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Cross-border trade ripe for exponential growthA recently published PayPal report revealed that cross-border online spend is on the rise. In South Africa alone, 43% of online consumers stated that they shopped online from websites in another country in the past 12 months. As such, a wealth of new opportunities exists for merchants and retailers to expand their international sales. Focused on exactly this, the third eCommerce MoneyAfrica Confex kicked off in Cape Town on Wednesday, bringing together key decision makers in online retail, payments, customer insight and logistics businesses operating across Africa. Chris Folayan, CEO of online retail giant Mall for Africa, was in attendance and in his keynote shared highly practical advice on facilitating a superior international online shopping experience - which you can read about in today's top story. In #DesignMonth news, I chat to Nicki Ellis, owner of boutique homeware and décor studio Love Milo, who lets us in on what it takes to create locally-sourced, eco-friendly design that's easy on the eye. Here's to a productive and profitable week! Lauren Hartzenberg Retail Editor: Bizcommunity.comComment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your retail news and event invitations to retailnews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-retail@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
| | [Lauren Hartzenberg] As the CEO of the continent's largest online shopping platform, Nigeria-born Chris Folayan knows a thing or two about creating online experiences... read |
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| Massmart, majority owned by WalMart, announced its full-year results for the 52 weeks to December 2016, indicating good margin management and astute expense control... read | | |
| Leigh Andrews Ann Nurock, who normally does the interviewing for us as roving reporter at local and international creative award shows like Cannes Lions, One Show and the Loeries, is also Africa partner for Relationship Audits and Management or RAM's Radar. Here, Nurock shares more about her day job and how Radar clarifies agencies' understanding of their relationships with clients... read | |
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