Creative designs drive the Cape
Posted on January 31, 2008
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Cape design exports - ranging from recycled bottle top mats to bed linen - are being snapped up from Mumbai to Hong Kong and are increasingly contributing to local job creation and wealth generation.
UNESCO estimated international trade in cultural goods and services at $387 billion in 1998, according to the dti’s 2007 Craft Sector Development Strategy document. Many creative industry sub-sectors are expanding by at least three times the average economic growth rate. In 1998 the five largest exporters of cultural goods and services were Japan, the USA, Germany, the United Kingdom and China.
Local creative industry export figures are difficult to ascertain, says the dti. But the SA craft sub-sector alone is estimated to contribute about R2 billion to GDP (0.14%) and provide jobs and income for over 38000 people through at least 7000 micro and small enterprises.
Crafts could contribute R5 billion to GDP and 20 000 more jobs by 2015 if supported by more targeted interventions.
Passenger Demographics
Posted on November 6, 2007
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Comprehensive CAA and BAA data has enabled us to put together detailed profiles together for each of our advertising concessions. These profiles provide passenger figure breakdown by airport, terminal, UK residency, ages, business/leisure and demographic profile.
Design Week - Creative Forum could return
Posted on November 1, 2007
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…For the past two years, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has been consulting with the design industry on a range of new measures to establish the UK as ‘the world’s creative broker’, including the establishment of the World Creative Economy Forum. Last year, the originator of the ill-fated WCF, John Sorrell, chaired a group on the Creative Economy Programme. The WCF ran for two years as the centrepiece to the London Design Festival before being shelved in 2005 due to low attendance and lack of funding. Like its predecessor, the new forum is described in the working group report as operating ‘in a similar way to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It will feature the UK’s expertise as a world leader in creative knowledge’.Unlike the WCF, the new conference will not suffer from under-investment, claims the source. ‘Luckily, there is no shortage of money for it, most of which would probably be from private investment,’ the source says.
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