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 | The 2022 South African Digital Customer Experience Report reveals how savvy consumers have evolved their shopping behaviour and interactions with brands online, and how product discovery online is influencing offline purchases... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY MAKRO Makro celebrates another spectacular milestone in retail excellence, convenience, and savings... Read |
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 | ALEXANDER WINNING Consumer inflation is at 7.8% in South Africa... Read |
 | Google has announced that it has launched Google Wallet in South Africa, the company's flagship contactless payment system... Read |
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 | Extensively looted and damaged during the July riots last year, Edendale Mall in Pietermaritzburg has now reopened... Read |
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 | Brendon Williamson has been appointed the new managing director of PayFast and PayGate, both subsidiaries of Network International-owned DPO Group in South Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY SURREAL 150 speakers focused on e-commerce and online retail solutions | 2,000 delegates set to attend and exchange insights and shared experiences | 100 master classes and inspirational advice to challenge conventional thinking... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TRADE INTELLIGENCE E-commerce continues to shake up the world of retail, internationally and locally. In the past year alone there have been multiple innovations, billion-dollar valuations and vertical integrations... Read |
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 | Founder and director Mervyn Gers says the distribution deal in Australia and New Zealand will boost the SA brand's already growing export market and support local job creation... Read |
 | Kasper Rorsted will step down from the CEO position during the course of 2023... Read |
 | Pandora is launching lab-grown diamond jewellery in North America. "These lab-created diamonds are grown in the US and point to a future of low-carbon diamonds for jewellery and industrial use," said Pandora CEO Alexander Lacik... Read |
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 | South Africa may experience a potentially severe shortage of French fries in coming months, as new import duties on European producers block supply to the local market... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DISTELL Bernini - the real sparkling spritzer made from wine - is introducing a sophisticated new 500ml can and is inviting glow getters to be part of the glow up through a series of masterclasses called the 'Bernini Glow Up Bootcamp' hosted by their brand ambassador Linda Mtoba, alongside a likeminded group of multi-faceted South African influencers... Read |
 | NQOBILE DLUDLA South African drinks maker Distell has reported that its full-year profit rose by 36.7%, as consumers bought more wine, ciders and spirits despite cost of living pressures... Read |
 | ANGELA UKOMADU Renee Chuks, a trained chef, started experimenting with making pasta from cassava in her Lagos kitchen during a national lockdown in Nigeria in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY ACDOCO SA Make room, as there is a new king in town, and Contempo's widest and longest condom is ready to rule... Read |
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 | SA consumers may be facing opportunistic price increases of sunflower oil as processor prices have increased by far more than sunflower seed prices this year, according to the latest Essential Food Pricing Monitoring Report... Read |
 | Online shopping accounts for the majority of consumer complaints received by South Africa's Consumer Goods and Services Ombud (CGSO), according to its latest annual report... Read |
 | CARMIN CORNELIUS The luxury shoe giant, Manolo Blahnik, has won a legal battle to use its own name in China after almost 22 years of litigation... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY INSIGHT SURVEY Insight Survey's latest SA Fast Food/QSR Industry Landscape Report 2022 carefully unfolds the global and local Fast Food/QSR markets (including the impact of Covid-19), based on the most credible intelligence and research... Read |
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 | EMILY STANDER After celebrating its 25th birthday, we decided to chat with The Crazy Store's head of marketing Rena Engelbrecht... Read |
 | Reebok has announced the launch of The Creator Collective as part of the Make it Yours campaign... Read |
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 | MOHAMED ARGOUBI Some Tunisian shops are rationing goods including cooking oil, sugar and butter, while big queues have hit petrol stations amid a fuel shortage as the government navigates a looming crisis in public finances... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY LG Because LG Electronics are experts in air solutions, they have produced many innovative products that push the boundaries of what's possible for residential air conditioners... Read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON China will forgive 23 loans for 17 African countries, China's foreign minister Wang Yi has announced... Read |
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 | PROMIT MUKHERJEE South Africa's competition watchdog said on Thursday, 25 August, that it had raided the country's top insurers over suspicions of potential price collusion on their products. Read |
 | BHARGAV ACHARYA AND ANAIT MIRIDZHANIAN Hundreds of South Africans protested in Pretoria and Cape Town on Wednesday, 24 August against inflation that has soared to a 13-year high, in an action led by trade union group Cosatu... Read |
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