Filed under: Branding
Brent Campbell, digital design director of recently launched Switch Digital Cape Town, explains that with the web becoming a stronger business platform for brands to communicate with their target market, it was essential for Switch to give its clients a full set of brand solutions under one umbrella.
Clothing credit retailers, such as Truworths and Foschini, would endure the climate of slower growth in consumer spending better than credit furniture retailers, such as the JD Group, Ellerine and Lewis, analysts have predicted.
Filed under: International News
The UK’s largest supermarkets have raised dairy product prices, ignoring a previous warning and increasing consumer costs by about £270 million (R3.8 billion).
Filed under: International News
Sainsbury’s, the UK’s third- biggest supermarket chain, softened its opposition to Qatar’s £10.5 billion (R149 billion) takeover bid after the Persian Gulf emirate said it would borrow less to fund the deal.
Filed under: International News
Retail sales in Britain rose strongly last month, helped by strong sales of food, official data showed yesterday.
Filed under: Local News
The National Credit Regulator (NCR) is honing in on clothing retailers to check their compliance with the National Credit Act.
Filed under: Retail
Local retail sales growth slowed to 4.9 percent year on year in July at constant prices, according to official data yesterday, weakening the argument for another interest rate hike next month.
Filed under: Local Company News
Cartier, one of the world’s leading brands of luxury goods, has decided that South Africans have grown rich enough to justify opening a store here in November.
Filed under: Local News
Absa Capital’s R3.7 billion offer for building materials distributor Iliad Africa was called off yesterday, leaving the market guessing whether the withdrawal was because of higher corporate financing costs in tight global credit markets.
Filed under: International News
Frothy milk prices, subprime fears and weaker job prospects have undercut consumption pillars of the German and US economies, studies on both sides of the Atlantic show.
