Kenyan agri-tech startup Twiga Foods has partnered IBM Research to extend access to microloans to 220 food stall retailers across Kenya using a blockchain-based financing system...
Tom Jackson 19 Apr 2018
With falling consumer confidence and a slow economic growth outlook, brands are intensifying the fight for consumer loyalty...
Nicholas Bednall 16 Apr 2018
Builders Warehouse embarked on its African expansion in 2011 and is about to open its seventh store on the continent and the third store in Mozambique...
11 Apr 2018
As store closures continue across the globe, we're witnessing the demise of physical retail as we know it...
Lauren Hartzenberg 26 Mar 2018
Artificial intelligence doesn't have to induce a Hollywood sci-fi dystopian nightmare in which robots take over the world. It may instead offer an exciting opportunity to connect consumers to your brand...
Maroefah Smith 16 Mar 2018
The proliferation of e-commerce essentially means that retailers are now more than ever competing in a global marketplace...
Lauren Hartzenberg 16 Mar 2018
Cross border e-commerce continues to provide significant growth opportunities for retailers and manufacturers with an international online product offering...
15 Mar 2018
Kenya is turning into an interesting battleground between South African grocery chain Shoprite and French rival Carrefour...
Robert Laing 15 Mar 2018
In the search to become 'more than a store', retailers in Africa need to put their customer at the heart of the operation, says Frans van der Colff...
Lauren Hartzenberg 9 Mar 2018
In Africa and the Middle East, the value of mergers and acquisitions transactions is expected to rise to $6.4 billion in 2018 and will continue to rise in 2019, to $6.6 billion...
1 Feb 2018
If you're searching for proof that retail as we know it is changing, look no further than Shanghai's 24-hour, unstaffed, self-driving grocery store...
Lauren Hartzenberg 29 Jan 2018
Shoprite's non-South African supermarket division recorded negative growth for the six months to December, owing to the effect of lower commodity prices...
Michelle Gumede 18 Jan 2018
Less than 30% of African e-commerce startups are profitable, as ventures tackle issues such as lack of funding, shortage of trust and logistical difficulties...
Gabriella Mulligan 8 Dec 2017
Kamoso, a Botswana-based retailer and consumer goods company, was acquired by a consortium that includes Investec Asset Management Private Equity, RMB Ventures...
24 Oct 2017