The sweet taste of expansion
We hope you had a relaxing Easter weekend. To ease into the week we have lots of good news stories to satisfy your retail appetite. First up,
14 highlights from #MBFWCT17, with Meagan Duckitt sharing why
Cape Town Fashion Week was a huge success, despite the weather wreaking havoc.
We also have insights ahead of
Primedia Unlimited Malls'
year-long rebrand and restructure with Molefi Moloantoa, CEO of Primedia Unlimited Malls, commenting that digitising the business plays a big part in understanding the shopper better in order to engage in a different, non-direct way.
Sticking with retailer news,
The Crazy Store officially opened its 300
th store on 13 April at the Kyalami Corner Shopping Centre in Midrand. MD, Kevin Lennett explains their plans for
Botswanan expansion in Mowana Park Shopping Centre mid-May, expecting to open an additional 20 stores by the end of 2017.
Then if you're literally looking for something sweet to tickle your fancy, this week's
#FreshOnTheShelf column explores two new
toffee flavours from Darling Sweet - coffee and mint.
That's just a taste of our retail industry news this week, bite in!
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 | Nigeria and more than 100 other nations have signed a key trade facilitation agreement (TFA) with the World Trade Organisation... read |
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 | Following its reacquisition from Tiger Branded Consumer Goods of South Africa, the Nigerian Dangote Flour Mills has returned to profitability after four years of losses... read |
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 | The downgrading of SA's credit rating will also have a regional impact. If the economy is to move into a recession, it will lead to a reduced demand for imports... read |
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 | Takealot Online (Pty) Ltd today announced a R960m investment from Naspers, highlighting the media group's continued commitment to the online retailer and its confidence in the potential of South Africa's e-commerce sector... read |
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 | Marc Hasenfuss PSG-controlled agribusiness investor Zeder continues to be dominated by its 27.1% "kingmaker" stake in consumer brands giant, Pioneer Foods... read |
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 | Pick n Pay expects headline earnings per share in the year to February to rise up to 20% from the year-ago period... read |
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 | Ann Crotty Sovereign Foods moved back into the spotlight last week when its share price shot back towards its all-time high of 950c on large volume trade... read |
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 | Amarula's efforts to save the African elephant has stepped up another gear by releasing 400,000 bespoke Amarula bottles to communicate that there are now only 400,000 elephants left in the wild... read |
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 | A new study from Verint and Opinium Research reveals that customer experience (CX) is considerably more nuanced than many businesses realise and they should focus on both traditional and digital interactions... read |
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 | Issued by Tiger Wheel & Tyre On 6 April, Tiger Wheel & Tyre went live with a brand new e-commerce website - an industry-first for a large South African retail wheel and tyre chain... read |
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 | Issued by Sportal Freshly launched, Sportal is a game-changer that assists local sporting bodies to bring their properties into the digital age. One of South Africa's biggest sports brands, Orlando Pirates, is on board and using Sportal to turn on its e-commerce solutions and drive commercial value... read |
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 | Here, a Q&A with TFG CIO Brent Curry on the retailer's strategy for partnering with startups for mutual gain... read |
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 | The International Islamic Trade Financing Corporation has organised its first B2B meeting between African cotton suppliers and Bangladesh cotton importers, as part of its Cotton Development and Partnership Programme... read |
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 | Issued by Ackermans In 1969, a writer for African Fabrics magazine declared denim as “one of the world's oldest fabrics, yet it remains eternally young.” Donna McPherson, buying manager at value retailer Ackermans, agrees... read |
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 | The objectives of the Manafwa Earth Market is preserving traditional and local products and bringing together small-scale food producers and consumers... read |
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 | Lindie Stroebel and Tommie van Zyl In principle, the fresh produce markets, together with the integrated role of market agents, are critical to the South African and southern African industry to enable market access for all producers and buyers... read |
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 | Hyper-functional foods, which combine natural ingredients with added vitamins and proteins, such as smoothies or fruit-and-nut bars, are gaining in popularity, as are natural and herbal tonics based on trusted recipes... read |
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 | Issued by Cash Crusaders National franchise group Cash Crusaders has shown substantial growth in the face of South Africa's unsteady economic climate where retail growth has remained slow... read |
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 | Cargo can sometimes hide stowaways - agricultural pests that once on shore can devastate crops - from gypsy moths to giant African snails to Argentine ants... read |
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 | Guidelines on CDS will act as an internationally-recognised "gold standard" for governments and businesses looking to establish systems that can trace fish from their point of capture through the entire supply chain - from sea to plate... read |
