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Re-energising physical retailIn today's top story, Danette Breitenbach reports back on branding guru Andy Stalman's talk on global retail trends and the future of retail in the digital era. In it, Stalman shares insights on the importance of moving from purely transactional centres to creating inspiring spaces that offer the community immersive experiences that keep them coming back. In related top news, OnShelf Pharma's Eben Esterhuizen details how online shopping is merging with traditional bricks and mortar business in South Africa. We've also got the winners list from the recent Fasa Awards, which recognises SA's top franchisors and franchisees, and their vital contribution towards job creation in the country. In other news, find out why you should be harnessing the evolutionary power of smart packaging; while Ralf Seifert and Richard Marko pose the question ' Will Amazon do to the grocery industry what it did to e-commerce?' To the e-commerce, tech, delivery and fintech innovators among you, nominations are now open for the annual Pricecheck Tech and E-commerce Awards. So get those entries in. Until next week, enjoy! Lauren Hartzenberg
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Danette Breitenbach Every year nine million people view the Mona Lisa. People still flock to live events at stadiums. Why; when they can see it on video, in HD and 3D and AR, etc...read |
| | Eben Esterhuizen Forbes' richest people in the world list says Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, earns $107.4 million per day, so he must be doing something right...read |
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| | | | |  | Issued By Manufacturing Indaba The Manufacturing Indaba 2018 is taking place at Johannesburg's Sandton Convention Centre, in the economic hub of Africa, from 19-20 June... read | |  | Issued By Manufacturing Indaba The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), the Department Science and Technology and the Manufacturing Circle have partnered with the Manufacturing Indaba 2018 to unpack what Industry 4.0 means for manufacturers... read | |
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| | |  | According to Stats SA, retail trade sales increased by 0,5% year-on-year in April 2018. read | | |  | Nicci Botha We've all had those moments of looking at our bank balance and wonder where all your money has gone, well FNB has launched a new app that keeps track of your spending at any time or place... read | | |  | Entries are officially open for the third annual Tech and E-commerce Awards hosted by price comparison website Pricecheck... read | |  | Local home improvement app, HomeFixer, has entered into a partnership with Hirsch's, a popular South African independent home appliances and furniture store... read | |  | Tom Jackson Kenyan startup Sip is simplifying the distribution of alcoholic beverages in the country's capital, and is eyeing growth in the B2B space... read | | |    
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View gallery | | |  | Guess co-founder Paul Marciano is stepping down as executive chairman after the fashion company concluded an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment... read | |  | Aspiring and existing fashion entrepreneurs wanting to take their business to the next level are encouraged to enter the Truworths Fashion Incubation Programme... read | | |  | Luvuyo and Nodumo Jongile, the founders of South Africa's first black-owned gin brand Mayine Gin, have been named as the recipients of the country's first known gin bursary... read | |  | South Africa's growing numbers of Scotch whisky and Irish whiskey lovers are becoming increasingly appreciative of authentic American bourbon... read | |  | "We have been looking to grow via an acquisition in the fishing and aquaculture space. The Viking Group is a very complementary business and the joining of these two organisations allows us to diversify into other species and create a truly global diversified fishing company which will now include aquaculture." read | | |  | Mike's Kitchen, one of the oldest South African restaurant chains, has marked its return to KwaZulu-Natal with the opening of its first store in Salt Rock this week... read | |  | Issued By The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town Burger King SA opened its 80th corporate restaurant at the Kolonnade Retail Park in Tshwane on Friday, 8 June... read | | |  | "Retailers have been given to January 2019 to use their existing stock of plastic straws. We are going to start an intensive education programme as we also need to present importers with alternatives rather than just stating that we are imposing a ban." read | | |  | Issued By Moving Tactics The impact of music on consumer behaviour is well known with research showing that consumers shop for longer, spend more money and have an enhanced shopping experience if they're exposed to music... read | | |  | Issued By Pyrotec Backed by an illicit industry considered to be one of the largest in the world and costing the global economy billions of dollars, counterfeit goods are on the rise... read | | |  | Total South African retail sales for April 2018 grew by 3.7% year-on-year after removing the effects of inflation, showing the highest growth rate seen in April in the past six years... read | | |  | The 2018 Sunday Times Generation Next youth survey announced the top performing brands the at the highly anticipated Sunday Times Generation Next Awards that took place in Sandton on Thursday, 14 June. read | |  | Jessica Tennant Cosmopolitan South Africa has launched a petition to end tampon tax, calling all women to campaign against period poverty in South Africa... read | | |  | Issued By Scan Retail A mall kiosk is a low-cost alternative to opening a brick and mortar store, which also gives you the benefit of flexible lease agreements and the opportunity to test a product or location... read | | |  | The Shoprite Group's Retail Readiness programme is set to reach its target of empowering more than 12,000 youths (aged 18-29 years) by the end of June to enter the retail sector or start their own business... read | |  | Applications are open for the 2019 Stanford Seed Transformation Programme - Southern Africa, with entries closing for this highly competitive programme on 1 July 2018... read | | | | Anne Sexton "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." John F. Kennedy "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." William Butler Yeats "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." Mitch Hedberg "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them." Publilius Syrus "Each day is the scholar of yesterday." |
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