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 | JULIE HODSON The British fashion group Arcadia has fallen into administration, leaving 13,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia's market share slumped from around 4.5% in 2015, to 2.7% in 2020... Read |
 | YAEL GEFFEN By supporting local businesses, we are in turn supporting the local economy and ensuring that significantly more money enters and stays within the community... Read |
 | MICHELLE COETZEE, ISSUED BY ERSBIO Retail is not for the weak-hearted. Staff management is often one of the biggest headaches associated with running a successful retail environment... Read |
| Commercial Property |
 | The planned R500m extension and upgrade to the retail area at Boardwalk Casino and Entertainment World in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro is scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 2021... Read |
| Covid-19 |
 | ISSUED BY KAGISO MEDIA More than eight months after South Africa went into lockdown, consumers continue to be impacted by the effects of Covid-19. East Coast Radio and Jacaranda FM listeners, like many consumers, have been tactical about where they shop, how they shop and how much they spend... Read |
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 | ANDREW BOURNE Customer experience has always been a crucial differentiator for businesses, but in 2020, it became a matter of survival... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PYROTEC Technological innovation offers increasingly more sophisticated methods of communicating with consumers, one of which is near field communication (NFC) technology... Read |
| CSI |
 | Technoserve has introduced a Youth Ideas Development Textiles Programme, aimed at empowering township-based youth and helping to revive SA's textiles sector... Read |
| E-commerce |
 | "The number of PayGate transactions saw a very solid 40% year-on-year growth this Black Friday weekend, although we didn't see any of the big spikes in transactions we have seen in previous years." Read |
 | ISSUED BY OPTIMIZE AGENCY The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) has partnered with South Africa's leading online retailer, Takealot.com, to make the foundation's merchandise for the Mandela Remembrance Walk and Run (MRWR) event available directly to South Africans' doorsteps... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OLX Although it may be game over for contestants taking part in the OLX Hone Your Hustle competition, for one innovatively inspirational side hustler, it's a case of game only just beginning. Meet Ledimo Seloyi... Read |
| Exhibitions & Events |
 | Leading figures within sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing sector will convene virtually at the Manufacturing Indaba 2020 to debate pressing issues impacting the region's industrial landscape... Read |
| Fashion & Homeware |
 | Retail group TFG has launched Galaxy & Co as an online-only jewellery brand. The pure-play brand is aimed at youthful customers looking for quality, fashionable jewellery at accessible price points... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SAPPI Created in partnership with Conservation International and The Biodiversity Consultancy, with support from corporate partner Sappi, the Biodiversity Benchmark provides a roadmap for companies to understand their impacts on nature and to deliver positive outcomes... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EATBIGFISH Taking something important, previously accessible only to the privileged, and making it available to a wider range of people... Read |
| FMCG |
 | From conscientious animal lovers to health-conscious flexitarians, vegan food is gaining traction both locally and globally... Read |
 | Reacting to the growing demand for alcohol-free drinks, Bavaria has expanded its range of 0.0% malt beverages to include a new affordable 500ml can... Read |
| Green Sustainability |
 | Woolworths has partnered with social enterprise Essay Gifts, which has designed and produced Christmas baubles using the principles of a circular economy for plastics... Read |
| Packaging |
 | RAYMOND DUBE As a $900bn-a year industry worldwide, what does the world of packaging look like now? Read |
| Regulatory |
 | BURTON PHILLIPS The Competition Commissioner during the Commission's Annual Conference (in November 2020), noted that the Commission will take a "decisive and proactive stance to ensure the balance of economic forces favour a shift to facilitating entry and a more competitive digital economy"... Read |
| Retail Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY PARETO LIMITED In her first ever project in a shopping centre, world-renowned visual artist Dr Esther Mahlangu has partnered with Pareto Limited to create her biggest indoor artistic works at the newly revamped Southgate Mall food court... Read |
| Retail Services |
 | The Sneaker Shack, a Johannesburg-based in-store sneaker care service, has expanded to Cape Town with its first branch located at Kloof Street Village... Read |
| Retailers |
 | ISSUED BY IMAGINENATION ALLIANCE Results from a recent survey, conducted by ovatoyou amongst 2,000 online South Africans, showed that 71% of respondents predicted that they are going to be spending between 25-50% less this Christmas... Read |
 | Checkers has opened the doors to its new state-of-the-art supermarket at Rosebank Mall in Johannesburg... Read |
 | Clicks has opened its 750th store at the Cape Quarter in Green Point, Cape Town... Read |
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 | ANDREA RADEMEYER AND DR AMELIA RICHARDS, ISSUED BY ASK AFRIKA Around a third of consumers chose not to participate in Black Friday this year, largely as a result of financial constraints (61%), but also because they don't believe prices are meaningfully reduced (21%)... Read |
 | Salesforce data shows global online spend of $270bn... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PROVANTAGE MEDIA GROUP Provantage Media Group has taken up a strong position in the field sales and marketing arena, thanks to the launch of a new division - Field Force... Read |
| Supply Chain |
 | ISSUED BY PYROTEC While the global FMCG sector is under pressure from regulators and consumers demanding full product traceability throughout the supply chain, retailers also insist on quality stock on demand at profitable prices... Read |
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