Did you know that Boxer Superstores’ original logo featured a muscular, masculine figure known as the “Boxer Man”? Introduced in the 1990s, this logo was chosen to personify the brand’s mission to...
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Roman’s Pizza’s inaugural franchisee was a ‘pie-oneer’ in more ways than one! When John Nicolakakis joined the family business, he received a R10,000 joining fee from the first franchisee. However, just...
Shoprite in Mabopane township became the most profitable branch in South Africa, generating over R1 million in sales per day. Shoprite store Due to the overwhelming number of customers, they had to build two more Shoprite...
Cerebos is a long established brand that is a market leader in the retail salt market in the Southern Africa region. Cerebos’ industrial business supplies quality salt to the food manufacturing sector, while the retail...
The Story & Pride Behind One of South Africa’s Favorite Snacks: Simba Katlego Maphai, co-founder of Yoco, was part of the incubation team sent to Nigeria by his previous employer(RocketInternet) to set up jumia...
Computicket was the first company in the world to develop a successful computerised reservations booking system. The Story & Pride Behind One of South Africa’s Favorite Snacks: Simba The company was founded in...
David Bradlow, founder of Bradlows, was born David Adolph Brudno in Smorgon, a small town near Vilna in Czarist, Russells. 50 South African Brands That Changed Their Names He first came to Johannesburg in 1897 at the age of...
Before PayFast launched in 2007, online payments were really unserved in South Africa. The Insane Story of Podcast & Chill With MacG To receive online payments, you needed a merchant account at a bank but you couldn’t...
The name ‘AfriSam’ stems from the word ‘Afri’, which refers to its African heritage, and ‘Sam’ which comes from the word samente or disamente, which means cement in six of South Africa’s official...
Honey Fashion Accessories was founded on the back of Gary Carlisle’s frustration. With 10 years’ experience in the jewellery industry, he’d grown tired of dealing with retailers, due to the fact that they always...