aOverall spending for the Gulf of Mexico offshore industry in 2008 was over $28.5 billion which translated into a total GDP impact of over $30.8 billion This impact was felt throughout the country and supported over 305 thousand jobs nationwide. Approximately 90 thousand of those jobs were dire...
Darlene knows how to handle all the heavy-duty ranch equipment and perform the jobs solo; in fact, she did just that for two years while she remained at the ranch and Bill went to Oliver to set up for their move to the Okanagan. After their many years ranching in BC’s rugged Cariboo...
we have a carbon neutral hoofprint. We support the Kuyasa low-carbon housing project in one of the poorest and most vulnerable corners of Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa, that has created 85 full time jobs, mostly for women, youth and disabled persons, and over 2,...
Sorry, but you are wrong. I tasted a really marvelous port (fortified wine) called Landskroon when I was backpacking through the Western Cape with some multiracial chums… onMarch 21, 2008 at 5:36 amelvindeath You know, I just had a bottle of Spotteswood at a steakhouse a couple weeks ...
successive government bans put more than 21,000 wine jobs at risk, costing the government more than 5 billion rand ($340m) in tax revenue. Moreover, insiders estimate that at least 75,000 tourism and hospitality jobs were lost in 2020 in the Western Cape, due to travel bans and lockdown...
Creating Jobs from New Investment in the Wine Sector Martin PROKEŠ , Pavel TOMŠÍK Mendel Univ. Brno, CZ Terroir and Sustainability: The Role of Terroir in Sustainable Wine Standards Shana SABBADO FLORES Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BR SESSION 5b 11:00 – 13:00 WINE ...
“mountain magnetism” and the constant pull they felt to be amongst them. I met one professional who manages to mountaineer between office meetings. Yet everyone, from a winery’s brand export manager to the winemaker himself, spoke of vocational excellence, seemingly as fond of their jobs as...
We use data on 77 Western Cape Province wine grape farms from 2005-2015 to estimate the impacts on employment. Previous post-apartheid labour market reforms increased minimum wages substantially, but re-entry to global markets after sanctions were lifted increased demand and this preserved jobs in ...
but he doesn’t suggest that wine writing has lost its soul in the way that Guibert mourns the death of wine’s essence. Certainly it is difficult to earn a living writing about wine, especially with the decline in paid print-media jobs, he says. So wine writing has evolved into somethi...
(Before you think that means that this is an easy book, please note that simplifying something is extremely difficult. In the words of Steve Jobs, “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end ...