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Shift away from price | Dedication to black-owned procurementIn top news this week, Australia's Gary Mortimer and Louise Grimmer look at how some retailers are moving away from price-based marketing to a focus on other attributes, such as sustainability, local produce and community. And Coke bottler Coca-Cola Beverages SA has committed to divert R3.9 billion in procurement spend, or 30% of the total, to black-owned and black women-owned organisations over the next three years. Switching focus to online fashion retail, Spree's Vincent Hoogduijn outlines his top reasons why online shopping's share of total retail sales in South Africa will increase exponentially over the next three years. And Zando has launched zero-rated shopping for Vodacom subscribers, meaning that Vodacom users can browse and transact on the retailer's mobile app and mobile website and no longer pay for data usage. As the listeriosis saga continues to unfold, Rainbow Chicken polony has been cleared of the deadly ST6 strain that caused 91% of cases. Last but not least, a hearty congrats to proudly South African whisky brand Bain's Cape Mountain Whisky which has been awarded the title of World's Best Grain Whisky and founder distiller, Andy Watts, awarded the title as the global Icon of Whisky Master Distiller/Master Blender for 2018. Here's to an inspiring week! Lauren Hartzenberg
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Gary Mortimer and Louise Grimmer On 26 January 2011, Coles fired the first shot in what would soon be dubbed the "supermarket price wars" by reducing the price of its own-brand milk to A$1 per litre...read |
| | | Coca-Cola Beverages SA is committing to divert R3.9 billion in procurement spend, or 30% of the total, to black-owned and black women-owned organisations over the next three years...read |
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| | | | |  | Respected British senior retail executive, Andrew Jennings, has released his debut book, Almost Is Not Good Enough in South Africa... read | | |  | American designer and celebrity DJ Virgil Abloh is to take over menswear at Louis Vuitton, the brand said on Monday, in a dramatic shake-up at the top of men's fashion. read | |  | British fashion designer Stella McCartney is to take full control of her brand, buying the 50% stake held by French luxury group Kering... read | |  | Meagan Duckitt African Fashion International (AFI) hosted its annual autumn/winter Fashion Week at the Salt River Film Studios in Cape Town from 21-24 March 2018. read | |  | Gracious Dube from Hout Bay in Cape Town is delighted to have her handmade purses, which are upcycled from rooibos tea bags, stocked in a fashion boutique in Paris... read | | |  | Bain's Cape Mountain Whisky has been awarded the title of World's Best Grain Whisky and founder distiller, Andy Watts, awarded the title as the global Icon of Whisky Master Distiller/Master Blender... read | |  | Lebogang Mokubela Issued By Lemok Group Dear FMCG brand managers, if your product is appealing to the township (black) market, why are you using Sandton-based agencies?.. read | |  | Out of the 945 dairy products from 83 producers that vied for the attention of the 84 judges, only 18 were honoured with the Qualité mark of excellence... read | | |  | Pizza Hut's African growth story continues as the restaurant chain celebrates the opening of its 100th store in sub-Saharan Africa in the historic Ghandi Square, Johannesburg... read | |    
View gallery | | |  | South African beauty chain Sorbet launched its own range of make-up at the beginning of March. The new offering is intended to complement the company's salon services, skincare and nail colour products... read | |    
View gallery | | |  | Tamar Khan The listeriosis outbreak has negatively affected trading partners' perceptions of the safety of food exports from SA and could have financial repercussions that extend far beyond the firms at the heart of the crisis... read | | |  | Issued By Pyrotec The less material you use to hang your packages, the less money you're going to have to spend on hanging supplies like hang tabs and display strips... read | |  | Ireland's Smurfit Kappa, which makes cardboard and paper packaging, said on Monday that it has rejected an improved 8.9-billion-euro ($11-billion) bid from US peer International Paper. read | | |  | Lunice Johnston Failing to plan for a reputational crisis happens more often than it is comfortable to think about. Lunice Johnston writes about what steps are crucial to successfully handling a reputational crisis... read | |  | Jessica Tennant Sol Beer's 'My sunshine in a bottle' campaign, created in partnership with The Odd Number and launched in November last year, has to date reached a new audience of 900,000 followers and an engagement rate of 6%, surpassing the industry standard of 1%... read | | |  | Linda Ensor The head of the Hawks's commercial crime unit has slammed a report submitted by Steinhoff management as lacking in substance and "malicious"... read | |  | Retail and financial services provider, HomeChoice, is considering an equity raising to fund future growth... read | | |  | The VAT increase on 1 April could cause a run on bigger-ticket items as consumers attempt to beat paying the taxman extra... read | | | | Susan Sontag "The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions." Lady Gaga "I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws." Mariah Carey "You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'" Albert Einstein "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." |
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