Exactly half a year has passed since we declared a national state of disaster in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

COVID-19 Trends

It’s been 168 days since the start of lockdown and the country is slowly adjusting to the economy opening up and restrictions being lifted. Five months of lockdown have radically altered consum Read more

Business Intelligence COVID-19 Ecommerce FMCG Retail Shopper / Consumer Shopper Marketing

The Competition Commission’s case against a small industrial company for excessive pricing of dust masks has raised concerns about overreach and problematic legal precedent Read more

Business Intelligence COVID-19 Ecommerce Economic FMCG Retail

European retailers continue to focus their energy on developing ways to address new consumer priorities, by adapting off and online store formats to the new shopping behavior. Read more

COVID-19 Retail Shopper / Consumer Shopper Marketing Trends

The national minimum wage should be frozen until the country is over the financial crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, says a large employer organisation. Read more

COVID-19 Economic Retail Shopper / Consumer Shopper Marketing

JOHANNESBURG - Sea Harvest reported a 4 percent slump in profits for the six months to the end of June as Covid-19 supply chain constraints hit its operations. Read more

COVID-19 Manufacturing Trends Wholesale

The current coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdown period continue to leave the food and beverage industry teetering on the brink. Every day, more and more restaurateurs face the grim prospect of closing their doors, many of them permanently. Read more

COVID-19 FMCG Private Label Retail Shopper / Consumer Shopper Marketing