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 | The global market value of the subscription economy will grow to $275bn in 2022, rising from $224bn in 2021, a new Juniper Research study has found... Read |
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 | Akani Properties, a 100% black-owned property investor, manager and developer, has acquired the Nicolway Shopping Centre in Johannesburg... Read |
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 | Holiday demand pulled early with 30% of global sales recorded in the first three weeks of November... Read |
 | Bidorbuy marketing manager Anne-Marie Green identifies key trends set to feature strongly in the online shopping space this year... Read |
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 | The rebrand comes on the back of a period of sustained growth for the e-commerce outfit... Read |
 | Pop superstar turned fashion entrepreneur Rihanna is getting ready to roll out the first physical storefronts for her Savage X Fenty lingerie line... Read |
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 | CHRIS GILILI Clover workers across the country have been on strike for eight weeks... Read |
 | Fledge Capital has acquired a 25% direct shareholding in Ultimate Sports Nutrition, the fast-growing sports nutrition brand... Read |
 | The local rum, which is the world's first floral-infused rum, is being introduced to the UK and exclusively distributed by 31Dover... Read |
 | MASEGO MAFATA Hundreds of striking Clover workers picketed outside the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition in Pretoria... Read |
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 | GlaxoSmithKline, the owner of Aquafresh, Voltaren and Eno, has rejected a proposal from Unilever to acquire GSK's Consumer Healthcare business... Read |
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 | Marketers have spent many years and countless millions building customer loyalty for their brands. It took a global lockdown to curtail the spread of Covid-19 less than two years to undue all that effort and adspend... Read |
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 | SASHA PLANTING Mattress Firm looks set to reemerge as a publicly-traded company almost six years after it was acquired by Steinhoff, and just over four years after Steinhoff imploded in a billion-rand accounting scandal... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ACKERMANS South Africa's leading value retailer, Ackermans, has taken back-to-school nerves and turned them into back-to-school excitement with its wide range of school necessities under one roof... Read |
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 | In this week's episode Let's Talk Digital host Audrey Naidoo chats to Kelvin Jonck, CEO of YOUKNOW Digital on the topic of The Data Revolution... Read |
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