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Keep striding This week has seen several local retailers and international brands take huge strides across not only Africa, but the global playing field. Mr Price is planning its first stores in Australia; and Woolworths' recent Ozzie acquisition, David Jones, is branching out into New Zealand. Botswana-based Choppies is extending its African borders to Kenya, while coffee brand Nespresso is launching into Senegal, with its first store opening in Dakar. Meanwhile, Spar is eyeing the Indian market, and is aiming to have 25 stores up and running there by 2017. Speaking of taking strides, this will be my last appearance as editor of Bizcommunity's Retail newsletter. After more years than I can count on one hand as the head of this particular portal, I will be shifting industries, with Jessica Taylor taking over the reins here. I'd like to thank our readers, contributors, PROs and news sources for all your support over the years, I couldn't have done this without you. This is not "farewell" though, merely "see you around". Take care and have an amazing week! Shan Radcliffe, Group Head - Retail (@Biz_Retail)
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In conjunction with the state visit of the Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, along with a high-level Dutch trade delegation, to a Spar Hypermarket in New Delhi, Spar announced that it plans to open 25 Spar Hypermarkets by end of 2017... Read more >> | Bruce Morgan, CEO of GreatSoft CRM, is the overall winner of the inaugural FNB Business Innovation Award 2015... Read more >> | Dakar, capital of Senegal on the west coast of Africa, is the scene of Nespresso's launch into the country, with the opening of its first boutique on the same avenue as the delegation of the European Union in Senegal... Read more >> | | In a banking first for South Africa, FNB is to offer its customers its own SIM cards from 15 June 2015. This will allow its flexible mobile services to integrate into its banking systems seamlessly... Read more >> | David Jones will be the fifth Woolworths Holdings Limited (WHL) company to launch into New Zealand, joining successful brands Country Road, Witchery, Trenery and Mimco... Read more >> | Following the Rosebank Mall revamp, The Zone @ Rosebank has announced it will undergo a R500 million revamp, culminating in a tenant handover in September 2015... Read more >> | Alistair Anderson The Mr Price Group (MPC) is set to open its first physical stores in Australia later this year selling Mr Price clothing and home products‚ and this time market commentators are more optimistic... Read more >> | Retailers in the US are merging brick-and-mortar and digital strategies into an omni-channel engagement, while most organisations are still contemplating how to develop a meaningful customer engagement strategy... Read more >> | The 2015 Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), published by AT Kearney, places three sub-Saharan countries in the top 30 - Botswana #18, Nigeria #23 and Angola #30... Read more >> | Chantel Botha When customer experience is introduced into a corporate strategy or dusted off, when it has been there all along, as a part of a strategy review, it can be a daunting task... Read more >> | If, as a retailer, you have spent the last few years losing sleep over showrooming, then the results of the latest TNS Global study might be a surprise... Read more >> | Newly listed "food and staples" retailer Choppies (CHP)‚ which is primarily based in Botswana‚ has wasted no time delivering on its promises to expand rapidly into new markets in Africa... Read more >> | The illegal tobacco trade is a growing scourge that requires greater co-operation and collaboration by all stakeholders to stamp it out... Read more >> | Both the importing and exporting businesses are to be affected by the changes to the Customs Acts, which aim to modernise customs control in South Africa... Read more >> |
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 | On the latest Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show, host Warren Harding interviewed Graeme Lipschitz and Brendan Stein... read more>> | | |
 | Banks should do more to bring small traders into the banking net so that they can take advantage of systems such as debit orders and electronic funds transfer mechanisms to settle accounts rather than relying on cash payments... read more>> | | | | |
 | Hisense announced that the company has invested in property in the Western Cape for their local headquarters... read more>> | |  | Issued by Hairsavvy Hairsavvy, a hair care brand by Recare Cosmetics has launched their official website. Hairsavvy is a leading brand which provides hair and scalp solutions to women all over South Africa... read more>> | | | | |
 | Joan Muller Despite consumers' seemingly waning appetite for retail therapy, at least 30 new shopping centres, varying in size from 5000m2 right up to 120000m2, are expected to open their doors this year and next... read more>> | | | | |
 | Once again, the 'Pretty Things for Little Things' competition has launched to encourage senior citizens, and others, to create clothes and toys for needy children. Prizes are offered provincially and nationally to entrants over 60... read more>> | | |
 | Robert C. Johnson Company executives - especially customer service leaders - will tell you that the customer is the most important person on the planet and that the company is focused on making the customer happy with a laser-like intensity... read more>> | | |
 | New mobile commerce technologies do more than help merchants tap into an expanded customer base. The audience target that they're reaching is increasingly qualified and predisposed to purchasing... read more>> | | | | |
