Retail trends impact manufacturers and suppliers – Deloitte
For those manufacturers and suppliers who use secondary distribution as a competitive advantage, the move of retailers to central distribution centres (CDCs) should be cause for great concern – particularly if this is their primary means of achieving margin. The reason for this move is that retailers will be able to achieve significant supply chain [...]
Online retail sales seen repeating 30% growth
TOTAL online spending on retail goods in SA last year passed the R2bn mark, up 30% on the previous year, and it is expected to grow another 30% this year, World Wide Worx’s Online Retail in SA 2011 study shows. Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, said yesterday that while online retail sales make [...]
Retail sales hit speedbump
Johannesburg – Growth in South Africa’s retail sales slowed to 5.1% year-on-year (y/y) in March from a downwardly revised 5.5% in February, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. Stats SA said retail sales grew by 5.6% in the three months to March, compared with the same period a year ago, also at constant prices. A [...]
Can You Visualise Your Favourite Flavour?
Freggo ice-cream, wanted to take its customer’s experience of its frozen delights beyond the sense of taste and smell and actually allow them to visualise flavours. Working with OgilvyOne London, Freggo unveiled its latest campaign at the Menier art Gallery in London. The campaign, called ‘Taste,’ uses ‘data visualisation’ technology as part of the Sensational [...]
New social buying site opens
Adding to the social buying sites in South Africa, is Skoop.co.za, which offers consumers a means to club together to secure bigger discounts on their favourite products and services and offers businesses a risk-free way to promote offers. Founded by Miles Marshall and Nicola Louw, it adds a twist to deals websites. Each special offer [...]
Code party on offer
The Remy Martin VSOP ‘Live by the Code’ campaign, which makes use of an integral QR (quick response) code system to activate and synchronise all marketing, media and advertising elements, is offering attendance to two exclusive parties. What makes the campaign a benchmark for South African audiences is that the consumer doesn’t necessarily have to [...]
Store-brand food seen eating up market share
Grocery retailers’ store-brand products are expected to double their share of the global packaged food market over the next 15 years to make up half the market, according to a report issued on Thursday. The report by Sebastiaan Schreijen, associate director of processed food and retail at Rabobank, said growth of private-label brands will be [...]
Food sales up 64% since 2009
Food sales are up 64% since January, 2009 and a there is a 44% increase in healthcare credit and debit card swipes, according to new statistics released today. “This is good and bad news”, says Paul Kent, managing director of Johannesburg-based independent credit card swipe company, SureSwipe. “On the one hand it means the necessary [...]
Big Brands Launch Sustainable Packaging Trade Group
Big-name companies such as ConAgra, Colgate-Palmolive, Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, DuPont and Dow Chemical formed a new trade organization to give industry a voice on policy issues related to sustainable packaging. The American Institution for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) launched this week in the mold of its European and British forebears, EUROPEN and INCPEN. [...]
Meet The New Personal Shopper – Mobile Phones
The vision of shopping in the future can be summed up in tailored product ranges and personalized service. But in the stores of METRO GROUP sales brands, professional advice, extensive product information and superior shopping convenience are already a reality. Innovations are being used to safeguard the quality of products and services while providing shoppers [...]
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