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A shortish Tatler for a shortish week, and as always, we’re here to deliver it straight to your inbox. Overall,...

Checkers ramps up innovation | K-beauty now at Clicks 

Wednesday was April Fool’s Day, a day that normally stirs very little interest in us. But this year was different,...

Shoprite DC achieves 10% waste to landfill | The Body Shop looks good at 50

We have a full bag of tricks in this week’s Trade Tatler, and it is our great pleasure to present...

Tough targets for new Woolies CEO | The Loyalty Games

Another week, another Trade Tatler, where this time we bring you news of potentially significant acquisitions by two of our...

Major acquisitions on the cards at Shoprite and Woolies

Welcome to this week’s Trade Tatler, one that is chock-a-block full of retailer news, with some stories arriving on our...

Shoprite assists with vaccine delivery… and not on a motorbike

Welcome, dear readers, to the Trade Tatler, which this week brings you results and more results. But before we get...

Half-year results from Shoprite & Woolies | Clothing now available asap!

Welcome to your weekly date with the Trade Tatler. In this issue, we kick off with a surprising announcement from...

SPAR CEO hands over the reins | Dis-Chem Better Rewards bring Better Revenue

Welcome to this week’s Trade Tatler. Very occasionally, we come across slowish news weeks in FMCG, which give us some...

Woolworths installs first self-checkout | 44,000 more jobs created last quarter

Hello, dear readers, and welcome to the Trade Tatler. This week, we bring you trading updates from Pick n Pay...

Trading updates from Pick n Pay and Boxer | Checkers creates a buzz

Another week, another Trade Tatler, where we bring you our usual weekly snapshot of what’s what in the world of...

Shoprite trading update | 100 days of Dis-Chem’s Better Rewards

Welcome to another edition of the Trade Tatler, where we’ve scoured all available news sources for the biggest FMCG stories...

Clicks and WW trading updates | Does your school have a Woolies tuckshop?

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Trade Tatler, full to the brim of fresh news – both...

Dis-Chem faces naming conundrum | 100 solar systems at Shoprite

Hello, and a very warm welcome to our first Trade Tatler of 2026. We kick off the year with a...

Welcome to 2026

Hello and welcome to our final Tatler of the year. 2025 was a year of recalibration for South African FMCG...

Trade Tatler – Thank you 2025, and here’s to 2026!

Welcome to another edition of the Trade Tatler, where we bring you SPAR’s results, some interesting findings on this year’s...

SPAR results | Who were the winners this Black Friday?

Hello and welcome to this week’s Trade Tatler, where you can look forward to our views on Walmart’s first store,...

SPAR’s new Gourmet format | Clicks opens 1,000th store

Hello and welcome to this week’s Trade Tatler, where you can look forward to our views on Walmart’s first store,...

Trading update from SPAR, results from Oceana and a new Tiger Brands logo

This week’s Trade Tatler is so stuffed to the gills, bursting at the seams and filled to the brim with...

Black Friday, share sales, and the big W opens in SA

Results and trading updates abound in this week’s Trade Tatler, with Shoprite voluntarily letting us know that they’re still going...

Trading updates from Shoprite and Woolies | Tiger Brands grooms its stripes

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Trade Tatler, which, coming to you in the first week of November,...

Dis-Chem half-year results | Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

My, oh my… we have a new-look Tatler! The excitement has been real at Trade Intelligence as we’ve launched our...

Welcome to our new Trade Tatler

Welcome one and all to this week’s Trade Tatler, where we introduce you to a little place that the people...

New value-added services at PnP and Boxer | Premier Group to buy Rhodes

Welcome to our weekly Trade Tatler, where we pack some punches, bring you loads of discounts and wonder if we...

Boxer half-year results | Dis-Chem rewards get ‘better’

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Trade Tatler. We kick off our week’s FMCG news round-up with Dis-Chem,...

Dis-Chem leadership shuffles | SPAR to sponsor the big four

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