 | Danette Breitenbach Grand Designs Live has a reputation as a show that innovates and gets better year on year. In the United Kingdom, where the show originated, it has won numerous awards... read more>> | | | | |
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 | In Constantia Uitsig, at the former River Café premises, Neil Grant and business partner Barry Engelbrecht of Burrata and Bocca have opened the Open Door Restaurant... read more>> | | |
 | The launch of a free trade agreement by three African economic blocs in Egypt this week will be an important step towards a potentially game-changing common market spanning the continent, supporters say... read more>> | | | | Christopher Wood | | |
 | Party tonight from 5-9pm under an almost full moon at the new Night Market in East City precinct on the corner Harrington and Barrack Streets, Cape Town... read more>> | | |
 | FreshStop at Caltex has partnered with Pargo to facilitate online purchase deliveries across the country with the stores becoming Pargo parcel pick-up points for customers, thereby increasing convenience to consumers... read more>> | |  | Issued by Tiger Wheel & Tyre As if the crisis of bad manners on our roads wasn't enough, now the energy crisis has thrown load shedding and non-functioning robots into that mix and created a situation which is downright dangerous... read more>> | | |
 | Evan-Lee Courie Coenraad Bezuidenhout, executive director of the Manufacturing Circle, answers questions such as why manufacturing production has decreased this year in South Africa, what are some of the main challenges the industry is facing, and what can be done to overcome such challenges... read more>> | | | | |
 | Karen Charlton and Alta Schutte South Africa has been a trailblazer on the continent in the global battle to reduce salt intake through food. But three years after the bold food policy was first introduced in South Africa - and less than a year until it finally becomes law - the country has still not set up programmes to monitor how effective the legislation will be... read more>> | | |
 | Issued by Insight Survey Insight Survey's latest Carbohydrate Landscape Report comprises extensive primary research in order to ascertain and provide detailed insight into this state of 'dependency', and its impact on domestic market dynamics... read more>> | | |
 | Companies looking to do business in Africa should not rush. Careful planning is needed and political connections are not necessarily helpful when selecting an 'on the ground' partner... read more>> | | |
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 | Transport operators, which are a key component of the economic fabric of rural towns, are finding it increasingly difficult to operate in a challenging environment... read more>> | | |
 | In order to identify and support local suppliers, Massmart, City of Tshwane and Tshwane Economic Development Agency (TEDA) held a supplier development exhibition for Tshwane-based manufacturers... read more>> | | |
 | Bruce Byrne Mobility and always-on connectivity have become a big part of our everyday lives and as such, tablets are now regarded as essential, not only within the consumer space, but also in the business market... read more>> | |  | Issued by Digicape Location-based beacon technology provider Beamo has launched in South Africa. Beacons provide contextually relevant information that's personal and high-touch at just the right time to a mobile device... read more>> | | |  | Hi-tech analysts Juniper Research are forecasting that the telematics sector will continue to outperform all other M2M markets over the next five years, in revenue terms, with one in five passenger vehicles connected globally by 2019... read more>> | |  | SAN FRANCISCO, US: Pinterest said on Tuesday it is diving into e-commerce with "pins" that let people buy items they like at the popular online bulletin board. read more>> | |  | LONDON, UK: Britain's advertising watchdog said on Wednesday it had banned a magazine ad promoting French fashion house Saint Laurent because the model featured was "unhealthily thin"... read more>> | | Boris Dzhingarov | | | | | | | | | | | | | More International | |
|  | Lilian Mutegi Millicom, has agreed to buy an 85% stake in Tanzanian operator Zanzibar Telecom (Zantel) from the Etisalat Group... read more>> | |  | Lilian Mutegi A Ugandan Court has pronounced that mobile money business operated by the five major telecommunication companies in the country is illegal... read more>> | | | More Africa | |
|  | PRETORIA: South Africa will from Sunday host the 25th Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU)... read more>> | |  | Nthambeleni Gabara The South Africa Football Association (Safa) is currently seeking legal action against the Sunday Independent following the publishing of what it says is a "not only misleading, but false and defamatory" article, last Sunday... read more>> | | | | Nthambeleni Gabara | | | More Government news | |
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| | | Inspire Trade Expo - 10 Jun 2015 to 12 Jun 2015, Johannesburg South Africa's only 'business to business' furniture, decor, design and retail trade exhibition taking place 10-12 June 2015 at Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand. www.inspiretradeexpo.co.za Read more >> Dilano Design art will be featured at the Inspire Trade Expo 10-12 June 2015. South Africa's one and only furniture, décor, design and trade expo. Read more >>Smart Procurement World 2015Commerce Edge South Africa Pty Ltd - 8 Sep 2015 to 10 Sep 2015, Johanneburg | 1 Mar 2016 to 3 Mar 2016, Cape Town | |  If you are starting out your customer experience (CX) transformation or have been on the journey and are looking for inspiration and new ideas, this is the workshop for you. Read more >> | | |
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