GLOBAL
Digital sales grew around 58% during the five days leading up to Christmas, despite earlier shipping cutoffs...
SOUTH AFRICA
The British fashion group Arcadia has fallen into administration, leaving 13,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia's market share slumped from around 4.5% in 2015, to 2.7% in 2020...
Julie Hodson 3 Dec 2020
GLOBAL
Salesforce data shows global online spend of $270bn...
SOUTH AFRICA
For many industries, predicting the future during a pandemic would be difficult - if not impossible. Retail is different. Why?
Oliver Guy 13 Nov 2020
SOUTH AFRICA
YeboBox is a new subscription service that delivers a monthly box of different homegrown snacks to nostalgic South Africans and Zimbabweans living in the UK...
GLOBAL
Digital sales are expected to hit all-time highs and lead to strained shipping capacity as retailers grapple with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
GLOBAL
A new global report highlights challenges and opportunities for retailers as the Covid-19 pandemic drives permanent shifts in consumer behaviour now and beyond the holiday season...
SOUTH AFRICA
Amazon veteran Paul Misener shared insight into how the e-commerce giant approaches innovation and the profound role a diverse workforce plays in this process...
Lauren Hartzenberg 21 Jul 2020
SOUTH AFRICA
Retail sector investment into mobile apps and platforms has been accelerated by the global pandemic...
Leon Coetzer 10 Jul 2020
GLOBAL
Retail was in trouble long before Covid-19 hit. The past five years saw daily reports of store closures and retailer bankruptcies. The growth of online commerce eroded many retailers' top-line revenues...
Frederic Dimanche 6 Jul 2020
GLOBAL
The CMO Council has picked notable brand stand-outs experiencing an upturn in the global downturn...
GLOBAL
As Covid-19 shifts the global economic outlook into deep recession, reflecting the impact of social distancing measures on economic activity, no industry remains untouched...
Camilla Butler 5 Jun 2020
AFRICA
DHL Express has acquired a minority stake in Link Commerce, the UK-based e-commerce firm that helped the logistics company develop its DHL Africa eShop platform...
SOUTH AFRICA
The Covid-19 crisis has hit the luxury and fashion industry hard. According to a study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group, sales in these two sectors could drop by 25% to 30%...
Isabelle Chaboud 20 May 2020
GLOBAL
Forrester predicts that due to the coronavirus, retail sales in 2020 will decline by an average of 9.6% globally, a loss of $2.1tn...
GLOBAL
E-retail transaction values will reach $4.8tn by 2024, up from $3.3 trillion in 2020, according to a new report from Juniper Research...
SOUTH AFRICA
There could be light at the end of the tunnel for big brands trying to reconnect with their customers on the ground...
GLOBAL
Children are becoming more active adopters of e-commerce sites. Their interest in online shopping has more than tripled in the last 12 months - from 2% to 9%...
GLOBAL
The results of the second annual BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable Global Retail Brands have been revealed. The research shows that the world's most valuable retail brands are worth $339 billion more...
GLOBAL
Instagram has launched a @shop account, essentially a curation of posts from online merchants that sell products through the image-sharing app.
