By Siyanda Mthethwa and Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG, March 13 (Reuters) - South Africa's SPAR Group is planning a chain of about 30 to 40 high-end grocery stores, with the first set to open in the fourth quarter of this year, an executive said on Thursday, as the retailer targets affluent shoppers. South African grocery retailers are increasingly tailoring stores to...

09:52 AM EDT, 03/13/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates to add Budweiser Brewing APAC's statement in the second paragraph and related changes throughout.) Anheuser-Busch InBev's ( BUD ) Asia-Pacific unit Budweiser Brewing APAC denied a recent report of planned job reductions on Thursday. The news report in Asia about thousands of job cuts planned for 2025 is not true. We will...

JOHANNESBURG, March 13 (Reuters) - Alphamin Resources ( AFMJF ) said Thursday its temporarily halting its tin mine in Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile eastern region as rebels advance toward the operations. The miner said activities at Bisie tin mine in Congo's North Kivu had been halted after insurgent militant groups have recently advanced westward in the direction of the...

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are undertaking a sweeping campaign to slash the size of the 2.3 million-strong civilian federal workforce, firing or offering buyouts so far to more than 100,000 employees. The layoffs to date have primarily been aimed at workers who have been in their current jobs for less than a year and have...