Cedar Park Hotel & Conference Centre are now proudly partnered with the Status Hotels group. Status Hotels currently boast 12 hotels within the group and plan on a steady growth. Their input will be to assist with the sales and marketing of the Hotel. We look forward to a long and rewarding partnership.

 

This is where it all started, an idea to spoil all our top lady clients. To thank them for all their support that they and their Companies have given to Cedar Park Hotel & Conference Centre in the past, and what a better way than to choose Secretaries Day High Tea to do this.

The event was always meant to be a whole girly-girl theme, and we believe that we achieved what we set out to do. All flowery, pink and feminine. Deluxe French Kir Royale on arrival or a Brutal Fruit slush if you fancied. Soft drinks were also on order.

Pre-Registration was the Order of the Day. Where awesome flower paperweights embossed with the Cedar Park logo and manufactured from recycled glass from Shades of Ngwenya Glass were handed out to all our guests as a ‘Thank You’ gift.

Chocolography were on display with their delectable and personalised Belgian chocolates, with samples to taste at all the table settings.

The conference room Serengeti I was decorated to the nines with pastel organza colours adorning the tables. Wonderful spring Gerberas were bursting from the centre piece. All the tables were served with two high tea stands filled with delectable delights, sweet and savoury, including Sushi. Espresso cups to compliment the high tea theme encompassed soy sauce along with ginger and wasabi to complete the picture.

Status Hotels & Cedar Park had a lucky draw where all attendees had the opportunity of winning wonderful weekend away prizes at there some of Status’s twelve hotels from within the group.

Andre the Hilarious Hypnotist followed where volunteers came up onto the stage and went under Andre’s hypnotic spell. Andre had the audience rolling on the floor in fits of laughter. Fun was had by all. Attendees, watch the post for your memorabilia CD!

Tide Turning for Small Business

Johannesburg - Small and medium-sized businesses have endured a long winter of discontent in South Africa, what with the recession and structural cost increases such as higher electricity tariffs. The good news, however, is that legislative changes and other sorts of government-backed intervention will make it easier to start a small business. In June, government hopes to pass an amendment to the Companies Act allowing cash-crimped business owners to place a moratorium on creditors. In essence, the amendment wants to give business a second change by buying it time to restructure. This legislative "tweaking" has been heralded by Neren Rau, CEO of the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI), as "broadly positive on the business regulatory landscape". In addition, the trade and industry department unveiled a payment assistance hotline on Monday, aimed at assisting the small and most vulnerable companies with late payments. Rob Davies, trade and industry minister, said late payments remained one of the biggest complaints of micro-, small and medium business enterprises (SMMEs).

"Although the Public Finance Management Act and treasury regulations require payment within 30 days of receiving the invoice, we know this does not always happen," said Davies. The hotline has been operating as a pilot since April and takes telephonic and e-mail queries from public sector SMMEs regarding late payments. So far, half of the 500 queries received have been resolved. "If they are late because of bureaucratic inertia and problems of that sort, then we want to know where this is happening," said Davies. The Industrial Developmental Corporation (IDC) and the Development Bank also try to rescue businesses during tough times. Industrial Sectors executive at the IDC, Shakeel Meer, said the IDC had R6.1bn to assist companies experiencing financial difficulty as a result of the economic crisis for the current and next financial years. "Approvals for funding can include moratoria on repayment of loans for a certain period to further assist the business to stand on its own legs," said Meer. Part of the funding could either be applied as working capital until the businesses' cash flow situation improves, or equipment that would improve the business' competitiveness, he said - Fin24.com

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. - Helen Hayes        First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful. - Lady Diana Cooper        Live your life and forget your age. - Norman Vincent Peale        To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - Oscar Wilde

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