Shift in market factors impact negatively on demand planning ability
April 6, 2022
The last two years have been particularly challenging for the South African economy. Lockdowns imposed to limit and alleviate pressure...
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Trends
Pet food and pet care categories surprisingly resilient during pandemic
February 14, 2022
Despite the fact that many retail categories saw large sales decline during the Covid-19 pandemic, one category to buck this...
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SA’s packaging sector bounces back
January 25, 2022
South Africa’s packaging industry demonstrated incredible resilience in the face of the country’s imposition of national lockdowns during 2020, with...
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The glass half empty: major declines in SA’s alcoholic sector in 2020
January 10, 2022
The national lockdown enforced in South Africa as part of the country’s efforts to manage the Covid-19 pandemic delivered a...
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Energy drinks buck beverage category trend to record sales growth in 2020
December 1, 2021
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 had a negative impact on overall beverage sales in South Africa as...
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SA dairy trends: Covid-19 pandemic shifts consumer demand
September 7, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted both in shifts in consumer demand for dairy products as well as changed consumer purchase...
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COVID-19 lockdown impacts significantly on beverage categories
October 23, 2020
The bottled water, energy drinks and sparkling soft drinks categories are three distinctively different categories which have all suffered very...
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A bleak outlook for packaging in 2020
August 13, 2020
South Africa's packaging industry could decline by more than 9% in 2020 as a result of severely impaired disposable income...
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Is traditional print advertising dying?
February 11, 2020
Broadsheets inserted into newspapers are proving a boon for newspaper publishers as traditional advertising declines The imminent death of traditional print...
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Growth in energy drink products expected to slow down as SA follows global trends
October 28, 2019
A growing number of media reports regarding the negative health implications of energy drinks have done little to dampen South...
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