Woolworths said on Thursday it was expanding its casual and sports leisure wear ranges to reduce reliance on formal wear...
Nqobile Dludla 2 days ago
Woolworths reported a 58.3% jump in first-half profit, its first in five years...
Truworths will open approximately 15 Primark stores over the next few months - a mix of standalone stores and others located in existing Truworths-owned stores...
South African retailer Massmart said on Friday it was planning further store closures and flagged a deeper full-year net loss of more than R1.7bn after curbs related to the Covid-19 pandemic hammered sales...
Food Lover's Market has launched its Seeds Of Change Supplier Development Partnership to create opportunities for social enterprises to join the fresh produce retailer's network as a supplier...
While online shopping in South Africa was already seeing noteworthy gains before Covid-19 hit, the past 10 months has seen it go through the roof...
Issued by imagineNATION Alliance 29 Jan 2021
While the South African population is much more comfortable shopping in-store, retailers and brands still have a ways to go in making up for the losses experienced as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Issued by Smart Media 21 Jan 2021
Here are eight key trends that will affect online retailers in 2021 from Craig Bellingham, founder and CEO of Studio[K]irmack...
Issued by Studio[K]irmack 19 Jan 2021
A high-level look at how innovation and agility could reshape one of SA's juggernaut industries...
Matthew Leighton 5 Jan 2021
Covid-19 has certainly rocked the boat of retail with an immense force this year. But as we have seen with the recent Black Friday period, there is no reason to jump ship when you have a solid, seamless online sales strategy in place...
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Despite the Covid-19 doom and gloom, there are some silver linings. For starters, the pandemic has emphasised the interconnectedness between people, the planet, and profit. It has also heightened our sense of urgency to collectively mobilise our efforts to implement more sustainable practices...
Christelle Marais 10 Dec 2020
For brands, this is the best alternative value investment in a retail and wholesale store because it is the most secure and regulated means of carrying out FMCG branding mandates in a much more affordable and longer lasting way...
Issued by MegaVision Media 9 Dec 2020
Smart-Cnnect has expanded training through its app to retail clinic nursing practitioners starting November 2020...
Issued by Smart Media 8 Dec 2020
Canal Walk Shopping Centre has boosted its customer services with a new click and collect pickup point powered by Pargo...
Largely due to global supply chain disruptions brought about by Covid-19, more big South African fashion brands are committing to producing fashion at home. What are the implications?...
Issued by Lontana Apparel 16 Nov 2020
The USAID TradeHub is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced marketing agency to assess the most important marketing needs of selected regional export firms to enhance their capability to lure South African buyers...
The Medicare Health group of pharmacies are now training their staff using the Smart-Cnnect app, a digital staff training mobile application that is fully customisable to an array of environments...
Issued by Smart Media 10 Nov 2020
Retailers need to revise their approaches to ensure safer sales and customers in the time of Covid-19...
Insight Survey's latest SA Probiotics Industry Landscape Report 2020 carefully uncovers the global and local probiotics market (including the impact of Covid-19) based on the latest information and research...
Issued by Insight Survey 9 Nov 2020
Bronwyn Williams, partner at Flux Trends, interviewed Preston Gaddy at the Alinea Marketing Master Class to find out about future retail trends...
What struck Bronwyn Williams in Henry Kissinger's World Order was the absence of Africa in the grand narrative of human strategy and struggle...
Bronwyn Williams 16 Oct 2020
Pick n Pay has recruited 20 of its largest food and manufacturer suppliers to join the 10x20x30 initiative, a global private-sector project, to significantly combat in-store and supply chain food waste by 2030...
To hear some industry commentators tell it, Covid-19 is going to be the final nail in the coffin of retail as we know it. At best, they're over-simplifying. At worst, they're just wrong...
Lee Naik 13 Oct 2020
There's been a massive shift from all things physical to the digital space given the Covid-19 pandemic, and this year's Black Friday will be no different...
E-commerce will permanently benefit from people wanting to, or being forced to, socially distance themselves. One of the sub-sectors in this space is online grocery shopping...
Ross Jenvey 22 Sep 2020
The reimagined retail space now offers free Wi-Fi and a kids' play area, and incorporates innovations such as self-checkout counters and QR codes on products that link to Game's online store...
Behind the door of a nondescript warehouse unit in Wynberg, north of Johannesburg, lies a microcosm of how we are going to buy food for the foreseeable future...
Rael Levitt 17 Sep 2020
Dianna Games, chief executive of Africa @ Work shares some important things to consider when looking to do business in the African market...
Jessica Tennant 16 Sep 2020
In-store advertising specialists Smart Media are proud to announce another in-store digital innovation; the double-sided digital hanging boards...
Issued by Smart Media 16 Sep 2020
Shoprite Holdings plans to dispose of its Kenyan operations, and close its remaining two stores in the East African country by year-end...
From toilet paper in Australia to pasta in Italy and condoms in France, countries have noted interesting patterns of demand in the world of fast moving consumer goods...
Tetra Pak Southern Africa continues to adapt its value chain to support the circular economy and meet growing demand for sustainable packaging from retailers and food and beverage producers...
Foschini and Markham owner TFG announced that it has successfully negotiated and concluded an agreement to buy select assets of value clothing retailer Jet from Edcon...
While considerable effort has already been made, massive growth in the local market is needed to diversify South African cotton into new markets...
Cobus de Bruyn 11 Aug 2020
The Shoprite Group is exiting Nigeria after 15 years. The Cape Town-based company announced the decision in a trading update this week...
Game's vice president shares how the retailer has navigated business challenges and opportunities over the last 50 years, and how it aims to remain relevant beyond 2020...
Lauren Hartzenberg 30 Jul 2020
Smart-Cnnect is the brainchild of in-store advertising innovator Smart Media's partnership with e-learning provider Cnnect™, created to train and upskill Dis-Chem pharmacy staff on the move...
Issued by Smart Media 28 Jul 2020
Stats SA reports that South African retail sales plunged by a record 50.4% in April and 12% in May.
TFG has entered into an agreement to buy certain "commercially-viable stores and selected assets" of Jet from embattled Edcon for a cash purchase consideration of R480m...
Parts of South African retail chain Edgars may be sold to Edcon competitor Retailability Ltd, business rescue practitioners in charge of Edcon's restructuring said...
Popular South African retailer Game celebrates 50 years of trade this year...
The V&A Waterfront is partnering with Pargo, a click and collect service provider, to offer an alternative for shoppers who want to avoid possible exposure to Covid-19 by queuing in shops, but who still want to collect their own goods...
More than 50 South African retailers have banded together to form the Mid-Sized Independent Retailers (MIR) Group...
Covid-19 is driving significant changes in customer experience, supply chains, health and hygiene, and employee engagement, according to the Deloitte Consumer Sentiment in Grocery Retail report...
Pepkor is supporting the fight against Covid-19 by donating a portion of senior leadership's salaries to relief efforts and having its clothing manufacturing division produce face masks...
Tiendeo has launched a tool on its platform that allows South African consumers to know the waiting time in queues at the supermarkets closest to them...
The global Covid-19 pandemic has made its presence felt in South African retail and consumer-focused businesses...
The government has gazetted special regulations that encourage retail tenants to meet with shopping mall owners...
Marie-Lou Gillespie 2 Apr 2020
In-store advertising innovator Smart Media has partnered with e-learning provider Cnnect to launch a game-changing new way to train all Dis-Chem pharmacy staff on the move...
Issued by Smart Media 31 Mar 2020