South Africa's QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) industry has been through a rollercoaster year, juggling consumer budget constraints, soaring inflation, and the operational strains of load shedding. Read more

Food to go

It may feel like there are more grocery delivery bikes than other vehicles on the road and that supermarkets have more delivery shoppers than ‘real’ shoppers in them... Read more

Ecommerce

Trade Intelligence has been providing insights on the South African FMCG retail sector for 20 years. To celebrate this milestone, we will be publishing a series of articles and white papers on some of the major changes and trends we have seen in this... Read more

Corporate Retail

Trade Intelligence’s Corporate Retail Comparative Report (CRCR) offers a detailed analysis of the comparative performance of South Africa’s six major FMCG retail companies – Shoprite Holdings, The SPAR Group, Pick n Pay Stores, Woolworths Holdings, C... Read more

Corporate Retail FMCG

Last week, Trade Intelligence (Ti) marked its 20th anniversary by hosting the annual Ti Retail Conference in partnership with Smollan, where key FMCG and retail industry players gathered to share insights, strategies, and forecasts amid a flat and ch... Read more

In The News

In 2004, when Trade Intelligence opened for business, there had been surprisingly little movement in South Africa’s grocery retail sector since the end of Apartheid. Read more

FMCG Formal Independent Informal Market Informal Trade

South Africa’s informal sector is a vibrant and essential engine of the economy, thriving amidst adversity. Despite facing high food inflation, soaring unemployment and persistent load shedding, the sector not only endures but flourishes. Read more

Informal Trade Trading Environment