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Activists abandon #BoycottWoolworths campaign

Written by Super User on 19 August 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Lameez Omarjee

Activists said they were ending the #BoycottWoolworths campaign to broaden the campaign to target all Israeli products in any store.

What’s keeping SME owners awake at night?

Written by Super User on 16 August 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

Despite the current economic headwinds, small business owners are still optimistic about growth and flexible enough to turn challenges of a highly dynamic and rapidly changing business environment into opportunities, says Mags Ponnan, head of customer value propositions at FNB Business.

Pick n Pay shareholders approve deal to collapse pyramid structure

Written by Super User on 25 July 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Robert Laing

Grocery chain Pick n Pay gained shareholder approval for a deal allowing the Ackerman family to retain control while collapsing the pyramid structure.

Pick n Pay minorities oppose new structure

Written by Super User on 21 July 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Ann Crotty

Pick n Pay’s annual general meeting (AGM) next week looks certain to be another humdinger as smaller shareholders vent their opposition to the proposed restructuring of the Ackerman family’s control.

DTI heading to Zimbabwe to thrash out ban on SA goods

Written by Super User on 15 July 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Xolisa Phillip

The Department of Trade and Industry is due to send a technical team to Zimbabwe in a day or two, armed with a list of more than 100 items that are at the centre of a trade impasse between SA and its northern neighbour.

R1.2bn plastic bag tax diverted

Written by Super User on 14 July 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Andrea Chothia

More than R1.2 billion collected from taxes on plastic bags over the past 13 years has not gone to creating jobs for youth in the green industry as it was meant to.

Pick n Pay gets thumbs-up in Fitch’s final report

Written by Super User on 07 July 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Robert Laing

The second stage of grocery chain Pick n Pay’s long-term turnaround programme is progressing well, ratings agency Fitch said in a report released.

SA retailers…incredulous, insane and in deep trouble

Written by Super User on 22 June 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

Staff Writer: By Aki Kalliatakis

Retailers are fond of telling us their special offers are incredible or crazy. How right they are! Because in many respects the current spate of retail price cuts really is unbelievable, if not downright insane.

Chair in Shopping Centre Studies founded at UP

Written by Super User on 21 June 2016. Posted in No Category Tags.

A partnership between the South African Council for Shopping Centres (SACSC) and the Department of Construction Economics in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) at the University of Pretoria (UP), has resulted in the founding of a Chair in Shopping Centre Studies.