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Insights from Source Africa 2018Source Africa, the 2-day exhibition aimed at the continent's textile, apparel and footwear sector, dominates our top headlines this week. First up, I share how outdoor apparel company K-Way used lean manufacturing to overhaul their production and business processes to become a dynamic force within SA's clothing manufacturing sector. Then Maroefah Smith reports back on WGSN's intensive buyers briefing forecast for macro trends, menswear and womenswear respectively. In other big news, Cosmo SA readers are able to shop the pages of the July 2018 issue thanks to an innovative partnership with online retailer Takealot. And I interview 20-something entrepreneur and social innovator Zaid Osman for Youth Month. He chats about founding the hugely popular Sneaker Exchange and his new retail project Grade Africa. We also capped off our Manufacturing Indaba coverage this past week. If you need a recap, give our Manufacturing Indaba special newsletter a read or head over to our dedicated section. We've got an insights-packed Mobile Commerce content focus coming your way this month. So keep an eye out! Until next week, enjoy! Lauren Hartzenberg Retail Editor: Bizcommunity.com Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your retail news and event invitations to retailnews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-retail@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | |  | Top stories |
Lauren Hartzenberg K-Way has been lauded as exemplary in its approach to boosting the local clothing manufacturing sector. But 14 years ago, the company was approaching the brink of closure...read |
| | | Cosmo SA readers are able to shop the pages of the July 2018 issue thanks to a partnership with online retailer Takealot.com...read |
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Maroefah Smith WGSN's director of retail and buying Sara Maggioni presented a spring/summer 2019 trend forecast at Source Africa 2018, held in Cape Town last week...read | 
Maroefah Smith WGSN's trend forecast for menswear spring/summer 2019 sees a focus on hybrid styling, mixing and matching, and bolder, brighter colours...read | 
Maroefah Smith Trend forecaster WGSN reckons womenswear for spring/summer 2019 will lean towards a reclaiming of
power dressing in a sassier, sexier aesthetic with an inclination for the '80s and '00s nostalgia...read |
| | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg Entrepreneur and social innovator Zaid Osman is one of the driving forces behind South Africa's vibrant sneaker culture... read | | |  | Danette Breitenbach Manufacturing is an indispensable sector if South Africa is to achieve its economic growth targets in future... read | |  | Danette Breitenbach In his keynote address to the Manufacturing Indaba, Department of Trade and Industry director-general, Lionel October, referred to the Industrial Policy Action Plan 2018 and its focus on key themes... read | |  | Danette Breitenbach Innovation happens at the speed of trust, not the speed of technology. Roby Stancel from Virtual Consulting International explains this using the automotive industry as an example... read | |  | Danette Breitenbach What took 100 days before, now takes 100 seconds. Manufacturing cannot continue to operate as it always has, and without some type of innovation it will not survive... read | |  | Danette Breitenbach The two countries with the lowest employment in the world, Germany and Japan, are also home to the world's most automated manufacturing industries in the world... read | |  | Danette Breitenbach For manufacturers to stay ahead they need to think consciously about the next thing and come up with the next thing... read | |  | Danette Breitenbach In same the way as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Revolutions did, the 4th Revolution is creating discomfort around the globe... read | |
| | |  | While "Ramaphoria" took the consumer confidence index from -8 in Q4 to +26 in Q1 2018, it appears the glow is not likely to last. This is according to Broll's recently released SA Retail Snapshot for Q1... read | | |  | Issued By OLSPS Analytics In the United States, many retail brands including Amazon Prime, Macy's, Target and GAP, have adopted the use of in-store credit cards. These retail cards create a symbiotic relationship between the companies which provide them and the consumers which use them... read | | |  | The South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) has a new president - property sector stalwart Stephan le Roux... read | |  | The Soshanguve South View Shopping Centre opened for business on Thursday, 28 June... read | |  | Due to open in August 2018, the 11,500m² Tibani Shopping Centre in Polokwane is being developed by GMI Property Group... read | | |  | The African Continental Free Trade Agreement will encourage partnerships among e-commerce firms within the continent, and impact Nigeria's growing economy significantly, believes the CEO of Jumia Nigeria... read | |  | Jessica Tennant Former MD of The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town, Claire Cobbledick has recently been appointed GM at Gumtree SA, after joining the online classified advertisement and community website as head of marketing in 2014... read | | |  | The latest technological innovations shaking up the retail sector across the globe were revealed at the second RCS Retail Summit, held in Cape Town and Johannesburg this week... read | | |  | Ben Leo Africa has an emerging and expanding middle-class of consumers that is demanding premium everyday products and has the proven spending power to pursue them... read | |  | Samantha Snedorf Still 33 is a craft distillery owned by Curtis and Brownyn Van Biljon who are honestly two of the nicest people I have met in a long time. A family-owned business based in Kyalami; I got to meet every single member of their clan as I sipped on a gin at 11am on a Sunday morning while discovering their story... read | | |  | Food manufacturer BM Foods is shrinking its carbon footprint by introducing a CO2-driven refrigeration system into its new, modern Cape Town factory... read | | |  | Issued By Pyrotec The world's first print-and-apply labelling system capable of attaching printed barcodes to adjacent sides of a case is now globally available from Markem-Imaje, and locally from Pyrotec PackMark... read | |  | Issued By Pyrotec With the imminent separation of Tower from the Pyrotec brands, Pyrotec assures its stakeholders of its steadfast approach to focusing on its strengths and continuing to grow within the markets it serves... read | | |  | Issued By TFG (The Foschini Group) The Foschini Group walked away with the prestigious "Retailer of the Year" award at the Canal Walk Retail Excellence Awards. The group has 26 stores trading in the shopping centre, representing all of its local brands... read | |  | South African online wine retailer, Cybercellar, has appointed AJ Nel as its new CEO... read | |  | The Great Yellow Brick Co is opening South Africa's first Lego Certified Store in Sandton City on 28 July 2018, following a multi-million-rand investment and exclusive deal with The Lego Group. read | |  | Canal Walk Shopping Centre honoured its top retailers at the Canal Walk Retail Excellence Awards, held recently at The Westin Cape Town Hotel... read | | | | Richard Lewis "There's a thin line between narcissism, even if it's a healthy narcissism, and entertainment." Ambrose Bierce "Doubt is the father of invention." Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." Vera Wang "The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it." George Santayana "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world." |
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