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Lauren Hartzenberg The proliferation of e-commerce essentially means that retailers are now more than ever competing in a global marketplace...read |
| | Maroefah Smith Artificial intelligence doesn't have to induce a Hollywood sci-fi dystopian nightmare in which robots take over the world. It may instead offer an exciting opportunity to connect consumers to your brand...read |
| | Maroefah Smith Tapping into the potential of data to provide insight into consumers' thinking and behaviour may translate into an enhanced customer experience strategy...read |
| | Lauren Hartzenberg The word 'pollution' may conjure up images of dirty waterways and smog-filled city skies but seldom is it realised that the clothing on our backs may be the product of a dirty and dehumanising supply chain...read |
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Leigh Andrews On Friday, 9 March, I attended the Columinate research presentation on the measure of tomorrow, where I learned that up to 90% of consumers' decision-making is non-conscious. Here's further proof why your brand needs to tap into consumers' non-conscious decisions...read | 
David Noel Lardin Technology developments will continue to revolutionise payment in both the real and virtual worlds across the globe. As always, though, local conditions will dictate exactly how global trends affect local markets...read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg Toys 'R' Us Inc. is going out of business, shutting all of its 735 toy stores and Babies 'R' Us stores in the US after a failed turnaround... read |
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 | Sunita Menon Annual South African manufacturing output growth accelerated to 2.5% in January from December's figure, which was revised down to 1.8% from the 2% Statistics SA originally published... read |
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 | Cross border e-commerce continues to provide significant growth opportunities for retailers and manufacturers with an international online product offering... read |
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 | Issued By World Travel Market Africa WTM Africa 2018 is excited to announce its inaugural WTM Africa Tourism Investors' Forum, a platform dedicated to connecting ministers of tourism from countries across the continent, with eager investors... read |
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 | Donatella Versace has said her family's luxury fashion label will no longer use real furs in its products, according to an interview with a British magazine... read |
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 | Marc Hasenfuss Consumer brands giant AVI, which performed commendably in the half-year to end-December, is determined to reboot its footwear division... read |
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 | Robert Laing Chicken should be exempt from value-added tax, poultry producer Astral said. The increase in VAT to 15% in April from the 14% it had been for the past 25 years would hurt consumers who relied on chicken for their main source of protein... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Somalian online delivery startup Gulivery has already expanded to the capital Mogadishu after its launch in Hargeisa last year, and is planning expansion across East Africa over the next few years... read |
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 | Sharon George and Deirdre McKay Lego is going to start making toys from plant-based plastic. In an effort to become more sustainable... read |
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 | The global nature of the seafood industry has resulted in transparency and traceability emerging as key supply chain issues, especially when it comes to combatting the growing threat of illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing... read |
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 | South Africa has had the biggest listeriosis outbreak in the world that resulted in more than 180 deaths to date... read |
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 | A leading meat scientist has urged the companies implicated in SA's biggest recorded outbreak of listeriosis to collaborate in efforts to determine how their products became contaminated with deadly listeria bacteria... read |
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 | Issued By USA Poultry & Egg Export Council Demand for chicken meat is showing no signs of declining, as poultry overtakes red meat consumption in markets around the world - including the United States and South Africa... read |
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 | A new Exporter Development Programme has been launched by the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber in partnership with the Eastern Cape Development Corporation... read |
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 | Ruth Cooper We chat with Studio H founder Hannerie Visser about how they are using food to design brand experiences and create memorable campaigns for their clients... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews FCB Red Chicago's retail strategy group lead Curt Munk explains that retailers and marketers alike need to understand the new laws of attraction in order to survive what he dubs 'the retail apocalypse'... read |
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 | Despite celebrating her 59th birthday on Friday, 9 March, Barbie remains the most popular toy and doll brand in the world... read |
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 | Robert Laing Kenya is turning into an interesting battleground between South African grocery chain Shoprite and French rival Carrefour... read |
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 | Trading in second-hand goods is as old as business itself - and now it's enjoying a rising new wave of popularity, to the benefit of both buyers and sellers... read |
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 | Simon Van der Merwe 'Online shopping blasting holes in traditional retailer profits.' 'Retailers acknowledge the threat of online retail on physical stores.' Headlines like these appear regularly in the South African press... read |
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 | Listed household goods retailer and financial services group Homechoice is gearing up to improve its digital offering to further enhance sales... read |
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 | Issued By NEC XON The increasing VAT amount is having an enormous impact on retailers that use paper price tags but almost none on retailers that use electronic shelf labels (ESL)... read |
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 | Ann Crotty More than 98% of Steinhoff International's shareholders voted to discharge all of the directors and supervisory board members from liabilities at the group's annual general meeting (AGM) in March 2017... read |
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 | South African consumer spending for January 2018 climbed 3.8% year-on-year after removing the effects of inflation, marking the same pace of growth the retail industry saw during the December peak season... read |
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 | Simon Holt Over the next five years, digital technologies will dramatically disrupt how consumers will engage with retail brands well into the future... read |
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 | More and more commuters are affected by crime on railways and many are reaching a point where they feel helpless, leading them to take matters into their own hands. They often do this by posting a comment or video recording on social media. read |
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Jerry Lewis "I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope." Samuel Johnson "The true art of memory is the art of attention." Ben Okri "I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does." Edgar Fiedler "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard." Edgar Allan Poe "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." |
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