Jan 30, 2020
Private pensions in South Africa continue to outdo take-home pay. In the last six and a half years, real private pensions increased by 21%, resulting in the average private pensioner being 18% better off. This is remarkable when compared to BankservAfrica’s...
Jan 30, 2020
As South African retail faces an increasingly tough economic climate, international brands persevere despite these challenges. Decathlon, a French sporting goods retailer is the latest international brand set to increase its footprint on SA soil. With over 1 500...
Jan 30, 2020
The worldwide smartphone market failed to sustain its growth momentum in the fourth quarter, causing shipments for the full year of 2019 to decline by 2,2%compared to 2018, according to preliminary research results from IHS Markit. Shipments totaled 1,38-billion units...
Jan 30, 2020
Kathy Gibson is at IDC Directions 2020 in Sandton – Is South Africa running out of time to turn its economy around? It may well be at the point of do or die right now. Things are tough, says Gina Schoeman, director, economist and head of research at Citibank...
Jan 29, 2020
Business interruption catapulted from fifth position in last year’s Allianz Risk Barometer (23% of responses) to the top business risk (31% of responses) in Africa and the Middle East this year as larger and more complex business interruption (BI) losses...
Jan 29, 2020
Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users are on track to reach 1,57-billion units in 2020, an increase of 3% year over year, according to Gartner. In 2019, worldwide smartphone sales declined 2%, the first time since 2008 that the global smartphone market...
