Tag: retailers
Navigating disruption: How retailers can prepare for the R100-billion ecommerce market
SOUTH African retail has experienced profound transformation over the past few years, with digital platforms and ecommerce reshaping consumer expectations. However, we are just in the earliest phases of digital transformation...
From start-up to scale-up: SMEs discover what big clothing and textile customers are looking...
On Tuesday, 21st May, over 40 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the clothing, textile, footwear, and leather (CTFL) sector gathered for the KwaZulu-Natal Clothing & Textile Cluster Origin8 workshop. This...
Business is booming in Cape Town’s CBD
Business is experiencing strong growth in the Cape Town’s Central City with 135 new entities opening in 2022, bringing the total number of businesses to 3 116 compared with 2 981...
Premium African Fashion & Textiles Event
Brought to you by Messe Frankfurt South Africa, this renowned event:
• Will be hosted at the CTICC from 26 – 28 September 2023
• Offers trend talks, special product & exhibitor fashion...
The pros and cons of home delivery as ecommerce surges past R55 billion a...
With ecommerce in South Africa breaching the R55 billion a year barrier, home delivery has become a way of life for the country’s consumers. Yet delivery isn’t the right fit for every retailer’s...
How retailers can position for growth and operational efficiency amid plunging sales
Over the past three years, South African retailers have navigated a difficult landscape with challenges including the fallout from the pandemic, global supply chain disruptions, rising inflation and unprecedented load shedding....
Retailers must accommodate the 86% of consumers who still use cash
With recent research showing that only 14% of South African consumers are ready to go completely cashless, retailers should be looking at ways to accommodate their customers’ preferred way to pay, while also...
Opinion piece: Ensuring Black Friday doesn’t accidentally put your business in the ‘red’
By Tennille Bell, General Manager: Sales at Programmed Process Outsourcing (PPO)
Black Friday has become a global shopping phenomenon, characterised by an annual spending spree by shoppers on the fourth Friday of November,...
How agile retailers can keep pace with a volatile fuel price
South African consumers and retailers have been warned to brace themselves for yet more fuel price increases in November. Volatile fuel pricing is likely to be a part of the landscape...
Hopes of recovery for SA furniture manufacturers as retailers expand local sourcing
The next 36 months hold promise for the local furniture manufacturing industry, states the eThekwini Furniture Cluster (EFC), which states that its market research among prominent South African furniture retailers have...
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Neurodiversity: Unlocking the potential behind every mind
International Performance Coach and Public Speaker, Alvin Govender, speaks frankly in this open letter about Neurodivergence and its benefits in the workplace.
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