The Pineslopes Boulevard shopping centre in Fourways, Johannesburg, has added an outdoor big screen in its parking lot as an addition to the recently launched roadhouse-style Drive-in Diner. Read more

COVID-19 Retail Shopper / Consumer Shopper Marketing Trends

This week the legal tobacco industry and the Government go head-to-head in the Cape Town High Court to determine the legality of the ban on cigarettes. Read more

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The City of Joburg (CoJ) has approved a raft of rates relief measures totalling nearly half a billion rand, for residential and multi-purpose residential properties as well as business properties impacted by the lockdown from March 26. Read more

Business Intelligence COVID-19 Economic Trading Environment

JOHANNESBURG - Pick n Pay yesterday flagged that its earnings would more than halve in the six months to the end of August following the country’s Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. Read more

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New Jersey, US — The US government will pay Johnson & Johnson (J&J) more than $1bn for 100-million doses of its potential coronavirus vaccine, as it stocks up on vaccines and drugs in an attempt to tame the pandemic. Read more

Business Intelligence COVID-19 Product Sustainability

Cape Town – The Competition Tribunal has clamped down on Cambridge Food Jozini, a subsidiary of Massmart Holdings, for excessive pricing of 25kg of maize meal, from R129.99 to R159.99 in April. Read more

COVID-19 FMCG Product Retail Shopper / Consumer Shopper Marketing

The country's biggest beer maker, SAB, said yesterday that it had abandoned R5billion worth of capital investment projects in South Africa on the 12-week alcohol ban imposed by the government as part of its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: L... Read more

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