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| |  | In his national address last night, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the extension of the National State of Disaster to 15 December 2020, as well as a resurgence plan with interventions to curb the further spread of infections... Read |  | ISSUED BY BULLION PR & COMMUNICATION Albany has launched The Albany Love Project, a social campaign that aims to break the barriers between us, reducing feelings of exclusion and showing people the impact of love in action... Read |  | ISSUED BY TFG (THE FOSCHINI GROUP) TFG Foundation has announced a donation of 300,000 face masks to vulnerable learners across the nation. Together with the Department of Education (DoE) and Gift of the Givers, the leading retailer will be distributing face masks to primary schools that are most in need nationally... Read |
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| Commercial Property |
 | JOHN LOOS Earlier in the year, we discussed the three major provincial regions' (Gauteng, KZN and Western Cape) property markets' ability to handle the major economic shock emanating from the coronavirus-related lockdowns... Read |
 | Nthoese Developments late last month hosted a sod-turning ceremony to mark the commencement of the redevelopment and expansion of Bushbuckridge shopping centre in Limpopo... Read |
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 | LORRAINE DOKE While advancements in technology give consumers the convenience of getting the products and services they want, it's the generated and collected data from these engagements that add real value... Read |
 | Retailers need to revise their approaches to ensure safer sales and customers in the time of Covid-19... Read |
| Design & Manufacturing |
 | Contemporary London dry gin brand, Bulldog Gin, has partnered with four South African artists, designers and creatives to produce unique collaborative pieces that celebrate each creator's individual craft... Read |
| E-commerce |
 | The Insaka eCommerce Playbook offers insights into how South African e-commerce companies set up and run their businesses, and lists the software and service providers they prefer... Read |
 | Ever heard of Singles' Day? It's the world's biggest online shopping day, turning over $38bn last year - more than double the $16.8bn brought in during Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined... Read |
| Fashion & Homeware |
 | Dutch underwear and shapewear brand Magic Bodyfashion is now available in South Africa. The brand has been brought into the country by PDL Distributors... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LONTANA APPAREL Largely due to global supply chain disruptions brought about by Covid-19, more big South African fashion brands are committing to producing fashion at home. What are the implications?... Read |
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| FMCG |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG In #FreshOnTheShelf, we round up our pick of food and beverage products that have hit the shelves recently... Read |
 | JOSEPH CHIRUME The company refuses to recognise a union and a community group as worker representatives... Read |
| Health & Beauty |
 | TARYN GILL Welcome in the era of the naturalista - the woman who owns her natural beauty and is driving the ever-evolving landscape of natural hair and beauty categories, globally... Read |
 | The Customer Solutions Division brings salon-quality products to customers in the comfort of their own home, and provides therapists with ongoing education and training... Read |
| Packaging |
 | ISSUED BY PYROTEC Print and apply labelling offers great advantages for production operations, particularly because it is considerably faster and more reliable than manual applications. It also reduces waste, labour and possible operator errors, as well as running costs and downtime... Read |
| Regulatory |
 | WALLY HORAK The Parliamentary Budget Office released a report (the PBO Report) on 26 June on the potential introduction of a digital tax in respect of the supplies of goods and services by non-residents to South African customers, which are delivered by digital means... Read |
| Research |
 | Recreational cannabis sales will drive global legal market growth by 376% over the next five years, outpacing medical and CBD, according to Euromonitor International... Read |
| Retail Marketing |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Challenge: lessons for SA Brands from overseas work; Advertisers in this country must 'push reset button' and come up with new material... Read |
| Retail Services |
 | YeboBox is a new subscription service that delivers a monthly box of different homegrown snacks to nostalgic South Africans and Zimbabweans living in the UK... Read |
| Retailers |
 | A total of 145 Woolworths stores across South Africa are now free from single-use plastic shopping bags... Read |
 | ISSUED BY HALL'S RETAIL Hall's Retail may have grown from humble beginnings, to a leading and well-known paint, cleaning and manufacturing KZN brand, but the store's family-driven ethos still remains the same... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BIDVEST MOBILITY Although it's uncertain what sales this peak season will bring, retailers are gearing up to participate in upcoming events, such as Black Friday on 27 November, Christmas, followed by back-to-school in the new year... Read |
| Sales |
 | With the annual Black Friday shopping extravaganza just over two weeks away, Proudly South African has urged shoppers to mainly purchase locally manufactured products... Read |
| Shopfitting & Merchandising |
 | ISSUED BY PYROTEC In today's highly visual retail environment, the way products are merchandised in-store has a big effect on sales... Read |
| Technology |
 | ISSUED BY ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES South African fashion retailer utilises Zebra's TC20 mobile computer for Windows to Android migration... Read |
| Training |
 | ISSUED BY SMART MEDIA The Medicare Health group of pharmacies are now training their staff using the Smart-Cnnect app, a digital staff training mobile application that is fully customisable to an array of environments... Read |
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