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 | Currently, South Africa exports fresh fruit to Greece while Greece only exports processed fruit and vegetables to South Africa, but the European Union's ‘Hello Kiwi' programme is set to change the situation... read |
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 | Sunita Menon Growth in the manufacturing sector fell again in February with signs that the sector will not make much of a contribution to GDP in the first quarter... read |
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 | Bad weather in many regions was behind the 3.2 percent fall in global production to 267 million hectolitres (mhl) from 276 million in 2015, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine said at a news conference... read |
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 | Sunita Menon with Mark Allix After a slight improvement in manufacturing production and signs the sector was picking up, output fell again in February... read |
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 | Issued by Pyrotec Pyrotec PackMedia is the sole SA distributor of Do-It Hang Tabs. Do-It Hang Tabs are plastic, self-adhesive merchandise display hangers that can turn almost any packaging into a peg-ready product... read |
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 | Issued by Pyrotec From luxurious and extravagant or playful and colourful to plain and simple, a wine label's job is to catch the eye of the consumer and tell a story... read |
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 | The Department of Environmental Affairs says it will probe reports that some plastic supermarket carrier bags, which claim to be recycled, are allegedly not... read |
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 | Russian Bear Vodka reached over two million fans in its #IAMNEXT campaign, which exceeded its initial target of 360,000 people on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram... read |
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 | Issued by Moving Tactics Burger King and Dunkin' Donuts have become the latest brands to install a custom digital photo booth in their N1 City outlet in the Western Cape... read |
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 | Issued by MediaCom Revlon has appointed MediaCom as its digital agency in South Africa. MediaCom has been steadily gaining ground with its revolutionary content and digital service offering, called MediaCom Beyond Advertising... read |
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 | Mike Jones One of the many benefits of working for an advertising agency is that I get to experience working with numerous and diverse businesses. During my interactions one thing is very clear - to create consistency in the mind of the consumer, one needs a single, definable brand expression... read |
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 | Adidas celebrated the relaunch of the EQT brand, which began in the 90s in Berlin, by sending out an open invitation to South Africans... read |
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 | Colleen Goko Africa is falling off the immediate radar of local retailers after the region posted its slowest growth rate in two decades in 2016, and with the outlook for 2017 looking as unpromising, most companies are changing their focus from expansion to improving customer experience... read |
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 | Sunita Menon Sales of South African retailers totalled R58.58bn in February 2017, 1.7% lower than the R59.5bn in February 2016... read |
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 | The game is on for South African supply chain experts to test their skills against the world's best in the annual Fresh Connection Global Challenge... read |
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 | At this year's WAN Summit in New York City, Michele McCann, business development manager at Teraco stated that the amount of businesses embracing an online strategy is driving an urgent review of legacy infrastructure... read |
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 | MUMBAI, India: India's top e-commerce company Flipkart announced on Monday it had raised $1.4 billion in a record funding round that shores up the online retail giant in its fight against Amazon... read |
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 | NEW YORK - The Victoria Beckham clothing range for Target is flying off the shelves, the latest high-fashion, high-street collaboration seeking to widen market appeal - even if not everyone is impressed... read |
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![Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry Boutique inside Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan.
(c) Leonard Zhukovsky - [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]](https://biz-file.com/c/1704/387972-120x120.jpg?1) | NEW YORK - Sales of Ivanka Trump's clothing collection soared by nearly 61 percent in 2016, the company that manufactures products for the president's daughter's line and other brands said on Monday... read |
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 | NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores is eliminating hundreds of corporate jobs in a cost-cutting move, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday... read |
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 | LONDON - Supermarket giant Tesco revealed on Wednesday that it fell into an annual net loss of 40 million due to a costly accounting scandal at Britain's biggest retailer... read |
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 | Local unlisted research and development companies can establish companies offshore in order to obtain foreign investment without prior approval... read |
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