Retail Multimedia

Last year’s Grand Effie winner Halo and client Pineapple show they are not a one-hit wonder, as they are awarded with the 2025 Gold Effie for Sustained Success - Products, Services.

Winning a Gold Effie Award at the ACA Effie Awards held last month, Sanlam’s The F-Show with agency Accenture Song is a campaign that captured reach and impact through humour, and resonated with the market.

The Loeries radio jury member and executive for brand, marketing and digital at Pick n Pay, Katherine Madley, chatted to VML Birdwatching at the Loeries with Bizcommunity on the state of retail.

The Loeries 2025 in-person jury judging session took place on Monday and Tuesday, 6 and 7 October, in Cape Town. VML Birdwatching at the Loeries with Bizcommunity caught up with some of the jury presidents to glean some of the highlights of the entries and what constitutes a winning entry.

This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on agentic AI and how it is revolutionising business, especially on the continent.

Episode 3 is the Energy Episode with special guests Kagiso Tshepe, executive creative director at Grid Worldwide, Roanna Williams, chief creative officer and co-founder of Boundless, Fran Luckin, chief creative officer of VML, Preetesh Sewraj, CEO of The Loeries and Brandon Govender, digital & integrated executive creative director at Joe Public.

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 2 is the Emotion Episode and features special guests Neo Segola, head of creative at Le Pub, part of the Publicis Group, Sharleen James, chair of the ACA and marketing practice lead at Accenture Song, Tebogo Skwambane, WPP country manager, Terry McKenna, executive creative director of The Odd Number and rounding it off Carl Willoughby, chief creative officer of TBWA / Hunt Lascaris.

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 1 focuses on that five percent difference, with special guests Wayne Naidoo, CEO of the Duke Group, Marc Algranti from Algranti Music and Nkanyezi Masango, chief creative officer from Dentsu Creative.

Loom hosted the launch of the limited edition Nike Free Inneva Woven at its multi-brand street fashion shop along 4th Avenue in Parkhurst, Johannesburg.

Photos from the Design Indaba 2013 Expo.

Tuesday, 4 December 2012, saw the soft launch of the private sale club, BrandHunter. BrandHunter offers their members premium men's and ladies' apparel, jewellery, accessories and electronics at excellent prices via monthly flash-sales. A simple, exciting and exclusive shopping experience!.

Aarya has opened! The restaurant, brought to you through a partnership between South Africa's first MasterChef winner, Deena Naidoo, and hotels, gaming and entertainment company Tsogo Sun, opened this week to the delight of fans and foodlovers across Gauteng.

On 31 October 2012, MTN launched a multi-million dollar Data and Switching Centre in Mutundwe, just outside the Kampala city centre.

On Friday, 12 October 2012, South African retail fashion brand TFG (The Foschini Group) hosted a prize giving lunch for the top three gift card designs, following a call to design students at top local tertiary institutions to redesign its gift cards.