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 | | Despite the ban on tobacco sales during the national lockdown, more than 90% of smokers have been able to purchase cigarettes during the period...read |
|  | ISABELLE CHABOUD The Covid-19 crisis has hit the luxury and fashion industry hard. According to a study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group, sales in these two sectors could drop by 25% to 30%...read |
|  | SEMONA PILLAY SA might never be able to 'go back to normal', especially in terms of retail which currently contributes 15% of South Africa's GDP...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY GFK SOUTH AFRICA The Covid-19 outbreak looks set to further deepen and accelerate a well-established trend towards 'cocooning' in South Africa as families stay home to keep safe and make better use of their finances... Read |  | Young Living Essential Oils opened its South African office just 7 months ago, and now, like many of us, the local team is having to adapt to do business under lockdown... Read |
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 | DR NICOLE CUNNINGHAM The new e-commerce regulation is expected to lead to a drastic increase in online shopping amongst South Africans... Read |
 | Nedbank has revealed its new digital platform Avo. Described as a "super app", Avo will provide customers with access to online shopping and other essential services... Read |
 | Pick n Pay has expanded the list of goods available to purchase via its online store to include home entertainment items and white goods, such as fridges, freezers and ovens... Read |
 | MAUREEN ALLEM, ISSUED BY RENEWAL INSTITUTE Since the shift to level 4 allowed for online ordering of certain products, the sales of our online skin shop skyrocketed across the country, showing an increase in sales of over 800%... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MEGAVISION MEDIA Key Distributors, a business of Value Logistics, is a warehousing and sales company focused on the distribution of FMCG products to formal and informal retail markets in South Africa... Read |
| Food & bev. services |
 | Two months after expanding into grocery deliveries, SA startup Quench has announced that it's now doing restaurant deliveries and charging a lower commission than many of its competitors... Read |
| Health & Beauty |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG The Covid-19 lockdown has stalled South Africa's dynamic beauty services industry. Due to the high-touch nature of the job, it may be a while until beauty practitioners are able to safely resume trade... Read |
 | Nominate yourself or somebody else to win a free skincare or laser foundation course from Beautique Academy... Read |
| Packaging |
 | ISSUED BY PYROTEC Even though packaging is necessary, a lot of products have excess packaging where the information that is needed could be applied directly to the product rather than adding packaging to display necessary information... Read |
| Regulatory |
 | MPUMI KIVA With the sale of alcohol banned for over seven weeks, the illegal booze trade has mushroomed and prices rocketed... Read |
 | MOSA DAMANE Spaza shop owner says ban on alcohol and tobacco has cost him R25,000... Read |
 | While there is general scientific consensus that the novel coronavirus is of zoonotic origin and various groupings are advising that wildlife markets must be closed, the South African government has been putting forward legislation that could massively expand the wildlife industry to become mass meat suppliers to the world... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT "It feels like we started this year in January with huge excitement and goals. Kids went back to school, we got on with work and before we knew it, we kind of had to stop again and our path has completely altered. So, really, it's about what's next and how we reboot and get back into 2020, our 2020 2.0..." - Diana Springer, head of strategy at Black & White, an M&C Saatchi Company... Read |
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 | African remittance provider Mukuru has launched a grocery service that will give foreign national workers living in South Africa, as well as any South Africa-based customer, the ability to send groceries... Read |
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 | South Africa's retail trade sales increased by 2% year-on-year in February 2020, according to Statistics South Africa... Read |
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 | A smart helmet that can scan the temperatures of up to 200 people every minute is now available in South Africa... Read |
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Arianna Huffington "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success." Robert Frost "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." Maya Angelou "You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive." Aristotle "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour." Henri Matisse "Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul." |
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