SA must work to retain retail leadership

Rwanda, Nigeria, Namibia, Tanzania and Gabon occupy the top five places of the inaugural AT Kearney African Retail Development Index (ARDI). South Africa ranks seventh due to the developed nature of its retail market. The new study by AT Kearney is designed to help...

Uphill battle for chief customer officers

At least 47% of chief customer officers (CCOs), identified by Forrester in its eighth annual CCO evaluation, work at firms with $1-billion or more in annual revenue. In addition, 31% of these large firms are S&P 500 companies, which means that more than 6% of...

Net1, Supa Pesa partner in Malawi

South Africa-based Net1 Mobile Solutions, a business unit of Net 1 UEPS Technologies, together with partner Supa Pesa has expanded its Advance Airtime African footprint with the launch of TeleKom Networks Malawi (TNM) Airtime Credit service, Pasavute. Pasavute, which...

Rectron wins at D-Link awards

At a recent awards ceremony in Rome, Italy, D-Link, a global leader in design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications acknowledged its channel partners in the annual Distributor Excellence Awards. A major...