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Electronics and Appliance Specialist Retailers in South Africa

The growth of electronics and appliance specialist retailers in 2011 took a knock as the level of defaulting credit purchase customers continued to go up. Retailers like JD Group generate at least 60% of their sales from credit sales and this trend ...

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Furniture and Furnishings Stores in South Africa

Furniture and furnishings stores continued to experience difficult business conditions in 2011. This was due to a serious rise in the consumer default rate for credit purchases and hence, slow growth due to reduced income as a result of bad debts. ...

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Grocery Retailers in South Africa

Since the emergence of the recession in 2009, retailers in South Africa have been making efforts to ensure they gain loyalty from their customers. The year 2011 saw retailers introduce quite a number of loyalty programmes to ensure they retain their ...

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Homeshopping in South Africa

Sales volumes increased significantly in early 2011 as homeshopping retailers continued to aggressively market products on offer. Growth of 6% in value terms was recorded for the whole category in 2011 with Verimark the leading company. This has been...

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Internet Retailing in South Africa

Over the last two years of the review period, the rate of growth in internet access levels in South Africa has significantly grown. This has helped boost the sales value of internet retailing for the whole country. The leading internet service ...

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Leisure and Personal Goods Specialist Retailers in South Africa

The general cost living for the consumer went up at a remarkable level in 2011. This discouraged the growth in sales value for the whole category; instead constant growth was maintained in contrast with the previous year. Consumers were closely ...

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Mixed Retailers in South Africa

The entry of Walmart into South Africa through acquiring Massmart Holdings has been the major talking point within the mixed retail channel. Massmart is expected to expand its operations through its various retail store formats, including its variety...

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Retailing in South Africa

Over the past year the living costs of South Africans have drastically increased. Food prices have significantly increased on almost every basic food commodity, at the same time cost for utilities such as electricity and water has more than doubled ...

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Apparel Specialist Retailers in South Africa

Business conditions improved in the year 2011 resulting in steady value sales for apparel retailers. The growth in value sales was stimulated by an improvement in employment levels at the beginning of the year. Consumer confidence however took a ...

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Direct Selling in South Africa

Direct selling has significantly grown over the past two years of the review period; the post-recession period. This growth in channel size was stimulated by the increase in internet access levels in South Africa offer the review period. The ...

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