Nando's, a South African grilled-chicken chain, chose UAC Restaurants, part of a Nigerian conglomerate, to run its franchise, even though UAC owned a fast-growing rival chain, Mr Biggs.The idea of growing through acquisitions needs to be treated with considerable caution.
A local favourite is UAC, a food company with interests in paint and property, which has doubled in value in the past year.
Another firm from the UAC stable, Sukhoi, has until now been selling its smaller Superjet mainly in Russia and other former eastern-block countries.
What Irkut will do instead is undecided.Hard graftMaking the MC-21 fly is a matter of national pride, so UAC can rely on the government's support.
Sophos' Chester Wisniewski, said engineers loaded a full version of Microsoft's recently launched operating system, and configured it to follow system defaults for UAC (User Account Control) without installing an anti-virus package.
Ten samples of net nasties that arrived in the SophosLab security feed were tested to, as Wisniewski put it "see how well the newer, more secure version of Windows and UAC held up".
In November last year it emerged that the UAC was to change its national HIV/Aids campaign to make it more hard-hitting to combat rising infection rates.
The UAC acknowledges that, since the programme's launch in 2010, it has not been formally scaled up nationally, and effective linkages between it and other HIV services have not been put in place.
