For retailers this holiday season, everything is relative when you consider last year’s widespread lockdown of physical spaces and an accelerated shift to digital commerce in response to the global pandemic. According to Salesforce’s latest quarterly Shopping Index, global digital revenue grew by 11% year-on-year (YoY) in Q3, a much higher increase than was seen […]
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If there’s one thing the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s that we shouldn’t try to predict the future. After all, who could have foreseen a pandemic that is still wreaking havoc across the globe nearly two years later? For a large number of businesses, 2021 was unquestionably a year of transformation. They were forced
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Businesses have been through a lot in the last 18 months. As we near the end of 2021, a year that has put many to the test, it is useful to pause and reflect on lessons learned that might be applied in the new year. There are numerous advantages to reflecting on what worked and
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Enterprise supplier development funds are prominent in SA, partly due to the change in the BBBEE ratings methodology, which made it the most significant element on the scorecard. But it’s not making the impact it should. An interest rate of 15% a year. That was the rate (prime + 5%) we were offered by one
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Written by Kelly Sin Hidge, The Hope Factory “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford The spirit of collaboration and strategic partnerships in business is a powerful tool for success and something that is a vital building block to achieve better collaborative initiatives and national goals such
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Reports of neglect, abuse, and violence against children in South Africa have increased by over 35% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, this is according to Child Welfare South Africa. Often, these events occur in places where children should feel safe – such as at home or in a classroom. National early learning social
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In-depth research uncovers real impact of COVID-19 on preferential procurement and ESD Creating conversations for improvement, a starting point for collaboration and the heightened need to optimise ESD budget use and learnings. These are just some of the key reasons why Edge Growth conducts their annual survey into the state of ESD and SME Development.
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According to the World Food Programme, 811 million people across the globe still go to bed on an empty every night and one in three people suffer from some form of malnutrition. In South Africa, at least 3 million children hungry according to Stats SA. Andra Nel, CSI Manager at KFC South Africa asks, how
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Authors of study: Jay Joseph, Helen Borland, Marc Orlitzky, and Adam Lindgreen Research into corporate sustainability strategies, and tactics that business can implement to achieve more equitable social and environmental outcomes, has been an ongoing area of study for decades. More recently, theoretical developments on sustainable business practice have highlighted the importance when it comes
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