Growing significantly in the past three years, Quickmart holds the vision of becoming the number one grocery retailer in Kenya. Recent successes include new stores opening with great feedback, and Deputy CEO Jacques Dome is optimistic about the...
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CONCORD RETAIL SOLUTIONS: Resilient Concord Retains Positive Momentum
Enterprise Africa catches up with leading refrigeration and equipment supplier, Concord Retails Solutions to see how the innovative business has managed to maintain momentum of 2022 in a tough industry. Sale and Marketing Executive, Scott Messenger...
K-WAY MANUFACTURERS: Deep-Rooted K-Way Thrives in Tough SA Climate
K-Way Manufacturers is providing South Africans with clothing that stands up to the elements, allowing people to keep hiking, running, climbing, and camping, whatever mother nature brings. Made in Cape Town, and sold through Cape Union Mart, the...
JUMBO CLOTHING: Stylish Jumbo Shapes for Further Expansion
Understanding and building communities like few others, Jumbo drives value for customers…
WOOLWORTHS: Woolworths Drives Good Business Journey
One of south Africa’s most historic and favourite retailers, Woolworths is deepening its connection with consumers by placing sustainability at the heart of everything it does…
GAYDONS MOTOR SPARES: Gaydons in Driver Seat on Covid Recovery Journey
By providing unrivalled quality, service, and price, Gaydons Motor Spares is building on its reputation…
WANAWAKE INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES: Powerful Player Provides Purposeful Progress
Sean and Saretha Sandham have created a leading import and distribution business for the industrial products sector. Coming out of a challenging set of circumstances, this enterprise has boomed, seeing fantastic growth while others have scaled...
BUILD IT: Quality Materials Ensure That No Place Is Like Home
Supplying quality building materials and supremely serving communities has been Build it’s purpose for more than 35 years. Born of humble beginnings, the Group has enjoyed an explosion of growth in this time to now preside over 404 stores across...
NOVA PROPERTY GROUP: Developments Continue at Super Nova
At its heart, explains CEO Dominique Haese, Nova Properties is a specialist management company that itself owns a packed portfolio of residential, commercial, and mixed-use property, and fulfils a particular and specialised rental collection and...
SHOPRITE GROUP: A Future-Fit Force for Good
Since the opening of its first stores in 1979, Shoprite Holdings has maintained the same bold vision for the future, which has enabled it to become the dominant food retailer today in South Africa and further afield, into nine other African...
BATA South Africa: A Confident Step Forward for Bata South Africa
Just a few months ago, leading South African footwear manufacturer, Bata South Africa –well-known for creating much-loved products for consumers around Africa as part of the international Bata Group – was consolidating and searching for...
ACKERMANS: Vision of Value at Ackermans’ Heart
Family comes first, and always will: this is the central doctrine shared by South Africa’s value retailer, and that which originally inspired founder Gus Ackerman to cut the ribbon on his historic first store in Wynberg; immediately, he succeeded...
BATA SOUTH AFRICA: Strategy Step-Up Strengthens Bata Ambitions
Last year, a leading South African manufacturer, creating much-loved products for consumers around Africa, was consolidating and searching for opportunities post-pandemic. Michael Wyatt, MD at Bata South Africa – the famous maker of robust school...
CONCORD RETAIL SOLUTIONS: Concord Embraces Complete Retail Solutions
In May 2019, Concord Refrigeration (a division of Southey Holdings) was busy working with some of the country’s leading retailers, providing refrigerated display cabinets as well as heated display cabinets. After the pandemic, rioting, and further...
ALLIGATOR MANUFACTURING: Snap Up Loyal Customers Through the Power of Promotional Products
For a litany of reasons, promotional products have for the longest time been cited as a crucial element of the success of virtually any business, and a vital part of many marketing strategies. The Promotional Products Association International...
JCDECAUX: Transforming the African Out-of-Home Advertising Landscape
A whole host of factors; among them growing urbanisation, increasing digitisation and accelerating technological innovation within the sector; are conspiring to result in the need of advertising which communicates faster, more effectively and with...
SUPERBALIST: SA’s Foremost Online Style Destination
Following the two-plus years of severe restrictions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, South African consumers have, like so many others, been forced to navigate uncharted territory in coming to terms with the pandemic and the subsequent...
ARRIE NEL: Family-First Pharmacies Committed to Community-Centric Care
There are now 104 Arrie Nel pharmacies populating the South African pharmaceutical landscape, and this number is constantly increasing, employing just under 4000 people. Now approaching its 25th anniversary as the Arrie Nel Pharmacy group, formed...