The local tearoom or café was once the cornerstone of suburban South Africa, much as the spaza or the small local super has been in the townships. South Africa has a long history with convenience stores. Read more

Convenience Retail Shopper Marketing Trading Environment

When looking for data on Easter shopping patterns, Trade Intelligence used Chirp’s self-driving survey platform to get the numbers they needed. The results are illuminating and relevant – and even a little entertaining Read more

Shopping Trends

How would one begin to describe the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the past three years? Read more

FMCG Retail Shopper / Consumer Trends

Africa is open for business. The continent has a rapidly growing and urbanising population, an increasingly sophisticated financial and monetary system, improving infrastructure, and is adopting information and mobile technology at a rate that is the... Read more

FMCG Product Retail

Around the developing world, informal retail continues to be a powerful social force, employing millions of people who might otherwise not have jobs, driving economic activity in spaces that formal business has not penetrated, and providing essential... Read more

Informal Market

The Standard Bank Top Women Awards are Africa's most acclaimed business awards for women and celebrate individuals and organizations who make a meaningful contribution to gender empowerment in South Africa. The ‘Top Gender-Empowered Company in Retail... Read more

Business Intelligence

As we flip flop between candles powering up and diesel drumming to a now common beat - with the longest run of loadshedding in South Africa recently under our belts Read more

Retail