Consumer
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Carrefour adds clicks to its bricks
Carrefour franchisee Majid Al Futtaim has signed an agreement with online retailer Jumia to offer online shopping in Kenya from the beginning of next year. Simultaneously, CFAO, the French retailer’s franchisee in Francophone West and Central Africa, will also sell its products on Jumia’s online platform in Cameroon, Côte d’ivoire, and Senegal. According to Frank
11th December 2018
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Cameroon - Cote d'Ivoire - Kenya - Senegal
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Nakumatt and Uchumi continue their downward spirals
A number of suppliers have joined Githunguri Dairy in filing for Kenyan supermarket chain Uchumi to be wound up, while rival Nakumatt is faring little better. More than 20 of Uchumi’s creditors are seeking to recover debts amounting to KES900 million (USD8.8 million). The retailer was also recently evicted from its headquarters in Nairobi Industrial
21st November 2018
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Kenya
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Empty shelves prompt Zimbabwean government to temporarily lift import ban
On October 23rd, The Zimbabwean government removed a ban on the importation of basic commodities. The products affected include bottled water‚ cereals and cooking oil. This decision comes in the wake of shortages that had led to panic buying and seen businesses ranging from fast food chain KFC to clothing retailer Edgars temporarily shut their
31st October 2018
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Zimbabwe
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Sagaci Insights: Putting a number on modern grocery retail sales
Modern formats, such as supermarkets and hypermarkets, will account for 7.5% of grocery retail sales across the whole of Africa in 2018, according to a new study published by Sagaci Research. Defining a “modern” store as one with a sales area of more than 1,000m² or as part of a chain with at least three
26th October 2018
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls
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Project Watch: Shining a light on solar power demand
Localised solar power is often touted as a solution to Africa’s unmet energy needs, enabling communities to leapfrog large-scale electricity transmission networks that are expensive to build and maintain (in addition to often being unreliable in many areas) in a manner analogous to how mobile phone networks have superseded fixed-line telephony across much of the
26th October 2018
Categories: Consumer
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SagaRetail: Tracking the evolution of modern retail in Africa
Do you want to track the evolution of modern retail in Africa and gain a better understanding of the market positions and strategies of modern retailers (local, regional and international)?
26th October 2018
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Sectors - Retail & Shopping Malls
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Sonae suffers another African setback
S2 Africa, a partnership between Portuguese supermarket chain Sonae and London-based investment fund Satya Capital, has shuttered the three supermarkets it had been operating in the Mozambican capital of Maputo.
25th October 2018
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Mozambique
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Go small or go home
Pick N Pay CEO Richard Brasher sees smaller stores as key to the South African supermarket chain’s international growth strategy. “There’s a big opportunity in the rest of Africa for things that are smaller, with tighter ranges and more efficient … and if we look further afield, whether its East or West Africa [the retailer
25th October 2018
Categories: SagaRetail News - Lesotho - Swaziland - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Ghana - Botswana - Nigeria - Zambia - Zimbabwe - Namibia
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Welcome to “Market 3.0”
Prince Ebeano, a Nigerian supermarket chain with seven branches, is trying to hybridise the modern and traditional retail experiences for consumers in the middle class Lagosian suburb of Lekki.
5th October 2018
Categories: Foodservice - SagaRetail News - Consumer - Nigeria
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South African variety store chain looks north for growth
Miniso is not the only variety-store chain seeking to expand in the sub-Saharan market. South Africa-based discount variety chain The Crazy Store currently has 347 stores, including 14 in Namibia and two in Botswana, with more on the way in both countries and longer term plans to expand into other sub-Saharan markets. Having opened its
5th September 2018
Categories: SagaRetail News - Consumer - Retail & Shopping Malls - Botswana - Namibia