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Winning at retail A couple of big wins this week with Local Grill in Parktown North taking top honours in The Wolftrap Steakhouse Championships for the third time, and Woolworths' WRewards 'Are you with us' campaign having won the Best Loyalty Programme Marketing Campaign of the Year. The campaign, featuring Grammy award-winning musician, record producer and philanthropist, Pharrell Williams, enticed customers to join Woolworths' sustainability journey and make sustainability cool for the next generation of South Africans, and at the same time rewarding customers for their loyalty. In e-commerce, Clicks launched its online store, basing its new online offering on 18 months of solid research into how its customers prefer to shop, and positioning the retailer to support them in their digital pathway to purchase. While Serco, a manufacturer of insulated and dry freight fibreglass truck bodies, has been working closely with e-commerce retailer, Takealot.com, in its move to own and operate its own fleet of 22 customised delivery vehicles. Having a winning week! Jessica Tennant, Retail Editor (@Biz_Retail)
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Clicks has launched an online store and, according to COO Vikesh Ramsunder, the company has based its new online offering on 18 months of solid research into how its customers prefer to shop and what their needs are... Read | The Local Grill in Parktown North takes top honours in The Wolftrap Steakhouse Championships for the third time and last year's champion Little Havana in Umhlanga Rocks receives the 2016 Runner-Up award... Read | Woolworths has won the Best Marketing Campaign linked to Loyalty at the 2016 International Loyalty Magazine Awards ceremony, which took place in London earlier this week... Read | Mpact Polymers' new state-of-the-art, bottle-to-bottle operation that produces recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) will benefit waste reduction and job creation in SA... Read | Euromonitor International has published a new report entitled Apparel and Footwear in 2016: Trends, Developments and Prospects... Read | Serco worked closely with e-commerce retailer, Takealot.com, in its move to own and operate its own fleet of dry body vehicles. Takealot has large warehouses in... Read |
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 | Issued by Atmosphere PR Participants at the Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit in Cape Town have been given a taste of some of the disruption that is changing the consumer goods manufacturing and retail industry... read | |  | The 2016 KPMG International Global Manufacturing Outlook has stated that 74% of manufacturing company CEOs reported growth as a high priority over the next two years. Competition for market share is fierce with many planning rather aggressive strategies in the pursuit of their growth objectives... read | |  | Tom Gorman, CEO of Brambles and a board member of Enactus, has announced the launch of a global initiative, 1 Race 2 End Waste, to reduce food loss and waste in developing as well as developed countries... read | |
|  | Ruth Cooper Award-winning designer and creator of Afro-chic fashion label Mantsho, Palesa Mokubung chats to us for #YouthMonth about her newly opened store, as well as fashion and youth culture in SA. read | |
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 | Issued by Promise Brand Specialists Promise will be responsible for all tenets of the Edcon marketing continuum, including strategy, through-the-line campaigns and digital execution for a number of diverse and exciting brands... read | | |
 | Menlyn Park Shopping Centre's annual winter sale will run from 24 June to 31 July 2016, and will feature pop-up shops showcasing the latest fashion and accessories from top local DJs... read | |  | The Zone @ Rosebank is undergoing a R500m revamp and the second phase of the project has introduced new big-name tenants, and a city-sightseeing bus stop will follow shortly... read | | |
 | NEW YORK - Amazon on Wednesday unveiled an upgraded Kindle, aiming to boost its e-reader sales with a thinner, lighter device at a low price... read | |  | The new script book - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II - will be available from takealot.com, which is currently offering customers a pre-order... read | |  | Daryl Blundell An increasing number of people with an entrepreneurial mindset are setting up e-commerce sites, thanks to increased access to the Internet and mobile services, a growing middle class and the availability of online tools that are easy to use... read | |  | Alistair Anderson Many South Africans have shopped online, but their total spend is only a fraction of retail spend in South Africa... read | | |
 | Art dealers Justin Rhodes and Ashleigh McLean, and design gallerists Trevyn and Julian McGowan have a dynamic new space in Rosebank's Keyes Art Mile precinct of Joburg... read | |  | This July the Southern Guild Gallery will host the inaugural Brave exhibition, auction and awards dinner, featuring photographs, artwork, poetry, and stories collected by Rock Girl youth reporters and photographers, who live on the front lines of some of the most dangerous, under-served communities in the country... read | | |
