Nando’s joins the Loeries to celebrate design Design from Africa and the Middle East finally gets the recognition it deserves with the expanded Nando’s Design category at the Loeries in 2019. This year’s category has been extended to recognise design from a much broader range of creative professionals. “We’ve expanded the design category beyond only brand communication to include areas of design such as retail furniture and product design, fabric, wallpaper, lighting, architecture and interior design, and even the design of signage programmes,” says Loeries CEO Andrew Human. He adds that the Loeries has long been recognised as the highest accolade in advertising and brand communication.

“A strong design award has been lacking for our region and this is a great opportunity for all designers to showcase their work and achieve recognition.” Design is woven into the Nando’s DNA, making Nando’s a natural partner for the Design category. “Design and creativity have been an intrinsic part of the Nando’s way of doing business.

Nando’s is the first local brand to collaborate with local designers at the scale it does,” says Deirdre King, Nando’s Brand Experience GM. She adds: “Putting our support behind the design community is important to doing business well. Our PERi-PERi power has charted new paths and careers for many local artists and their art. Putting that same fire behind the extended Design category for the 2019 Loeries gives us a chance to spice things up for the wonderful designers who will imprint their names onto this exciting category. According to Gaby de Abreu, Loeries board member and creative head of Switch Design, the awards are invaluable because they offer a chance for designers to showcase their work to a far greater audience.

“The Nando’s Design category at the Loeries is an opportunity to showcase excellence across disciplines in countries throughout Africa and the Middle East. For independent designers, it’s a unique chance to achieve recognition across the industry, reaching creatives internationally,” says de Abreu. “For a furniture designer working in an independent workshop or a graphic designer outside of the agency network, this year’s Loeries offers a chance to show the world what you’ve achieved,” he adds. The Nando’s Design category at the Loeries is open to designers across all the main disciplines. The entry deadline is 15 May and more information can be found on loeries.com.

About Nando's: While proudly South African, Nando’s is an international flame-grilling, PERi-PERi chicken restaurant group. We offer a twist of Afro-Portuguese with an upmarket and comfortable dining experience. Two friends, Robert Brozin and Fernando Duarte, opened the first Nando’s in 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa. All Nando's PERi-PERi chicken is marinated for 24 hours, locally sourced and never frozen, ensuring our customers only get the finest flavours.

Our unique PERi-PERi recipe includes herbs, spices, garlic, lemon juice and bird’s eye chilli. Nando's authentic PERi -PERi has captivated its customers all over the world, making it the largest South African restaurant group to expand internationally. DEADLINE FOR 2019 LOERIES ENTRIES EXTENDED TO MAY 31 About Loeries Africa Middle East: The Loeries, a non-profit company, is Africa and the Middle East’s premiere initiative that recognises, rewards, inspires and fosters creative excellence in the brand communication industry.

As the highest accolade for creativity and innovation across our region, the Loeries promotes and supports creativity by helping marketers, agencies and consumers appreciate the value of ideas and fresh thinking.

Culminating in the biggest creative gathering in Africa and the Middle East, Loeries Creative Week Durban brings together the best innovative minds from our industry for a festival of networking, inspiring minds and recognising great work. Our region's creative economy is world-class and has great potential to grow and to offer employment both to our talented youth. The growth occurring throughout Africa and the Middle East is very exciting, and a major focus of the Loeries is to increase the standard of brand communication in the region.

Major Partners of the Loeries: DStv Media Sales, Gearhouse Category Partners: AB InBev, Barron, Brand South Africa, Facebook, Gagasi FM, Google, JCDecaux, Nando’s, Tsogo Sun, Woolworths Additional Partners and Official Suppliers: AAA School of Advertising, Antalis South Africa, Aon South Africa, Backsberg, BEE Online, First Source, Fresh RSVP Guest Logistics, Funk Productions, Gallo Images, Grid Worldwide, Hetzner, Mama Creative, Newsclip, Paygate, Rocketseed, Shared Value Initiative, Shift Social Development, Vega School, VQI Communications Nigeria Endorsed by: Association of Communication and Design, Brand Council South Africa, Commercial Producers Association, Creative Circle, EXCA, IAB, South African Institute of Architects, IID Official Media Partners Between 10and5, Bizcommunity.com, Book of Swag, Brand Communicator Nigeria, Business Insider by Pulse, Campaign Middle East, Film & Event Media, Modern Marketing The Redzone. Twitter: @loeries Instagram: Loerieawards Facebook: The Loeries

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New book on Values-Based Leadership in the South African context launched.

Johannesburg, Gauteng February 18, 2019:  Dr Ashley Frank, successful executive coach to the C-Suite of the country’s largest corporations launched his new book in Johannesburg last night (February 17). This is the former business school professor’s third book, but his first aimed at the general reader. His previous books, case studies in Investment Valuation & Markets (both published by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press in 2003), were influential contributions to graduate teaching and welcomed by the academic and practitioner community alike.

Dr Frank’s current book provides a complete strategy for Chief Executives wishing to embed a values-based culture within their organisations. The book shows how moral obligation, when placed upon laws of leadership, result in a values-based culture, that should be rooted in values statements and lived in a corporation’s culture. It looks at several case studies to see how principles of Corporate Governance (and in particular the King Code) actually play out in society. And it offers a framework for understanding why traditional attempts to inculcate “business ethics” often fail. Unlike other books on the subject, it also considers corruption at the level of the state (political and bureaucratic officials), particularly since the public and private sectors often become intertwined at points of economic crime. It presents a complete strategy for any Chief Executive wishing to ground their leadership in moral authority, based on: assessing corporate culture, reviewing internal codes, removing conflicting objectives, being the change and practising mindfulness. Importantly, it discusses why Board support is vital to a Chief Executive and offers concrete suggestions as to how it can be engaged.

Speaking at the book launch Dr Frank explained the book’s title “Tunnel Out: A Challenge to South African Chief Executives” “The lay public may not quite get the full meaning of the book’s title but it’s a play on the word “Tunneling”, which is a colloquial term for financial fraud. Most importantly the book is written as a challenge to Chief Executives to take active steps to avoid incidents of corporate malfeasance. To this end it provides a step by step guide on how to implement a values-based culture within any corporation”. Values-based leadership is the idea that leaders should draw on their own and followers' values for direction and motivation. It’s a philosophy that observes that a person’s most natural motivators are their personal values, because these values lie at the core of a person’s identity. It is more natural for leaders to refer to their own values in creating a vision or making decisions and equally it makes sense for leaders to connect with their followers' values which makes them more likely to act. Richard Barrett, author of “Building a Values-Driven Organisation”, defines values-based leadership as "a way of making authentic decisions that builds the trust and commitment of employees and customers." Leaders who apply this philosophy are likely to experience certain inner benefits, such as making better choices (and feeling more comfortable to act upon them), building more trusting and avoiding stressful relationships with followers. The book argues that when both Chief Executives and employees feel aligned with their authentic selves, corporations can be both highly profitable as well as ethically responsible.

Dr Frank also explained the decision to launch the book in e-form only: “Digitisation is increasingly becoming the preferred way of making information available to as wide a readership as possible. We (the author and the publishers) wanted the book to be available internationally but accessible to readers in South Africa, without having them need to pay shipping and customs, to get a copy”.

The book is available for download at Amazon Kindle: https://amzn.to/2G0FTyd

Contact Mr. Eugene Barnabas at +27-(0)71-213-0653, to arrange a review copy or to interview the author.