Takealot Group’s profitable logistics arm targets new revenue streams beyond its own platforms, as online retail continues expanding.
SA’s biggest online shopping site sees a 14% increase in customers from last year, reaching 4.8 million active shoppers.
Takealot Group boosts investment in its online fashion retailer, to modify its business model amid rising competition from Chinese multinational e-tailers
SA’s biggest e-tailer establishes a high-tech security control centre in Johannesburg to monitor its fleet of delivery trucks.
South Africa’s biggest e-tailer expands its dark stores across the country, to better fend off rivals after the recent arrival of Amazon.co.za.
Amazon.co.za will create an incremental number of e-commerce and logistics jobs when it debuts, say local e-tailers.
The e-commerce giant’s imminent entry into SA is expected to shake-up the online marketplace, provoking a battle to tempt SMEs.
The e-commerce giant says it created around 20 000 direct jobs and over 13 000 indirect employment opportunities, and contributes billions to SA’s GDP annually.
SA’s biggest e-tailer records 3 000% growth in sales of generators, inverters and UPS devices since 2020.
One of the major stumbling blocks has been the difficulty around first-time delivery successes, says Charl Fouche, COO of AfriGIS.
Inside Takealot's world-class supply chain
A CILTSA webinar, hosted on 25 August, supplied a glimpse at Takealot's key objectives and how Oracle WMS Cloud is used to manage their warehouse operations.
The local online retailer makes a number of organisational changes, with founder and CEO Kim Reid transitioning to the new role of group CEO.
Local e-commerce players Takealot, OneDayOnly and Payflex say they will never be satisfied with a phased approach, until e-commerce operates unfettered.