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 | Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now Green Monday. Retailers would be forgiven for becoming a little breathless with all the shopping events that fall just weeks before the traditional rush of the festive season... read |
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 | Mr Price Group has concluded an agreement to acquire family-owned value retailer Power Fashion, which currently has 170 stores located across southern Africa... read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Bizcommunity, in partnership with South Africa's leading business trend consultants Flux Trends, invites you to join BizTrends2021 - Towards New North and New Narratives on Thursday, 28 January 2021... Read |
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 | People who loosen their purse strings during the upcoming holiday season and buy local instead of imported products could help improve South Africa's economic outlook... Read |
| Banking & Finance |
 | ISSUED BY DPO PAYGATE While in-app payments, wallets and QR codes dominate in the mobile payment space, when it comes to bigger ticket items, instant EFT payments are becoming the method of choice... Read |
| Covid-19 |
 | DR DANA BRAITHWAITE, ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH The bottled water, energy drinks and sparkling soft drinks categories are three distinctively different categories, which have all suffered very different impacts as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown... Read |
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 | Customers will assume a very different Black Friday experience on 27 November given the Covid-19 pandemic, and their service expectations will be higher... Read |
| CSI |
 | The South African alcohol industry has stepped up its efforts to assist in curbing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in recently identified hot spots in the Eastern Cape province... Read |
| E-commerce |
 | YARON ASSABI As millions of people in South Africa brace themselves for the Black Friday shopping bonanza, the Covid-19 pandemic has meant that a lot more people will choose to look for their deals online... Read |
 | MEGHAN TAYLOR Covid-19 has fuelled development in the e-commerce space, but there is a downside to this sudden shift... Read |
 | Canal Walk Shopping Centre has boosted its customer services with a new click and collect pickup point powered by Pargo... Read |
 | JARRED CINMAN Jarred Cinman, CEO of VMLY&R South Africa and ACA Board member, talks us through three things he believes the pandemic has changed... Read |
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 | The Sustainable Fashion Awards celebrate South African designers, retailers and personalities leading sustainable, ethical, circular and regenerative practices in the fashion industry... Read |
 | Pick n Pay Clothing has launched its third limited-edition locally-produced collection, this time designed by the well-known Gavin Rajah... Read |
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 | South Africa secured the lion's share of the gold medals and trophies across most major classes in second annual Old Mutual Trophy Spirits Show... Read |
 | The upgrades will enable the company to scale up production and create approximately 30 new jobs... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BIODEGRADABLE FUTURE Biodegradable Future is pleased to announce that Vita Go Beverages will be rolling out with Biodegradable Future Bottles... Read |
 | Bain's Cape Mountain Whisky will temporarily be sporting a green label to highlight the brand's recent sustainability achievements, which drew positive global recognition for the proudly South African spirit. Read |
 | PAUL MAKUBE With Christmas only five weeks away, the current trend in meat prices signals prospects of expensive braais during the 2020 December festive season... Read |
| Informal Retailing |
 | The South African Informal Traders Alliance has highlighted its acute unhappiness about being excluded from critical policy decisions, laws and planning... Read |
 | The Department of Small Business Development and Nedbank have called on informal fruit and vegetable traders who were negatively affected by the pandemic to apply for funding... Read |
| Research |
 | Lightstone reviewed the traffic patterns of Black Friday over the last two years to try and predict what might happen on 27 November of this year... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ONPOINT PR Throw in a top fashionista's tips for what to wear this season and the insider track on how one rising blogger has become a fashion disruptor: Welcome to Skip Power of 5, a sparkling new YouTube show that explores how the story of our lives is wrapped up in the clothes we wear... Read |
| Retailers |
 | The new Builders store set to open at Cresta Shopping Centre in Johannesburg on 26 November will be the first branch located inside a super-regional mall... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ARAMEX Aramex Global Shopper is an international shipping service that offers swift, secure and affordable courier into South Africa. After signing up, it gives you access to over 30 addresses around the world... Read |
 | The ODOmeter will be conducted on a quarterly basis to assess the shifts and changes in the rapidly evolving e-commerce sector... Read |
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 | It's that time of the year again, when retailers attract their biggest share of customers and increase in-store foot traffic as the festive season begins... Read |
| Supply Chain |
 | ISSUED BY BIDVEST MOBILITY Bidvest Mobility, a leader in mobile computing and barcode solutions, recently introduced the latest range ofmobile devices from world leader Honeywell... Read |
| Technology |
 | ISSUED BY TELVIVA In recent months, the need for companies to deliver secure and scalable communications and collaboration solutions, tools and applications has seen significant growth in the worldwide unified communications (UC) market... Read |
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