If you want to get a sense of how few options domestic and international retailers have when trying to find partners, then consider the case of Côte d’Ivoire. In Côte d’Ivoire, there are two leading retailers: Prosuma, develops Casino's stores in the country and...
At the end of last week, Shoprite released a little nugget of information about its Nigerian store operations: more than three quarters of the products it sells - 76%, to be precise - are procured locally. Shoprite has built relationships with 300 suppliers,...
In Q2 2015, the average GDP of sub Saharan Africa expanded at the slowest pace since the height of the financial crisis in 2009. Commodities-rich countries such as Nigeria and Angola have been particularly hard hit. Over the course of the second half of the year we...