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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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| | The Foschini Group (TFG) on Friday, 16 January 2015, announced that it had acquired 85% of UK clothing chain Poppy Holdco - which trades under the name Phase Eight - for £238m... read more>>
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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 >> | Val Bourdos Nichas In today's turbulent economic times, both franchise brands and franchisees need understand key fundamentals driving today is operating environment... Read more >> | Business decision-makers should be asking themselves how they can respond quickly to fast-changing customer demand, how they can contain or reduce escalating costs and how they can enter emerging markets without substantially increasing their risk... Read more >> | Wholesale trade sales decreased by 8.1% year on year (y/y) in November 2014‚ Statistics SA data showed on Thursday, 15 January 2015... Read more >> | In a new study, PCI Films Consulting analysed 15 emerging flexible packaging markets, which currently account for over 20% of global demand... Read more >> | Donovan Marais Card fraud is rampant in South Africa, and growing at an alarming rate. This year, losses due to credit card fraud have increased by 23% to R453.9 million... Read more >> | Old Mutual Life Assurance and Business Venture Investments, represented by Pareto Limited, have entered into an asset swap transaction involving major shopping centres, Menlyn Park and Cavendish Square... Read more >> | Retail trade sales came in better than expected in November 2014 compared with a year ago (y/y)‚ increasing by 2.6% after increasing by a revised 3.2% (3.4%) y/y in October... Read more >> | The Nedbank Accolades system, powered by beacon and smartphone app technology, is a mobile platform that connects the retailer to the customer through proximity-based services... Read more >> | Jaco Barnard New technologies such as cloud computing are revolutionising the way people do business across the globe. In the African market, infrastructure has traditionally proven to be a challenge that has hindered adoption of new technologies... Read more >> | Sid Peimer We ask customers how satisfied they are, because we think that satisfaction means profitability and growth. That's not necessarily true... Read more >> | Stephen Sandmann I consider the power of smell to be the most intriguing of all the senses. It is a scientific fact that humans can remember about 10,000 distinct odours and, in turn, these can trigger important memories... Read more >> | According to a new report from Accenture, titled Engaging the Digital Consumer in the New Connected World, most consumers experience challenges using several new types of smart high-tech devices... 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>> | |  | 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>> | | |
 | Gillian Jones Steinhoff's R62.8bn acquisition of Pepkor was the highest-valued deal in Africa and the Middle East in 2014, a year that saw the level of global mergers and acquisitions return to post-crisis numbers... read more>> | | |
 | Pinnacle Africa, one of Southern Africa's largest ICT distributors, recently took the wraps off its first branded phone, the Proline SP4, available to the market from 30 January 2015... 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>> | |  | Cindy Preller The much-anticipated Baywest Mall in Port Elizabeth will be finished by April 2015... read more>> | | |
 | Michael Shabalala, Gogo Hazel Myezo and Boitumelo all feature in Nivea's new television commercial which flighted nationally from 5 December 2014... read more>> | | |
 | Leigh Andrews Nicolette Singh, Marketing Lead, Avanade South Africa, talks us through what the new CIMO role actually means for the marketing and IT industry alike... read more>> | | |
 | The continuous boom in global online shopping comes off the back of innovative encryption and security upgrades by leading payment gateway providers... read more>> | | | | | | | | |
 | Celebrate the 2015 grape harvest with Grand Provence on Saturday, 28 February at its annual Harvest Festival... read more>> | | |
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 | 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>> | | |
 | Helmo Preuss SA's bulk export volumes rose 2.6% in 2014 to a record 156.5-million tons (Mt)‚ data from the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) showed on Tuesday, 13 January 2015... read more>> | | |
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 | On the very first Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show of 2015, show host Warren Harding interviewed Warren Venter from M4JAM and Louise Marsland about BizTrends2015... 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>> | | | | | | |
 | The holiday period is peak season for gadget upgrades, and this usually means that in January some of these people will be looking to offload their older gadgets, too... read more>> | |  | Acer has announced it will be including the fifth generation Intel Core Processors across its mobile lines, starting with its line of R13 convertible notebooks and award-winning S7 Ultrabooks... 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>> | |  | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: The phrase is used so often it has become a cliché - Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas - and it was hit by a devastating earthquake, but some see potential... read more>> | |  | LONDON, UK: It's a brand new year that is likely to bring a brand new set of challenges for marketers to get their heads around... 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>> | |  | 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>> | |  | President Jacob Zuma will lead a South African delegation of Cabinet Ministers and business leaders to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, from 20-24 January 2015... read more>> | | Bianca Capazorio | | | | Sebastian Buckup | | Mfundo Piti | | Zhann Meyer | | Franny Rabkin | | | | | | | | Nan Smith | | Mphumzi Zuzile and Bongani Fuzile | | Natasha Marrian | | | | Carol Paton | | | More Government news | |
|  | Brian Berkman You're visiting Washington DC, right... so what better than to visit The Ritz-Carlton Club - and yes, it's a good as it sounds... read more>> | | | More Travel news | |
| Scan Retail's Johannesburg team is looking for an account executive to liaise with clients and oversee retail display projects, from conceptualisation and design through to manufacture and installation. Read more >>
| | | Africa's Big SevenExhibition Management Services (Pty) Ltd - 21 Jun 2015 to 23 Jun 2015 Midrand | | Book your seat! PayU's Digital Security and Fraud Management Seminar. An informative session by payment experts to help protect your business and your customers from online fraud. Read more >> | | |
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