Food and beverage company PepsiCo has launched the Kgodiso Development Fund, a five-year, R600 million investment to help transform the food system in South Africa. It will look to create ‘shared value’ solutions that ultimately help build a sustainable food system by creating local employment opportunities and increasing local procurement and supplier diversity. “PepsiCo aims

Checkers Sitari and the entire Sitari Village Mall located close to Somerset West, Cape Town have become South Africa’s first premium supermarket and shopping centre to run entirely off renewable energy from wind and solar sources. This is part of Checkers’ ongoing commitment to environmental sustainability and comes as the retailer launches an environmental campaign

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Woolworths Holdings Limited (WHL) is proud to announce that it has become the first major South African retailer to be a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Women Empowerment Principles. Developed in partnership with the United Nations Women and the UN Global Compact Office, the Women Empowerment Principles (WEP)

Muungamunwe resident Dzhavhelo Mudau has risen through the ranks at the Shoprite Group and was recently promoted to Divisional Financial Manager at OK Furniture. Passionate about accounting and mathematics, Dzhavhelo set his sights on attending university and moved to Johannesburg in 2014. With support from the Thuthuka Bursary Programme, of which the Group was a

Philip Morris South Africa (PMSA) has appointed Buena Barnes as its new Financial Director. The appointment underpins the organisation’s goal to replace cigarettes with less harmful alternatives for those who choose to continue using tobacco, as soon as possible. “As a company we are leading the transformation of the industry in our pursuit to go

The Shoprite Group is further expanding its support of KwaZulu-Natal communities by investing in an additional 30 food gardens in the province. This builds on the success of the more than 15 gardens – including Thubelihle Special Opportunity School and Hlabana Magalele Supplies – in the province already supported by Shoprite. The retailer is incubating

South African online shoe store, DC.ONE releases a brand new app for both iOS and Google Play devices. Available for download from February 2022, customers in South Africa and SADC countries will have instant access to their favourite footwear styles from their mobile devices. Since the majority of the traffic to the site is from

SPAR Group Ltd South Africa earned the Top Employers South Africa 2022 certification for the ninth consecutive year. The company considers it an honour to be counted in the world’s top organisations through this recognition. The retention of the valued accolade bears testimony to SPAR South Africa’s focus on people practices and processes. The continuous

Trading conditions continued to be impacted by various levels of COVID-19 restaurant trading restrictions in the six months to 31 December 2021 (“the period”), including a prohibition on sit-down trade in July 2021. These challenging conditions were exacerbated by widespread civil unrest in specifically KwaZulu-Natal (“KZN”) in the second week of July 2021. This resulted

Woolworths maintains its position as leaders in quality, newness & innovation by taking home awards for eight of their food products. With Woolworths regularly launching new and exciting items to an already impressive food offering, it’s no wonder they’ve stolen the show at the 2021 Food Review Symrise New Product Competition Awards. Hosted earlier this

With a majority female leadership team and almost 80 years of combined retail experience, the team at Shoprite Verulam Highway is proof that the retail industry is definitely no longer just a man’s world. At the helm is branch manager Farhana Pillay who joined the Shoprite Group in 1989 as a part-time cashier at Checkers