E-commerce
Mr Price Group in e-commerce sales boom
Mr Price Group reported a 64.1% increase in full-year online sales, with the same figure from its core apparel and sports brands more than doubling in the same period.
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E-commerce
Mr Price in all-cash deal to buy Yuppiechef
Mr Price said on Monday that it has reached an agreement to buy 100% of Yuppiechef, an “omnichannel” retail business focused on kitchenware, for about R470-million in cash.
E-commerce
Mr Price sees e-commerce boom after hard lockdown
Despite overall trade taking a hit due to the Covid-19 fallout and lockdown, Durban-based national apparel and home retail giant Mr Price Group has seen a surge in online sales and has increased its market share post the “hard” lockdown.
IT services
4Sight Holdings in JV with former Mr Price CIO
JSE-listed technology company 4Sight Holdings has formed a partnership with Unplugg Group, an IT company led by former Mr Price chief information officer Antony Hlungwane.
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MTN to host ‘household names’ as MVNOs
MTN South Africa is set to help launch consumer brands as mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), according to the company’s CEO. The brands include “household names”, MTN South Africa
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ThumbzUp set for US, Asia expansion
ThumbzUp, the local developer of mobile point-of-sale systems available in South Africa through Absa and in Australia through ANZ, is on the verge of signing significant new deals that will take it into
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Cell C attracts a million MVNO clients
Cell C’s mobile virtual network operator platform, which allows other brands to launch mobile services using its network infrastructure, has attracted more than a million end-user customers, the telecommunications operator said on Monday. Brands such as
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Local MVNOs get Wi-Fi offload
MVN-X, the company that enables niche mobile providers such as MRP Mobile and Boksel, has signed a deal with AlwaysOn to allow users to roam seamlessly across to 2 500 Wi-Fi hotspots around the country. MVN-X has helped launched a
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The SA MVNOs that offer the best deals
Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) me&you mobile has performed well in Tariffic’s latest quarterly “perfect package tracker”, offering the best packages in three of five user categories modelled by the company. Tariffic’s latest quarterly tracker
Duncan McLeod
Why your bank may soon be your telco
South Africa has not been particularly keen on the mobile virtual network operator model. It’s lagged most developed and some developing markets in launching mobile brands on the back of cellular