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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... read
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JAMES TAGG
As a sub-industry of online retail, ticketing and event management are being shaped to engage consumers in unprecedented ways. read
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Retail
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Andrew Jennings, the former group MD of Woolworths, recently shared valuable survival lessons for retail brands under siege in the digital age... Read
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Commercial Property
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Entries are now open for this year's South African Council of Shopping Centres' (SACSC) Retail Design and Development Awards 2019... Read
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CSI
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Rwandan PaaS (platform as a service) startup Ared has marked its first international expansion by setting up 10 women-run 'smart business in a box' solar-powered kiosks in Uganda... Read
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E-commerce
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Instagram has launched a @shop account, essentially a curation of posts from online merchants that sell products through the image-sharing app. Read
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Change your shopping habits if you want to lighten your environmental footprint, says Hadley Dean, CEO of JSE-listed EPP... Read
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Fashion & Homeware
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Multimedia visual artist Trevor Stuurman and media personality Nomalanga Shozi are the faces of G-Star Raw's South African SS19 brand campaign... Read
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FMCG
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
In #FreshOnTheShelf, we round up some of our favourite food and beverage products that have hit the shelves recently. Read
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MALTE RÖDL
One of the largest meat processors in the UK, supplying supermarkets across the country with beef, pork, and lamb, has launched a plant-based meat alternative. ABP is the first UK meat producer to do so... Read
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Food & bev. services
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
UCook may be in the midst of its most exciting collaboration yet, having joined forces with quirky internet phenomenon SuzelleDIY... Read
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ISSUED BY BURGER KING
The pioneer initiative, targeted to the 1.5 million Twitch users in Chile, wants to bring them all together so their comments build a custom burger which will be sold at selected Burger King restaurants... Read
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Five new restaurants - Café Rio, JB's Corner, Ono Poké Eatery, Rodizio Brazilian Grill and Tapas and Tiger's Milk - will open in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg during the course of the year... Read
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Green Sustainability
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MIRIAM C. DOBSON AND JILL L. EDMONDSON
"Ugly" or "wonky" veg were blamed for up to 40% of wasted fruit and vegetables in 2013, as produce was discarded for failing to meet retailer appearance standards... Read
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Health & Beauty
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EBEN ESTERHUIZEN
The pharmaceutical sector is following suite with general retail and going through uncertain times. More consumers are shopping the basics with baskets of necessities only... Read
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Research
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ISSUED BY ALL TOLD
A recent article in an inflight magazine caught our attention. The article was headlined something along the lines of "what type of grocery shopper are you?"... Read
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ISSUED BY INSIGHT SURVEY
Globally, there has been a growing trend among consumers towards improved health and wellbeing. As a result, the global health trend has swept across all industries, including bottled water... Read
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Retail Marketing
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CHLOE-SIMONE HOFMANN, ISSUED BY PISTOL + HONEY
In an age of multiple digital opportunities, why is it that so many businesses still choose to focus their attention on Facebook alone?... Read
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Shopfitting & Merchandising
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The winners of the 2019 International VM Awards were announced at the RetailExpo in London... Read
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CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO
Innovative projects tackle entrenched gender inequality in Africa... Read
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What if after the second time someone tabled a decision the meeting was automatically over? What if you replaced all PowerPoint presentations with short memos? What if instead of talking about how a drone could reshape the supply chain, you demonstrated a test flight? Read
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