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Air Namibia unfazed by Eurowings competition
Air Namibia says it is not losing sleep over the competition posed by the arrival of low-cost airline, Eurowings, which had its maiden flight on the Cologne/Bonn-Windhoek route on Wednesday. Eurowings,...
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Bokomo expects maize price to remain stable
Food manufacturer and distribution company, Bokomo Namibia, has projected that the maize price will remain stable this year on account of a good harvest in the country and in neighbouring South Africa....
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Namib Poultry to import parent stock from the Netherlands
Namib Poultry Industries (NPI) plans to import breeding parent stock for its chicken products from the Netherlands following an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu in South Africa, its...
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Workshop explores new models for tourism funding
The Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) held a regional workshop on tourism’s economic contribution and funding possibilities in Swakopmund on 10-11 June 2017. One of the goals of the workshop was to discuss...
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Pan-African private higher education network launched
Honoris United Universities, the first pan-African higher private education network, was launched in London on Tuesday, with Luis Lopez appointed as its Chief Executive Officer. The network, built upon...
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Vihanga provides easy solution for tracking lost items
Many people have lost valuable items such as national identity documents and academic qualifications, which sometimes take forever to replace.If you are one of the people that have been inconvenienced...
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Bids start pouring in for SME Bank - liquidators
Prospective buyers have started expressing interest in taking over the troubled SME Bank, barely a week after the lender was placed under provisional liquidation, the Windhoek Observer has learned. The...
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Vivo expands quick service restaurant mfootprint
Vivo Energy Namibia has expanded the number of its Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) outlets to 16 across major towns in the country, including the Chicken Inn and Pizza Inn brands. This follows the...
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Hilda gets 10 percent stake in Choppies
The Windhoek Observer can exclusively reveal that media personality, Hilda Basson-Namundjebo, is the local partner in the soon-to-be-opened multinational grocery retailer, Choppies. Basson-Namundjebo...
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Insurance industry rattled by changes to NamibRe Act
The insurance industry has started submitting written objections to the Ministry of Finance’s plans to make it mandatory for companies to pay 18 percent of their monthly income to the Government...
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Boxman making inroads in Namibia
Boxman Windhoek is a franchise company that supplies a specialised range of boxes and related products to customers when relocating.The company also offers packaging material and other related...
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Govt tread lightly on Air Namibia’s Frankfurt route
Government is still to decide whether to order Air Namibia to continue or scrap the Windhoek-Frankfurt route on which it is losing N$300 million per year, Public Enterprises Minister, Leon Jooste, said...
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FNB Whisky festival a great success
The two-day FNB Whisky Festival held last weekend can only be described as a great success, FNB Namibia Marketing Manager, Madri van Wyk, has said. “On Saturday night, we hosted over 800 visitors who...
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RMB Namibia shows appetite for energy projects
RMB Namibia, which recently financed AEE Power Ventures’ 5MW solar power plant, says it is eager to finance more renewable energy projects in the country. AEE Power Ventures is an international power...
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Ashburton sitting on N$11,5bn assets
Recently launched asset management company, Ashburton, has assets worth almost N$11,5 billion, with N$8,37 billion being assets under management while N$3,06 billion are assets under advice, Chief...
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Bank Windhoek refreshes brand
Bank Windhoek has launched its refreshed logo and brand proposition, as part of the evolution of its brand. The bank’s Managing Director, Baronice Hans, said in a statement that the rebranding, which...
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NUST Business School must be thought leader ‑ Villet
The-newly appointed director of the Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, Hylton Villet, has the famous ‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ picture in...
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Mungunda talks about US experience
Standard Bank Chief Executive, Junius Mungunda (JM), recently returned from a two-month study leave in the United States of America.The Windhoek Observer’s Chamwe Kaira (CK) sat down with him at the...
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Angola slowdown hits Vukile
Vukile Property Fund says its portfolio in Northern Namibia has been affected by the perennial drought and the slowdown in cross border trade with Angola. According to asset manager, Kobus Ferriera,...
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Westair unit vends MultiChoice services
Airtime City, a unit of the Westair Group, has taken up the void left by the suspension last month of a vending agreement between MultiChoice Namibia and MobiPay, by launching a competing product. The...
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