Ivory Coast
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CFAO brings Carrefour’s Supeco banner to Côte d’Ivoire
CFAO, Carrefour’s West African franchisee, has brought the French retailer’s Supeco banner to Abidjan, opening a store in the working-class suburb of Yopougon. CFAO also operates three Carrefour outlets in Abidjan (two hypermarkets and a supermarket), all of which are located in shopping malls. Supeco combines a relatively limited range of SKUs (around 2,000) and
31st January 2020
Categories: SagaRetail News - Carrefour - Supeco - CFAO - Cote d'Ivoire - Ivory Coast
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Sagaci Research relaunches the KFC Index
En francais ci-dessous Kwa lugha ya Kiswahili hapa chini KFC Index identifies Central African CFA Franc as the most overvalued currency in Africa Sagaci Research, the leading independent pan-African market research and market intelligence firm, has released its “KFC Index” for January 2020. This twice yearly index utilises the prices of KFC chicken buckets in
31st January 2020
Categories: SagaRetail News - Lesotho - Egypt - Ghana - Angola - Cote d'Ivoire - Gabon - Kenya - Morocco - Mozambique - Nigeria - Senegal - Sudan - Tanzania - Tunisia - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe - South Africa - Ivory Coast
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Still burning cash, Jumia positions itself as an online bridge to Africa
Africa-focused internet retailer Jumia saw its revenue rise at an annual rate of 19.4% during Q3 2019, to €40.1 million, while its operating loss widened by 34.6%, to €54.6 million. Gross merchandise volume (the total value of orders, including those of third parties using its platform, before the deduction of any discounts or vouchers and
14th November 2019
Categories: SagaRetail News - Retail - Africa - Egypt - Retail & Shopping Malls - Ghana - Algeria - Cameroon - Cote d'Ivoire - Kenya - Nigeria - Senegal - Tunisia - South Africa - Ivory Coast
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CFAO brings Carrefour’s Supeco banner to sub-Saharan Africa
On April 27th, CFAO (Carrefour’s regional franchisee) brought the hard-discount Supeco banner to West Africa, opening a store in a former cinema in the Senegalese capital of Dakar. This marks the beginning of the strategic shift towards smaller stores and lower-income consumers that CFAO Retail CEO Jean-Christophe Brindeau spoke of in January (see our previous
30th April 2019
Categories: SagaRetail News - Retail & Shopping Malls - Ivory Coast
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Jumia IPO gives a peek under the hood of African e-commerce
As had been widely anticipated (see our previous story), Jumia is to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Founded in 2012 by Berlin-based Rocket Internet (which currently holds a 20.6% stake), Jumia is part-owned by telecommunications companies MTN (29.7%) and Millicom International Cellular (9.6%), insurance company AXA (5.8%), and alcoholic drinks giant Pernod Ricard
14th March 2019
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Egypt - Retail & Shopping Malls - Ghana - Algeria - Cameroon - Cote d'Ivoire - Kenya - Morocco - Nigeria - Rwanda - Senegal - Tanzania - Tunisia - Uganda - South Africa - Ivory Coast
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Yum! Brands expands its restaurant chains in Africa
KFC has arrived in Côte d’Ivoire, opening its first outlet in Abidjan during April. Meanwhile, another subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Pizza Hut, has entered the Tanzanian market, opening a restaurant in Dar Es Salaam. But not everyone is happy about the spread of fast food in Africa. Speaking to the New York Times newspaper in November
27th June 2018
Categories: Foodservice - SagaRetail News - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Ghana - Corporate news - Cote d'Ivoire - Tanzania - Ivory Coast
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Sagaci Omnibus available across 11 cities in Africa
The Sagaci Omnibus is a fast and cost-effective consumer survey. You can use it to assess brand awareness, understand consumer behaviours, measure advertisement recalls or gauge public opinion. With Sagaci Omnibus you share the setup costs of quantitative research with other clients, lowering your survey costs. You simply define your questions, and the pricing is
11th December 2017
Categories: Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Ghana - Telecom - Angola - Construction & Real Estate - Travel & Tourism - Financial Services - Industrial Goods - Cameroon - Agriculture - Cote d'Ivoire - Automotive - DR Congo - Distributors - Pharmaceuticals - Ethiopia - Kenya - Mozambique - Nigeria - Tanzania - South Africa - Ivory Coast
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Shopping centers across Africa Report – 2017 edition
The fifth edition of the Shopping Centers across Africa Report is already available. As investment and interest from mall developers grows across the continent, the realities in the different countries are becoming more diverse. From a more sophisticated market in Northern and Southern Africa, to a close-to-saturation retail landscape in Kenya or the challenging economic
11th December 2017
Categories: Egypt - Retail & Shopping Malls - Ghana - Algeria - Angola - Countries - Benin - Botswana - Burundi - Cameroon - Cote d'Ivoire - DR Congo - Equatorial Guinea - Ethiopia - Gabon - Kenya - Libya - Morocco - Mozambique - Nigeria - Rwanda - Senegal - Sudan - Tanzania - Togo - Tunisia - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe - South Sudan - Sierra Leone - Congo - Mali - South Africa - Namibia - Ivory Coast
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Sagaci Research in the news – How fast food reveals secrets of the economy (BBC)
How much will a Big Mac cost you in Lima? Or Abu Dhabi? The answers can tell you a lot about “purchasing power parity (PPP)” – whether exchange rates mean that a product costs the same in different countries. A tool to make this theory more “digestible” was launched by The Economist in 1986. It
6th February 2017
Categories: Consumer - Egypt - Ghana - Algeria - Angola - Cameroon - Cote d'Ivoire - DR Congo - Ethiopia - Kenya - Nigeria - Senegal - Tanzania - Uganda - Congo - South Africa - Ivory Coast
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What are we reading about Africa this week – September 8th, 2015
Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong, by Morten Jerven – Africa – Financial Times Growth rates for sub-Saharan Africa outstrip those of almost all other regions in the world save emerging Asia, so it seems such contrarians have a point. But Morten Jerven is more interested in exploding a different piece of conventional wisdom: whether
8th September 2015
Categories: Retail & Shopping Malls - Angola - Cote d'Ivoire - Nigeria - South Africa - Ivory Coast
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