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Sustainability Report

Big renewables financing push a highlight of bank’s sustainability report

Standard Bank Group (SBG) has recently released its 2012 ‘Sustainability Report’ and says its sustainability programmes are mutually reinforcing and have served the company well.

By: Joanne Taylor

17 May 13

WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

Standard Bank funds $126m Ghanaian desalination project

Financial services provider Standard Bank has arranged an international financing package for the development of a $126-million 60 000 cubic metres a day desalination plant in Accra, Ghana. Spanish infrastructure company Abengoa and the Sojitz...

By: Creamer Media Reporter

19 Feb 13

Eaton Towers

Company Announcement: Eaton Towers appoints executive team in Ghana

Eaton Towers, the African tower ownership and management company, has appointed Gareth Townley as Managing Director and Adnan Quddus as Chief Financial Officer of its Ghanaian operations

TELECOMS

Eaton Towers secures $30m for Ghana tower investments

Telecoms company Eaton Towers has secured a $30-million debt facility to boost its business of selling telecom tower co-location and shared-infrastructure facilities to mobile operators. The debt facility, a first for Eaton, would fund...

By: Natasha Odendaal

12 Jan 12

Standard Bank Group

Company Announcement: Standard Bank Group and Sable Chemicals to complete first Clean Development Mechanism project in Zimbabwe

Standard Bank Group has successfully contracted with, what is expected to be, the first Clean Development Mechanism project in Zimbabwe.

Standard Bank Group

Company Announcement: Competitive salaries are key to fighting poverty

Standard Bank Group Chief Executive Jacko Maree has committed 10% of his taxable income towards helping needy black scholars receive an excellent education. He will be doing this every year, at least for as long as the current personal tax...

PEOPLE

UK’s Vodafone appoints Sam Jonah to board

A former AngloGold Ashanti board member, Sam Jonah, has been appointed to serve as nonexecutive director on the board of UK-based mobile phone operator Vodafone from April 1. “I am delighted to welcome Sam Jonah to the Vodafone board. He will...

By: Creamer Media Reporter

27 Mar 09

BOTSWANA

Botswana diversification hampered by high costs

Botswana's economic growth is robust but it remains too dependent on mining, and high transport and communication costs are hampering diversification, delegates said at the inaugural Botswana Economic Forum on Wednesday. The southern African...

By: Reuters

11 Jun 08

Financial Services

SA companies to participate in high-level New York finance and technology event

A major conference on opportunities available to South African companies for international long-term debt financing, such as bond issues and private placements to permit domestic and international expansion, is to be held in New York at the end of...

By: Keith Campbell

15 Sep 06

Brewery and Winery Industry

SA companies penetrate deep into Kenya's corporate heartland

BC and AC – acknowledged abbreviations for Before Christ and After Christ – are important historical markers.

By: John Muchira

20 Jan 06

All

Standard Bank complex

Standard Bank has unveiled plans for a new regional office complex at Kingsmead Office Park, in Durban.

By: Sheila Barradas

14 Oct 05

Breaking News

Barloworld receives sustainability accolade

South African industrial goods company Barloworld has been rated among the top performing companies in the industrial goods category on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for the second year in succession.

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Karin Ireton Renewable Energy Renewable-Energy Standard Bank Group Abengoa Ghana Water Company Sojitz Corporation Stanbic Bank Ghana Standard Bank Capital International Private Equity Funds Eaton Towers Millicom Orascom Telecel Standard Bank Of South Africa Viasat Broadcasting Eaton Vodafone Ghana Sable Chemicals Education Development Bank Jonah Capital Lonmin Sentula Telkom Vodacom Vodafone Econsult Mining - Botswana Moody's Stanbic Bank Citigroup Eskom Morgan Stanley Old Mutual South African National Treasury Standard & Poor Transnet Webber Wentzel 20th Century Digital Satellite Television East African Breweries Limited Econet Wireless Kenya Cinema Kevin Wingfield Multichoice Nairobi Cinema National Bank Of Kenya Numetro Ol Donyo Sabuk Holdings Sheltam South African Breweries Stand-ard Bank Telkom Kenya Telkom South Africa Barloworld Bidvest Group	Africa	South Africa Ghana Japan Kenya Namibia Sierra Leone Tanzania Uganda Zimbabwe Nigeria United Kingdom Zambia Botswana China Columbia United States Sudan	Bank Energy Energy Suppliers Energy Use Greenhouse-gas Emissions Renewable-energy Projects Sustainability Management Infrastructure Finance Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Fertilizer Manufacturer Harmful Greenhouse Gas Productive Employment Coal-mining Mobile Phone Operator Electricity Mining Non-mining Transport Explore Technology Partnerships Finance Aggressive Advertising Food Steel Crisis Management Customer Relationship Management
Person	Technology	City	Currency
Ireton George Kotsovos Adnan Quddus Alan Harper Gareth Townley Peter Lewis Sanjiv Ahuja Terry Rhodes Jack Murehwa Jacko Maree John Bond Sam Jonah Ian Khama Keith Jefferis David Meachin Jabu Moleketi James D Wolfensohn James DnWolfensohn Lesetja Kga-nyago Maria Ramos Meyer Feldberg Papi Molotsane Thulani Gcabashe Andrew Greenwood KevinnWingfield Raphael Tuju Richard Ouma Roy Puffett None Mark Drewell	ATM Cellular Telephone CRM	Accra Kwekwe GABORONE New York DURBAN	USD
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Sierra Ghana Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa East Africa	New York University Stern SchoolnOf Business Dutch Development Agency English Soccer Premier League	British Columbia