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 | Colleen Goko The top 100 grocery retail companies in the world chose to focus their expansion efforts on Africa and the Middle East in 2015, even as countries in this region struggled with adverse economic conditions... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews A customer buys meat and vegetables from your store. He goes home, eats that fresh produce, and contracts a serious illness. Possibly even dies. Here's how to prevent this nightmare from becoming a business reality... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews 'Shared-value sustainability' was a hot topic on the third and final day of the Consumer Goods Forum, with insights shared by Nestlé CEO and former Consumer Goods Forum co-chair, Paul Bulcke. read |
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 | The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to signal their commitment to a large-scale partnership for food safety at a gathering of the world's consumer goods industry leaders at the CGF Global Summit... read |
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 | The second Internationalisation of Retail study, from the Consumer Goods Forum and Planet Retail, has shown that major retailers are still becoming more international rather than less so - and at a surprisingly swift rate... read |
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 | The perception that emerging markets are no longer a source of future growth for retailers is a dangerous retail myth that needs to be dispelled, global consumer insights company Nielsen told the world's top consumer goods companies' CEOs at The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit earlier this week... read |
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 | Louise Marsland Five things you need to know about the future of the retail market in sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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 | Colleen Goko Customers still prefer to shop in bricks-and-mortar stores in SA, but this pattern of consumption is being disrupted and reconfigured by the internet... read |
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 | Louise Marsland There are many reasons to invest in Africa and even more reasons to believe in Africa, international delegates were told at the Consumer Goods Forum global summit in Cape Town... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews With customer expectations driving rapid change across the consumer goods and services industry, increasing the demand for innovative and personal experiences, it's time to welcome the era of living services... read |
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 | leigh andrews Take an overabundance of FMCG products, add limited shelf space, as well as more competition from retailers' own labels and more frequent change of products stocked by retailers, and retailers and manufacturers alike need a radical new approach to maintain their market share. read |
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 | A survey of 400 consumer goods retail and manufacturing executives from 27 countries has revealed that companies that want to keep in front of change and secure competitive advantage are transforming themselves into fully integrated 'omni businesses'... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Facebook's not just for socialising with friends and family, it's also a cutting-edge way for marketers to communicate with consumers in the most personal way possible. Here's how... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant The Sunday Times Youth Marketing Conference, which took place on Friday, 10 June, opened with a keynote by Justin Levin, MD of HDI Youth Marketeers, providing an overview of the 12th Sunday Times Generation Next survey... read | |
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 | Fifi Peters Steinhoff International, after revealing itself as the mystery buyer of a sizeable stake in UK retailer Poundland, had by Thursday snapped up 23% of the discount store chain... read |
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 | Robert Laing Steinhoff confirmed on Wednesday it is the mystery buyer of a controlling stake in UK retailer Poundland... read |
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 | Having a good business reputation is essential for survival in the market place and is one of the most significant assets an organisation can have... read |
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 | Robert Laing Brait, the owner of UK chains New Look, Virgin Active and Iceland Foods along with South African fast moving consumer goods group Premier, reported on Tuesday that its net asset value per share grew 76.7% to R77.12 over the year to end-March... read |
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 | Johan Dekker Electronic Fund Transfers may be one of the older payment methods on the block, but thanks to fraud and crime they are experiencing a revival... read |
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 | Previously a forgotten market - and especially in one of South Africa's poorest provinces, the Eastern Cape - townships were formerly dominated by informal traders and spaza shops... read |
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 | Alistair Anderson Rebosis Property Fund's proposed R6bn deal with developer Billion Group is being queried by some investors who feel the group is overpaying for certain assets... read |
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 | MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet has announced a new partnership through which loot.co.za, one of South Africa's top-five online retailers, will join the fundraising initiative that raises millions of rand for schools and charities every year... read |
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 | Exiting social investment programmes can be a highly sensitive and difficult process for donors, grantees and beneficiaries... read |
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 | Sara Maggioni, director of retail of WGSN, the trend authority, recently presented the Spring/Summer '17 Buyers Briefing at Source Africa, which presented key fashion trends for the season ahead, backed by extensive data... read |
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 | Colleen Goko The Foschini Group's (TFG's) CEO, Doug Murray, will reach retirement age in March 2017, but the company is in no hurry to see him go... read |
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 | Marc Hasenfuss Bounty Brands, the fast-growing consumer products distributor controlled by investment company Coast 2 Coast, has taken a big step towards securing foreign and local listings by snagging acquisitions worth a collective R1.2bn... read |
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 | Crumbs & Cream, Cape Town's only ice cream sandwich store, is offering a franchise opportunity. Crumbs & Cream enables customers to create their own ice cream sandwich using freshly baked cookies and gelato... read |
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 | Issued by Pyrotec During May, Pyrotec PackMedia held an Open Day for its agrochemical customers to reinforce the benefits of Pyrotec PackMedia's informational Fix-a-Form booklet label, among other brands in the company's stable... read |
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 | Issued by Pyrotec The Markem-Imaje 9028 small character inkjet coder is engineered to offer you market-leading technology that is simple and easy to operate... read |
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 | Issued by Pyrotec Pyrotec PackMark offers a wide range of high-performance coding and labelling solutions specifically engineered for fast, accurate and reliable packaging lines in the food and beverage industry... read |
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 | Colleen Goko JSE-listed Massmart has not given up the fight against lease exclusivity clauses which have hampered its expansion in malls around the country... read |
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 | Louise Marsland The influential Consumer Goods Forum summit was held in Africa for the first time - these are the top trends emerging... read |
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 | OLX has embarked on an advertising campaign to reposition the brand to create a more emotional connection with South Africans... read |
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 | Pasqua Heard In the weeks running up to Father's Day on 19 June, Cape Union Mart launched the 'Home of the Father's Day Gift' campaign, with the slogan 'Celebrate Dad-ventures'. read |
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 | Issued by Knowledge Resources Doing business with the poor is unavoidably complex. Here is your opportunity to get fresh perspective and real insights on how to reach, connect and serve SA's mass market and low-income consumers... read |
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 | Ntsakisi Maswanganyi Retail sales moderated more than expected in April compared to a year ago, strongly signalling that household spending and economic growth will slow in 2016... read |
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 | WASHINGTON - US consumers spent slightly more than expected in May after a strong surge in retail sales the prior month, official data showed Tuesday... read |
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 | Daniel Bruwer, Issued by Field Office Most sales managers dream of a more effective and efficient sales team. Luckily, every now and then a new tool surfaces that has the ability to nudge that team further in the right direction... read |
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 | BT has announced that it is working with Gallerie Commerciali Italia to create new digital customer experiences for shoppers in Italy... read |
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 | John Sanei I was inspired by Elon Musk in his recent interview at the Code Conference, where he was saying that games in the next five years will be pretty much exactly like real life... read |
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