Our current fashion market is dominated by a few key retailers. The fashion market talks about, promotes and purchases mostly overseas brands that have somehow managed to – with enough marketing budget and strategy – convince masses of South Africans that they offer superior product quality. It’s in the names like Topshop, Zara, Cotton On,...Continue Reading

Africa is the second-fastest mobile adoption market in the world with almost a billion mobile phone subscribers. In South Africa, 50% of active mobile phones are smartphone devices. With this, advertisers now struggle to keep pace with the unrelenting state of flux of the local and global media landscape and the increasingly fragmented and highly...Continue Reading

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Free download for a limited time only! A closer look into the popularity of the “Informal Market” as a preferred destination of buying goods compared to the “Formal retail market”. This report explores both the structured as well as the unstructured informal retail market where people buy goods, in order to help brands gain a...Continue Reading

A place to get up to date with what is happening around the community through other community members when socialising at the Spaza shop. A Spaza shop is a place where people can meet their friends over a smoke or a piece of gum. A place where one can bump into that lady or gentleman...Continue Reading

Music has one voice. Youth music across Africa is becoming one and can no longer be classified as a specific genre (Nigerian, South African, Hip Hop or Kwaito) With the increase in collaboration of music artist across the continent, it has become more and more of a norm to hear multiple African dialects in a...Continue Reading

Continued frustration from black consumers as some brands still do not fully understand them. The black mass market is not a homogenous market because within the black mass market there is so much diversity and brands cannot approach it with a one size fits all approach. The black rainbow consists of different ethnic groups each...Continue Reading

The continued influx of foreign brands entering the South African market such as H&M’s current arrival, means our South African consumer is becoming spoilt for choice day by day. This means that big local retail brands have to step up, as they no longer are seen as the benchmark anymore. Click here To download your...Continue Reading

OUT NOW! Also includes a video report survey (VOX POPS) View sample report and research methodology:Intro_Black Man Success_TrendER The objective of this research report is to uncover what it means to be a successful black man in Africa today. We look into the changes in perceptions and how the modern Black African man has redefined...Continue Reading

  The TM3 (TrendER Mass Market Model) The black market is not as homogenous as we would like to think We have not had a lot of methodologies that guide us into understanding this market and have therefore relied on Living Standards Measures alone as the basis of our communication. The “Black market” in its...Continue Reading