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Preparing for Black Friday | #MobileCommerceOur top story this week: In preparation for one of the biggest shopping days of the year, Outdoorphoto's Graham van der Merwe reviews what retailers can learn from Black Friday 2017. While in other top news, FedEx Express shares insight into the African millennial consumer and their expectations from brands. In highlights from our #MobileCommerce content focus: • Cape Union Mart Group's Amanda Herson on the role of mobile in delivering the right product, to the right customer, at the right time. • Useful and Beautiful's Lynette Hundermark on how to make your mobile user tap "buy now". In other news, South African retail sales for May 2018 grew by 3% year-on-year, according to the latest Mastercard SpendingPulse report. And a Food Franchise Forum has been established to represent the majority of the household names in the casual dining and quick service restaurants sector. Don't forget to visit our MandelaMonth special section for all news relating to Mandela Day 2018. Until next week, enjoy! Lauren Hartzenberg
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Graham van der Merwe If 2017 is anything to go by, Black Friday is quickly becoming one of the busiest South African shopping days and, like the US, marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season...read |
| | | As the largest consumer group in the world today, it is impossible to ignore the impact millennials have had - and will continue to have for decades to come as they settle into their prime spending years...read |
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| | |  | Issued By DNA Brand Architects This Mandela Day Steers and the Shout foundation founders, Kabelo and Dany K, took over Eastern Cape's small town, Motherwell, and awarded 1,500 scholars from Fumisukoma Primary School with a fully-fledged library... read | |  | Issued By August Collective The Distell Group is commemorating the 100-year legacy of former South African president, Nelson Mandela, by releasing a once-off, limited-edition gift pack... read | |  | Issued By Burger King This year, on Mandela Day, the team at Burger King South Africa unveiled the new and improved facilities at the Inamandla Day Care Centre, in Khayelitsha... read | |
| | |  | Lynette Hundermark Mobile, and increasingly apps, are core to the success of any retailer's strategy through all stages of the path to purchase or shopping customer's experience... read | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg As Cape Union Mart Group's director of e-commerce, Amanda Herson has the mammoth task of ensuring a seamless online experience for some of South Africa's most loved retail brands... read | |
| | |  | Total South African retail sales for May 2018 grew by 3% year-on-year excluding the effects of inflation, compared to the 3.1% year-on-year growth recorded in May 2017... read | | |  | Issued By TFG (The Foschini Group) More than just a corporate mandate, all TFG employees across stores, regional support teams and head office are encouraged to get involved in the fight to alleviating poverty across Africa... read | | |  | Issued By Sappi Sappi will be constructing a demonstration plant to further scale up its novel Xylex technology for the production of Xylitol and Furfural... read | |  | The University of Johannesburg (UJ) recently presented its African Stitch Secondary Cooperative Enactus project at the Enactus South Africa National Competition... read | |  | Panasonic South Africa, a local subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation, unveiled its new Cape Town offices last week... read | |  | Furniture designers and manufacturers have been invited to apply towards the Good Design Programme, a competition geared at individuals and startups looking to further their understanding of innovation in business... read | | |  | Locally developed cashback rewards app, SnapnSave, has launched in the wholesale trade sector, allowing independent traders and spaza owners to benefit from cashback rewards... read | |  | Ellen De Matos Silva Ellen De Matos Silva shares her thoughts on the digital landscape of South Africa as well as the rise of e-commerce... read | |  | Afrimart, a Pan-African business to business (B2B) e-commerce platform for products made in Africa, has just been launched, offering growth prospects for the less exploited intra-Africa trade... read | |  | Hoorah ramps up its e-commerce capabilities with the acquisition of Durban-based design and development agency, Tenzing... read | | |  | TFG has launched two new online fashion stores, Donna and The Fix, marking the 16th and 17th online stores for the retail group since it started its e-commerce journey in 2014... read | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg Home appliances have always been designed to make our lives easier. And as consumers become increasingly time-poor, the need for 'convenience' is driving more and more of our purchasing decisions... read | |  | Issued By Leap Communications One of the world's most sought-after formal shoe brands has introduced a casual range in response to consumer demand and in line with international trends... read | |  | Issued By Sloom One mattress for all types of sleepers. Sloom's goal is to eliminate the confusion and frustration of commission-driven, high-markup beds in the South African market... read | | |  | On last week's episode of CNN Marketplace Africa, Pioneer Foods CEO Tertius Carstens outlined the company's journey from its beginning in 1997 and describe some of the challenges the company has had to overcome... read | |  | KWV scooped the 2018 trophy for the Brandy Producer of the Year at the International Spirit Challenge (ISC), in a ceremony held in Bishopsgate, London last week... read | |  | Ben Coxworth We've already heard about experimental edible coatings made from silk, pectin and chitosan that increase the shelf life of fresh fruit and vegetables. Now, however, a coating made from waste plant material is being used... read | | |  | The Franchise Association of South Africa (Fasa) has announced the establishment of a Food Franchise Forum representing the majority of the household names in the casual dining and quick service restaurants sector... read | |  | I Love Coffee, a Cape-based social enterprise that trains and employs deaf baristas to work as frontline staff in its stores, plans to open as many as five new outlets over the next twelve months... read | |  | Samantha Snedorf What do the erstwhile indie band- Ashtray Electric and my favourite juniper spirit have in common? Andre Pienaar of course! read | | |  | Louise Scholtz In an era of uncertainty, when it comes to both power supply and pricing, renewable energy sources can provide certainty in both supply and costs... read | | |  | Issued By Garmin After years of hard work and dedication the Garmin sub-Sahara Africa team have achieved new heights and have been recognised on an international level by being awarded the 2017 EMEA Office of the year award by Garmin International... read | |  | Issued By Leap Communications According to new research an average one in four men have a dry scalp and most of them are using an anti-dandruff rather than a moisturising shampoo to address the problem... read | | |  | Catia Folgore Product-related risk is one of the biggest perils facing businesses today, with significant amount of increased recalls revealing the potential for larger and more complex losses in the past decade... read | | |  | Issued By Pyrotec Retailers use 'best before' dates on food products as an indication of quality, showing that although the food is no longer at its best, it is still good to eat... read | |  | Issued By Pyrotec Pyrotec's machinery division, Pyrotec PackMark, has launched the new 9405 Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) coder from the trusted global manufacturer of product identification and traceability solutions, Markem-Imaje... read | | |  | According to a recent BMi Research report, in 2017 the RTD fruit juice category saw its first decline in five years. The category is possibly not a priority purchase for consumers who are financially strained... read | | |  | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster Malta International Airport (MIA) has published its traffic results for June 2018. Passenger movements were up by 14.6% over the previous June. It proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that summer here is a thing. read | | | | Woody Harrelson "A grownup is a child with layers on." Benedict Cumberbatch "The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." Angela Merkel "The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough." Paul Cezanne "Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience." |
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