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A love affair with electronics Despite a slight decline in its performance year-on-year, Woolworths has again topped the RepTrak Pulse reputation survey, with Pick n Pay and Shoprite coming in at a close second and third, respectively. Euromonitor International has released new data on the global consumer electronics industry, indicating that wearable electronics are 'the next big thing', while the dynamic growth of tablets suddenly comes to a standstill. The Innovation Group's latest trend report serves as a snapshot of the latest innovations and what they reveal about the food and drink consumers of the future. And speaking of beverages, Taste Holdings has identified a 'conservative' market opportunity of more than 150 Starbucks outlets in South Africa, and forsees this growing to over 200 in the next five years. The first store opening will be in Gauteng and is scheduled for the first half of next year. Marion Marais unpacks the consumers' complex relationship with their smartphones, particularly in the retail space, where the hype surrounding mobile shopping has often failed to deliver sustainable returns. Then Lisa Reid says it's time to start planning your communication strategy for the festive season, and gives six specially curated tips to improve your marketing efforts. "Some of the foundations laid this time of the year, may well pave the way for a long-lasting future relationship with your customers," she says. Jessica Taylor, Retail Editor (@Biz_Retail)
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Taste Holdings, which has an exclusive master franchise agreement with Domino's Pizza International, said on Wednesday it had identified a conservative market opportunity of more than 150 Starbucks outlets in SA... Read | Sales of wearable electronics are projected to exceed 305 million units in 2020, making them the world's second-best-selling products behind smartphones... Read | Results from the latest EY/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Retail Survey signal a substantial deterioration in trading conditions in the retail sector during 2015Q3... Read | The Innovation Group - the innovation and futurism unit of J. Walter Thompson Intelligence - has revealed the future of food and drink in its latest trend report... Read | Lisa Reid Believe it or not, it's time to start planning your communication strategy for the 2015/16 festive season... Read | Dries Badenhorst In his twenties, Brett was in a junior position at the Edcon Group when he told his peers that he was going to be a director of a listed company by the age of 35. Although they scoffed at this declaration, he was not deterred, and achieved his goal at 31... Read | According to the 2015 RepTrak Pulse reputation survey, conducted by Reputation House, Woolworths' again ranks first at a score of 71.2, despite a slight decline compared to its performance in the 2014 survey... Read | Marion Marais Smartphones: the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing at night. The love affair between our smartphone and us knows no bounds, yet brands have been slow to capitalise on this relationship... Read | A new South African footwear chain, Tread + Miller has been launched... Read |
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 | The multi-billion-rand Rainbow Junction mixed-use property megaproject, anchored by a new R2.5-billion 94,000m² super-regional shopping centre, is gaining attention from investors and major developers wanting to co-develop or secure a stake in the project... read | | |
 | Mareli Smit I was recently introduced to a new way of looking at business and customers as a whole. As a marketer at heart, this paradigm shift took me by surprise as there was always the view that businesses should know their customers... read | | |
 | On the latest Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show, host Warren Harding interviewed Bridget von Holdt, Executive Director at Glasshouse Communications... read | |  | The UCS Solutions Beyond Retail 2015 conference, which took place recently in Joburg and Cape Town, provided challenging insights with a line-up of speakers that encompassed established and new pioneers in the retail industry, with special focus on embracing omnichannel and innovation... read | |  | For the 10th year, Cape Union Mart will host the screening of the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour films at Ster-Kinekor cinemas in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria... read | |  | Jade van der Spuy of the 1000 Hills Chefs School in KwaZulu-Natal has been named the 2015 Unilever Food Solutions Chef of the Year... read | |  | Issued by Global CX Day Be part of a global phenomenon that will feature a morning conference in Sandton and as the sun moves around the globe, you will have the opportunity to engage with CX professionals in nearly every country around the world!... read | | |
 | Three Durbanville Hills wines received the Grand d'Or (Double Gold) at the 2015 Michelangelo International Wine Awards: the 2015 Rhinofields Sauvignon Blanc, the 2014 Rhinofields Noble Late Harvest, and the 2013 Durbanville Hills Cabernet Sauvignon... read | |  | Piper-Heidsieck has expanded its range in South Africa with the introduction of two new variants, available from December 2015, and is offering the famous Christian Louboutin stiletto tasting flute as a complimentary gift to customers on purchase. T&Cs apply... read | |  | Mark Allix Tiger Brands said on Friday that CEO Peter Matlare has reached agreement with the board regarding "his decision" to step down as CEO. read | |  | A signature 10-year celebration Grappa, distilled in 2004 and left to mature in barrel for a decade, has been released to mark the 10th anniversary of the Dalla Cia Wine & Spirit Company... read | |  | Beyers Chocolate is launching a new premium range of luxury chocolates called 'The heart of chocolate'... read | |  | Ballantine's has created a Space Glass that is engineered to work in microgravity, with the assistance of James Parr who is convinced it heralds a new era of open-source space design and a landmark for the future of whisky... read | |  | The Durbanville wine region's Altydgedacht Estate, one of the oldest wine estates in South Africa, was crowned South Africa's top Cap Classique exponent at this year's Amorim Cap Classique Challenge... read | | |
 | By directly supplying South Africa's leading toy retailers, the move underscores Hasbro's strategy to build a stronger presence in emerging markets and will allow the company to build deeper partnerships with existing and new retailers and consumers in SA... read | | |
 | Issued by Rocket Creative South Africa's retail display industry encompasses an enormous scope of elements, product variations and applications with all major brands fiercely competing for the hotly contested retail space to grow their sales revenues... read | | |
 | The recent Ask Afrika Icon Brands survey identified certain social influencers and behavioural dynamics that are currently at play in the South African consumer market... read | | |
 | How We Wear Ours - an exhibition documenting jeans culture in today's South Africa - will next week showcase the work of Cape Town- and Joburg-based illustrators, photographers and stylists, on their interpretation of jeans culture in South Africa and in response to the G-Star's Spring/Summer '15 campaign question: 'How do you wear yours?' read | |  | Douglas Kruger Here is a curious thing about human thought and creative processes: If you apply no rules whatsoever, you will tend to get poor results. Present your people with a 'white page' and they generally won't know what to do with it... read | | |
 | Fifi Peters Delays in opening new outlets in Zambia and Tanzania this year will not hold back Botswana's largest grocer Choppies from achieving its 2016 growth target of operating 200 stores across sub-Saharan Africa... read | | |  | WASHINGTON - It's not just another iPhone launch. This time, Apple is pushing not only a new device, but what it says is a new relationship with its customers... read | | | More International | |
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 | Douglas Kruger If ever there were a contest to find the sexiest phrase in the lingo of innovation, I would propose the term 'adjacent possible' for the crown... read | |
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