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| January 2007 |
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 COMPLIMENTS OF THE NEW YEar |
Welcome to the first newsletter of 2007.
From the entire Corporate Division of Diners Club International, may we wish you a very happy and successful new year. We sincerely hope that it will be an exceptional one for you.
We would also like to use this opportunity of expressing our sincere gratitude to you for the exceptional support you showed us last year.
For Diners Club, 2007 brings with it a highly motivated group
of new and experienced team members, ready to support and
deliver on our new pay-off line – “enabling solutions”.
This year will also see the introduction and rollout of new
corporate travel and entertainment solutions in line with
the changing face of the travel industry. The advent of low-cost
carriers and the need for Corporate online booking tools provides
one such challenge.
We will also be focussing our efforts on strengthening existing relationships across our customer base by identifying further customer requirements, tailoring solutions and streamlining our Customer Relationship Management.
We look forward to being of continued service to and working with you as this year’s many promises and challenges unfold.
With best regards,
The Diners Club Corporate Team |
| DINERS CLUB ADVANTAGE |
In our first newsletter, in November, we spoke about the launch our new online service called Diners Club Advantage.
In case you missed it, Diners Club Advantage is our new online business services application which gives all Corporate and Air Travel Card users access to their statements online at any time.
We are certain that Diners Club Advantage will make your lives easier, by providing you with even more convenience, improved efficiency and increased user flexibility.
Over the next few months we will be creating as much awareness
around Diners Club Advantage as possible, as well as encourage
you to make use of this additional value added benefit. A
specific section of our website, called the “Diners
Club Advantage Resource Centre”, has therefore been
dedicated to Diners Club Advantage. In this section you will
find downloadable training manuals, short demonstrations on
what the new product enhancement looks like and what it can
do for you, as well as other useful information. Simply click
here.
If you are interested in making use of Diners Club Advantage right now, please enquire with one of our relationship executives or speak to one of our consultants on 0860-DINERS (346377).
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| DINERS CLUB PRO-AM GOLF TOURNAMENTS |
Having so many of our Personal Card members involved with and enjoying golf as a leisure activity, Diners Club are committed to golf locally and internationally through sponsorship and tournament organisation.
One such event is the Diners Club Pro-Am Classic, an ideal opportunity for our Personal Card members to test their mettle against other members from around the world. This event is an annual event that constitutes the Grand Finalé at which the three amateur winners of the regional Diners Club Golf Tournaments compete alongside a carefully chosen professional for the Diners Club International Pro-Am Classic trophy.
First held in 1992, the tournament has since grown into one of the biggest and most successful events across the Diners Club global network. It is therefore with great delight that we announce that the next Diners Club Pro-Am Classic Tournament will be held at Sun City from Monday 29 October to Friday 2 November, 2007.
Regional Diners Club Golf Tournaments:
Cape Town Event:
27th March 2007 – Steenberg Country Club
Durban Event:
16th March 2007 – Zimbali Country Club
Johannesburg Event:
6th March 2007 – Johannesburg Country Club – Woodmead Course |
| WINNING WINEMAKERS |
Since the establishment of the Diners Club Winemaker of the Year Awards in 1981, it has become one of the most important events on the local wine calendar. This year the category was Chardonnay, which remains to be the most popular white wine variety, worldwide.
A total of 127 entries were received, of which 58, ranging from 2002 to 2006 vintages, made it past the first round.
This year’s coveted title of Winemaker of the Year went to Franschhoek winemaker, Gottfried Mocke, for his Chamonix Chardonnay Reserve 2005.
As for the Diners Club Young Winemaker of the Year Awards, which has been running since 2001 and is open to winemakers aged 30 years and younger, this year’s category was Dry Red Wines. The competition attracted 62 entries, comprising an interesting variety of blended and single varietal reds.
The winner was Francois Agenbag with his 2004 Seven Oaks 6+1 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz. Francois created this blend at Mountain Ridge in the Wolseley, Breedekloof region and the wine triumphed on the basis of complexity and maturity.
Excellent news all-round for winemakers and wine lovers alike is the fact that Diners Club International is committed to continuing its encouragement of South African winemakers in their quest to produce fine wine of ever-increasing quality. Cheers! |
| COMPLEAT GOLFER SUBSCRIPTION OFFER |
Compleat Golfer is the only South African golf magazine written entirely by South African golfers, for South African golfers. If you are keen to find out what’s happening on and off the fairways, get all the local and international golf news, views, tournament previews and reviews, as well as equipment tests and expert instruction, then a Compleat Golfer subscription is a must.
This year Diners Club has sponsored the very exciting Compleat Golfer Fitness Guide which won the Sappi Pica award for the "Best Consumer Magazine Supplement" in 2005. The fitness guide contains the latest breakthroughs from the world’s first golf fitness summit held recently in America. The guide is available in the February edition of Compleat Golfer.
Diners Club, in collaboration with Compleat Golfer, have arranged a special subscription offer for Diners Club members.
Subscribe to Compleat Golfer magazine
for 12 issues and receive a 40% discount on the retail price.
You pay an exclusive rate of only R187,00.
In order to subscribe at this exclusive Diners Club subcription
price, call 0860 100 205, or email smart@rsp.co.za and quote
the reference code 10003684.
Terms and Conditions: This offer is not open to the general
public.The offer is valid until 31 December 2007. Subcription
prices are subject to cover price increases however the percentage
of discount will stay the same for the duration of the offer.
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| KNOW YOUR DINERS CLUB BENEFITS |
Being a Diners Club member provides you with many exclusive benefits and services, both in a business or personal capacity. One such service is the Diners Club Concierge Service.
Traditionally the service of a Concierge is associated with travel and travel related activities, however, this is not the case with the Diners Club Concierge Service.
Developed around the needs of our members’ busy jobs and lifestyles, the Concierge Service is a complimentary service that was introduced to assist with sourcing, booking and fulfilling your lifestyle and business requirements – no matter whether you need secretarial services, conference assistance or business equipment hire, locally or internationally.
Manned by highly efficient and dedicated staff, that, just like a hotel concierge, ensure that your requests are fulfilled seamlessly and with minimal fuss through a network of professional resource companies contracted to our Concierge Service.
Some of the services offered by the Diners Club Concierge Service are:
Hotel Referral and Reservation Assistance
Dining Referral and Reservation Assistance
Flight reservations
Business Equipment and Conference Assistance
Arranging Secretarial Services
Special Events, Performance and Entertainment Assistance
Tourist Information
Gift arrangement and delivery
Golf Course Referral and Reservation Assistance
Shopping Location Information
Flower Delivery Assistance
Emergency Services
And much, much more.
For more information on our dedicated Concierge Service contact our Member Service Centre on 0860-DINERS (346377). |
| WHINING AND DINING |
Let us have it and
we’ll let you have a copy of dine
2007.
Be one of the first 200 people to tell us what you think of our new Corporate e-Newsletter and we will compensate you for your time with a copy of the, “hot-off the presses”, 2007 dine, SA’s foremost restaurant guide retailing at R 69.99 in stores.
There are almost 400 restaurants reviewed in dine, singled out by editor Justine Drake and her team for providing a memorable dining experience.
Restaurants are listed alphabetically by region and according to cuisine, whether fine dining, contemporary classic, contemporary funk or lovely local, with assessments given in terms of the quality of food, service, winelist, ambience and value, plus guidelines as to the average cost of a two-course meal.
The guide also includes a chapter showcasing the best steakhouses in the country, and another on French food terms.
So send us an email and you’ll never have to eat a bad
meal again. Please be sure to include your postal address in
the email.
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