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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Traditional brick and mortar retailers still have a future despite the boom in online retail, but they have to be open to change... read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
When you design for mobile, consider who you're building for. For the small percentage with beautiful, high-end phones, or for 61% of the market? read
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MAROEFAH SMITH
Starting an e-commerce store in South Africa can be a tricky minefield. Luckily, Insaka E-Commerce Academy CEO Warrick Kernes let us in on his six top steps to starting an online business...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The eCommerce Africa conference kicked off at CTICC on 19 March with a keynote session by Chantel Botha, founder of BrandLove, titled: 'More than a feeling, on why CX is the #1 competitive differentiator'. Here's what you missed...read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Opening her presentation at Seamless Southern Africa, Edcon's Lauren King shared her understanding of customer experience...read
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Retail
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MAROEFAH SMITH
You don't have to shy away from using your social awareness or 'wokeness' to grow your business. In fact, it might do better if you do... Read
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MAROEFAH SMITH
Nigerian entrepreneur Ink Eze knows how to grow an online community: her wedding community Bella Naija Weddings has over three million followers on Instagram... Read
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The 9th Annual South African Council of Shopping Centres Research Conference, a mainstay event on SA's shopping centre and retail industry calendar, is set to take place at the Maslow Hotel in Johannesburg on 3 April... Read
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Fashion & Homeware
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Louis Vuitton is pulling Michael Jackson-inspired items from its autumn/winter 2019 menswear collection, as controversy mounts following the release of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland... Read
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The City of Cape Town has plans to commission a clothing, textile and fashion study in the 2019/20 financial year, to unpack the economic contribution of the sector... Read
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FMCG
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Mondelez International has taken a minority investment in Uplift Food, a US-based early-stage startup focusing on prebiotic functional foods... Read
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Green Sustainability
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Over 5 years' worth of development work has culminated in the launch of Sunlight's new 100% recycled and recyclable bottle... Read
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Health & Beauty
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ISSUED BY LUXURY BRANDS
As anyone who has presbyopia would know, it can be really tricky to apply makeup perfectly when you have to remove the very glasses you need to see properly... Read
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Import/Export
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Britain's tortuous progress towards leaving the European Union presents an opportunity for South African poultry producers as post-Brexit trade deals are negotiated... Read
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Retail Marketing
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LEIGH ANDREWS
In a talk titled 'Why your story matters', in the 'driving demand' track of the fifth eCommerce Africa conference, attendees heard from Mike Joubert, founder of the Billybo Group. Dubbed a godfather in SA brands and marketing, he walked us through the virtue of storytelling and why it matters, while shedding light through examples from some of the greatest commercial stories ever told... Read
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Lao Tzu "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." Gloria Steinem "Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular." Yayoi Kusama "Polka dots are fabulous." Fei Fei Sun "Wear some mascara, give attention to your eyebrows and also take care of your lips." Hyprop Investments' Kimaal Baker on how consumers' demands drive digital disruption |
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