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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Some of South Africa's largest retailers have introduced additional safety measures, including barrier screens at till points and protective visors... read
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CARA DU PLESSIS AND TENISHA BURSLEM-ROTHEROE
What businesses in the retail sector need to know about competition law in the time of Covid-19... read
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ISSUED BY BARLOWORLD LOGISTICS
Covid-19 has brought the global economy to a standstill. Governments around the world are working hard to slow the rate of infection, but what does this mean for businesses? We asked our supply chain and freight forwarding experts to weigh in... Read
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ISSUED BY 1FETCH
1Fetch is open for business during the lockdown, however, it may only deliver packages that qualify as essential goods or services... Read
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ISSUED BY THE LIME ENVELOPE
Preparing now to flatten the curve... Read
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ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR DIETETICS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Here's some advice from registered dietitians and Adsa (Association for Dietetics in South Africa) spokespeople, Jessica Byrne and Retha Harmse... Read
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ISSUED BY CLICK2SURE
The Covid-19 lockdown has placed digital transformation front and centre for most businesses. Many large retailers and other enterprise companies are turning to insurtech to help kickstart their revenues in a post-lockdown new normal... Read
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KEVIN KRUGER, ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH
BMi Research continues to operate and is doing everything in its power to ensure that clients continue to receive reports and insights during the enforced 21-day lockdown period... Read
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Commercial Property
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MARIE-LOU GILLESPIE
The government has gazetted special regulations that encourage retail tenants to meet with shopping mall owners... Read
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KAYLA SHADIACK
The effects of Covid-19 are being felt by small and larger businesses particularly in the retail and leisure sectors... Read
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CRM
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FNB has announced Clicks as its new health & beauty eBucks rewards partner, after FNB's partnership with Dis-Chem ended recently... Read
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CSI
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Following its R50m appeal in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, non-profit food redistribution organisation FoodForward SA has received over R11m in financial and food donation support... Read
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E-commerce
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On-demand drinks delivery business Quench has expanded its service to include groceries... Read
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Takealot.com reopened for trade on 30 March, to focus on the sale and delivery of essential goods as authorised and prescribed by the South African Government... Read
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ISSUED BY BRANDHUBB
From 27 March to 15 April 2020, BrandHubb will be rewarding consumers with 'MeBucks' for watching fun, educational and high-quality content... Read
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FMCG
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The James Sedgwick Distillery and master distiller Andy Watts were recognised at the 2020 Whisky Magazine World Whiskies Awards... Read
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The pulp, paper, packaging, recycling and tissue value chains will continue to operate as a critical business continuity service supporting the manufacturing, processing and distribution of essential goods... Read
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Franchising
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To help support its franchisees during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Spur Corporation suspended franchise fees for the second half of March and the whole of April... Read
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Green Sustainability
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Food sector innovators are called upon to co-create sustainable solutions to help South Africans become more food secure in the context of the Covid-19 crisis... Read
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Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever are responsible for half a million tonnes of plastic pollution that is burnt or dumped per year in just six developing countries... Read
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DEAN LYNCH, ISSUED BY BEAN CONTENT
Biodegradable plastics can be just useful as regular plastics, too. They maintain their strength, they're affordable and the additive can be applied to the vast majority of plastic products... Read
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Packaging
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The winners of Winemag.co.za's Label Design Awards for 2020 have been revealed, with three gold awards allocated for wine, and two each for beer and spirits... Read
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Regulatory
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KAY RICKELMAN
Grey-market goods are the genuine, non-counterfeit goods of a trade mark owner, imported into an economic area and sold without the trade mark owner's consent... Read
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Research
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By Sunday, 29 March, only 1.2 million transactions at ATMs and stores were recorded... Read
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Retail Marketing
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We are living through dark times but it is important to try to stay positive; and the situation may well be giving many companies the chance to take stock of the future... Read
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ISSUED BY PYROTEC
While contingency planning is a structured approach put in place to deal with a sudden or drastic turn of events (such as the Covid-19 lockdown), scenario planning is the way companies think about the future and anticipate gradual change... Read
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AUSTIN EFIENAMOKWU
It is now a sad reality that the disruption which the coronavirus is creating is on the increase in Nigeria and, as should be expected, this is certainly creating some ripples and racking of nerves across the advertising industry... Read
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Retailers
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XIAODAN PAN, BENNY MANTIN AND MARTIN DRESNER
As the fear of the coronavirus spreads, consumers have been flocking to stores to stockpile emergency supplies, resulting in empty shelves as retailers can't keep up with demand... Read
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Massmart has announced that it will freeze prices on all essentials for the duration of South Africa's 21-day lockdown... Read
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Pick n Pay has introduced express queues for hospital workers to shop for their essentials as quickly and as efficiently as possible during the SA lockdown. Read
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Studio H has compiled a list of independently-owned food businesses that are continuing to operate during the lockdown in South Africa... Read
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