BEIJING, China - China has shared bikes, umbrellas, and basketballs, but one company is taking the country's love affair with the "sharing economy" to an erotic extreme with a line of rentable sex dolls. 18 Sep 2017
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Steinhoff International said on Friday it had raised at least R15.4bn for its African retail assets, which it plans to list separately on the JSE on Wednesday. 18 Sep 2017
SACSC president Malcolm Horne and Nedbank Corporate Investment Banking's Robin Lockhart-Ross with Spectrum Award winner representatives from Menlyn Park Shopping Centre.
The 2017 Retail, Design and Development Awards (RDDA) winners were announced on the opening day of the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) Annual Congress, held in Cape Town's International Convention Centre. 15 Sep 2017
Travelstart was the overall winner of the PriceCheck Tech & E-commerce Awards 2017, claiming the title of E-commerce Service of the Year. In other notable wins, Takealot scooped the People's Choice award and Robyn Smith from Faithful to Nature was named Best Female Tech/E-commerce Entrepreneur. 15 Sep 2017
Marketing agency Nonzero is collaborating with Standard Bank to create the Business of Fashion accelerator programme, ‘Threads - stitched by Standard Bank', to boost South Africa's up-and-coming fashion designers and turn them into powerful fashion CEOs. 15 Sep 2017
Recently Marie Claire, a major fashion magazine, published its first-ever sustainability issue. It represents one of the first times mainstream fashion turned a comprehensive and thoughtful eye on itself with regards to environmental and social issues. 15 Sep 2017
Queen Mathebula was crowned the winner of the 25th annual Championship Boerewors competition and her recipe - South Africa's number one boerewors - will be available in all Shoprite and Checkers stores nationwide from Friday 15 September 2017. 15 Sep 2017
It's been a rough few years for the retail industry. Major US department stores J.C. Penney and Macy's announced hundreds of store closures, while back home Nine West and Mango shut its standalone stores and we witnessed the death of the 159-year-old Stuttafords. 14 Sep 2017
L-R: PepsiCo auditor - Elsa Kubeka; comedian - Lazola Gola; Doritos assistant brand manager - Kudzayi Kanyama; Doritos Battle of the Bold winner - Tarryn Peterson; comedian - Loyiso Gola and Doritos brand manager - Wesley Chetty
The Doritos ‘Battle of the Bold' A vs B campaign came to an epic finale. 14 Sep 2017
Benchmarking is a vital component in your management tool box. It is about a lot more than just collecting numbers for the sake of some vague historical record. 14 Sep 2017
Clover CEO Johann Vorster. Image credit: Martin Rhodes via Business Live
Clover Industries was savaged on all fronts in the year to June. Prolonged drought was followed by a wetter, cooler summer, which affected beverage sales. At the same time, rand volatility was compounded by SA's ugly political environment. 14 Sep 2017
Woolworths has reintroduced rBST-free labelling onto their milk packaging, starting with all of their fresh Ayrshire milk products. This follows the approval from the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) of Woolworths audit protocol, including the implementation of rBST hormone testing. 13 Sep 2017
Frost & Sullivan's analysis, Future of B2B Online Retailing finds that prioritising mobile and omnichannel strategies will augment growth opportunities in B2B online retailing market. 13 Sep 2017
While studying in Europe, Egyptian entrepreneurs Rana Rafie and Yara Yassin were inspired by the recycling and upcycling boom taking place around them. Hailing from Cairo, one of the most polluted cities in the world, the two decided to take their new passion home. There they founded UpFuse, an upcycling initiative that turns plastic bags into fashionable accessories. 13 Sep 2017
The recent South African recession caused a recurrent cycle between three franchise stakeholders, namely the franchisor, the franchisees (new and existing) and suppliers/service providers. 13 Sep 2017
In an effort to effect change in South Africa, Adidas has challenged sports personalities and teams to display their athletic capabilities creatively through challenge videos. 12 Sep 2017
Consumer brands conglomerate AVI, which owns household names such as Five Roses, Willards and Bakers, is weighing up options for its fishing business, I&J. 12 Sep 2017
Retailers in South Africa operate in an extreme social environment. On one hand there's social unrest and on the other, customers are splurging R600,000 on a bottle of whiskey. This kind of market demands a plethora of responses from retailers in terms of how they service consumers that have such dramatically different realities. 12 Sep 2017
Many shoppers buy free-range eggs because they think the eggs are superior, rather than out of explicit concern for the hens' welfare, according to our new research. 12 Sep 2017
Operating margins were ripped to shreds at Rex Trueform - the owner of niche fashion retailing chain Queenspark - in the year to end-June. 12 Sep 2017
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