 | PARIS - Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri is set to be named the first ever woman creative director of Dior, the famed French fashion house, according to reports on Thursday... read | |  | Issued by Lion's Wing To mark the arrival in the Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) fleet of the Boeing 777-300ER, Breitling has worked with SWISS to create an exclusive limited edition version of its iconic Navitimer watch... read | | |
 | Ann Crotty The £44 a share offer for SABMiller by Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) became significantly less attractive for shareholders after sterling was battered in the chaotic response to the UK voting to leave the EU... read | |  | Fifi Peters Major rival Heineken on Wednesday hit SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) with a slew of conditions it wants the Competition Tribunal to impose on the $108bn merger... read | |  | ABIDJAN - Swiss company Nestlé will offer on-the-job training for 300,000 African youths to offset high unemployment that poses "severe economic and social challenges" for the continent, the company announced on Tuesday... read | |  | Amarula Cream is asking travellers everywhere to celebrate African elephants and their conservation with a new bottle, which will be launched through travel retail stores... read | | |
 | Marc Hasenfuss Newly listed fast foods franchisor Gold Brands Investments, which owns the Chesanyama brand, has acquired affordable eatery concept Mama Chaka's - heralding an unexpected return to the JSE of food sector entrepreneur Dennis Finch... read | |  | Gold Brands Investments, the restaurant franchisor that listed in February, reported R235.5m revenue and R9m aftertax profit for the year to end-February... read | | |
 | Tim Cohen If you had to select a single global advocate and envoy for the modern notion of sustainable business, it would most likely be Unilever CEO Paul Polman, whose message to business, and the world, is so wide-ranging and heartfelt it verges on the messianic... read | | |
 | With a new vision, the Africa Internet Group is connecting its companies into Jumia's ecosystem which will give access to products and services from its e-commerce platforms... read | | |
 | Mosaic at the Orient, South Africa's Restaurant of the Year, has won the Best Overall in Region Award at the 2016 World's Best Wine Lists Awards. The restaurant also took awards for the Best Champagne and Sparkling Wine List; Best Dessert and Fortified Wine List; Best By The Glass Wine List; Best Hotel Wine List; and a special Jury Prize... read | | |
 | Nelene Koen Consumers gather information about food from a variety of sources including their families, the media and through education. But another way that they can get the information is through... read | |  | Issued by Pyrotec Do-It Hang Tabs, offered by Pyrotec PackMedia, are plastic, self-adhesive merchandise display hangers that can turn almost any packaging into a peg-ready product... read | | |
 | If projections hold, Africa will have over 1.1bn consumers by 2020 - more than the populations of Europe and North America combined... read | |  | The latest EY/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Retail Survey indicates a sharp deterioration in the business confidence levels of retailers during 2016Q2. The percentage of retailers that reported that they were satisfied with prevailing business conditions dropped from 44% in 2016Q1 to a 15-year low of 26% in 2016Q2... read | |  | Issued by Nielsen The annual Nielsen study of South African Shopper Trends 2015/2016 finds that promotion-seeking behaviour amongst shoppers is high, with consumers actively looking for these types of offers from grocery retailers... read | | |
 | Superbalist.com presents a unique winter campaign shot in Dakar, Senegal, breaking new ground for SA retail... read | | |
 | In May 1975, the first hypermarket opened for business in Boksburg, bringing the concept of one-stop shopping to South African consumers. Today, some 41 years later, the Boksburg Hypermarket will reopen those very same doors to reveal a completely revamped store... read | |  | Colleen Goko Why have SA's retail giants been falling over themselves to snap up chains in Europe, a continent with lacklustre 1.6% growth and less than shiny prospects? read | |  | Aki Kalliatakis Retailers are fond of telling us their special offers are incredible or crazy. How right they are! Because in many respects the current spate of retail price cuts really is unbelievable, if not downright insane... read | |  | Colleen Goko Small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) in the grocery retail sector are reaping the rewards of big investments by dominant players in the industry, such as Massmart and Pick n Pay... read | | |
 | Blackberry continued bleeding red in the three months ending 31 May, extending a two-year losing streak as the Canadian smartphone maker restructures... read | | |
 | The South African Council of Shopping Centres has introduced a new education programme designed to provide centre management teams with a better overall understanding of the retail environment... read | |
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