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Between South Africa’s highly consolidated corporate retail space and the teeming informal sector lies the formal independent channel – increasingly in competition with the former, continuing to serve the latter, and contributing 30% of total FMCG re... Read more

Business Intelligence FMCG In The News International Retail Shopper Marketing Technology Trends

Consumer prices are skyrocketing, and we are all feeling it. Driven by a perfect storm of COVID restrictions and impacts over the last two years followed by a major European war, and significantly for South Africa, a Chinese economic slowdown Read more

Business Intelligence Customers Economic Education Financial FMCG International Rising Prices Shopper / Consumer

Private label within FMCG retail, historically driven by corporate retailers and embraced by South African shoppers has now also started emerging within the formal independent wholesale trade. Read more

Business Intelligence COVID-19 FMCG Formal Independent Private Label Product Retail Shopper / Consumer Trends

Since the turn of the century and consistently for nearly a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic ravished global markets, Read more

Business Intelligence Community FMCG Informal Market Manufacturing Problem in South Africa Retail Shopper / Consumer Shopper Marketing Technology Trading Environment Trends Wholesale

The informal sector, also described as the shadow or grey economy plays a key role in economic growth, where operators have no formal contractual agreements and are instead connected Read more

Business Intelligence FMCG Informal Market Trends

A view on the state of e-commerce in South Africa, with no mention of a new normal, pivoting or anything unprecedented. Read more

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