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Trends and acquisitions We're already more than halfway through the first month of 2015 and there's one word on everyone's minds: Trends. On the subject today, Mike Sharman tells us that online influencers are the billboards of 2015; Euromonitor shares its 2015 consumer trends with us, as does Dion Chang. If you somehow missed our special Biz Trends 2015 edition, you can catch up with our special section here. In mergers and acquisitions this week, Old Mutual and Pareto will be trading shares for total ownership of Cavendish Square and Menlyn Park respectively, while The Foschini Group will be buying Phase Eight, a UK clothing chain, for a cool £238-million. Have a great week and keep trendy! Shan Radcliffe, Group Head - Retail (@Biz_Retail)
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Mike Sharman Influencer marketing, Africa and reaching the Millennials in the hidden, dark spaces they inhabit online, means brands need to enhance their cult status to win over Generation Z. Read more >> | According Euromonitor International's 'Top 10 Global Consumer Trends 2015' report, which was released Friday, consumers are maximising their time and money by finding products and services that combine multiple needs... Read more >> | Dion Chang Social activism and the underpinning of digital solutions to major market innovation will characterise this year, according to renowned South African trend analyst, Dion Chang... Read more >> |
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 | Adene van der Walt There are five key strategies that marketers and advertisers need to embrace in the following year. The key take out: deliver products that are up to date and innovative, while remaining true to your brand's core values... read more>> | |  |
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 | Bradley Maseko From personal brand differentiation, spending and media behaviour, to the trend of visual domination, 2015 will be an impactful year for the youth of South Africa... read more>> | |  | Louise Marsland It's all about me, you and what we want. Now. No waiting around. This is the year the consumer and content will dominate and brands learn the meaning of true collaboration... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by ACDOCOSA Following the launch of South Africa's first polyisoprene condom, shopper-centric brand-custodian distributor, ACDOCO South Africa has announced the availability of two new variants: SKYN Intense Feel and SKYN Extra Lubricated... read more>> | | |
 | Brendan Peacock The listed property sector on the JSE had a surprisingly good year in 2014, thanks to buoyant retail figures, relatively benign moves in the bond market and a weakened rand... read more>> | | |
 | The Honeymoon Fund is a new online wedding gift registry where the bride-and-groom-to-be can simply select a dream honeymoon and invite wedding guests to contribute towards the gift... read more>> | | |
 | In response to countless requests for a pink bubbly from ladies visiting its tasting room, Muratie has released its maiden Rosé Cap Classique, the Lady Alice 2012... read more>> | | |
 | The Foschini Group (TFG) said Christmas trading was above expectations with group sales growth of 12.5% for December 2014‚ the clothing retailer said in a sales update late last week... read more>> | |  | Clicks (CLS) on Friday, 16 January 2015, announced that Keith Warburton‚ an executive director and chief operating officer of the company‚ has resigned effective 31 March... read more>> | | |  | LONDON, UK: A UK publisher has been mocked over a ban (described as 'absolute utter nonsense') on pigs and sausages being mentioned in its children's books... read more>> | |  | PARIS, FRANCE: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has sold 1.9 million copies of its latest issue, which has provoked protests by Muslims around the globe over a new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed... read more>> | |  | ISTANBUL, TURKEY: Vilified by conservatives at home for standing by Charlie Hebdo after the Paris attacks, a Turkish satirical weekly is defiantly refusing to tone down its mockery of authority... read more>> | | | More International | |
|  | Martyn Davies Is Africa's development inevitable? The conventional assumption is that all countries and regions will develop - albeit at different speeds - and eventually graduate from "emerging economy" status into the ranks of the First World... read more>> | |  | Bianca Capazorio Eskom has lost more power capacity over the past year than it will be able to build over the next two years... read more>> | |  | South Africa's national power grid will once again come under tremendous pressure this month. It needs remedies that can come on stream quickly. And that's not nuclear... read more>> | | | More Government news | |
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