South Africa’s Shoprite replaces Nakumatt at Ugandan mall

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South Africa’s Shoprite replaces Nakumatt at Ugandan mall
Tuesday August 1 2017
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A shopper outside Nakumatt’s Oasis in Kampala. PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI | NMG

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South African retail chain Shoprite will now be the anchor tenant at Kampala's prime shopping mall Acacia, where cash-strapped Nakumatt occupied.

This comes two months after the Kenyan retailer announced closure of its major outlets at Acacia Mall-Kololo, Village Mall-Bugolobi and Victoria Mall-Entebbe.

According to a statement issued Thursday by Knight Frank Uganda, the property manager, Shoprite Group is set to open its third store in the country at Acacia Mall.

READ: Uganda shuts Nakumatt’s three stores over taxes

The move is part of the South African giant retailer's effort to grow its footprint across Africa.

Shoprite operates 2,689 outlets in 15 countries across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands which consist of 613 Shoprite supermarkets, 246 Checkers and Checkers Hyper supermarkets, 367 Usave stores among other brands dealing in furniture, fast food, pharmaceuticals and household items.

“We have now achieved 64 consecutive quarters of like-for-like sales growth. Our latest results are proof that the Group is healthy and able to thrive across multiple brands and countries, notwithstanding the headwinds” according to Mr Pieter Engelbrecht, the chief executive officer.

The Shoprite Group serves more than 35 million customers in Africa.

South Africa’s Shoprite replaces Nakumatt at Ugandan mall
 
show me just one mall in ur backward country that has expanded to UG..lol! ama kwli nyani haoni kundule...btw, SA and Kenya are the two largest investors of Africa....nakumatt is in ug, tz, rwanda and kenya...KCB bank the same...SA Kenya are the kings of this continent...i wonder why Nigeria is the top economy though...Kenya is way ahead of Nigeria..Nigeria is very underdeveloped....oil is a curse..Kenya and SA lead Sub-Saharan africa in almost everything..even with lower GDP figures, Kenya is among top 3 countries in Africa...

Kenya overtakes SA as biggest investor in African countries
 
Kenya SA Nigeria lead in cloud computing
Research study across organisations in three major African countries namely: South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya has revealed that Nigeria will overtake South Africa in Cloud uptake by 2014, with considerable investments about to be made in the sector.

This was the key finding of the Cloud in Africa: Reality Check 2013 research study1, released by World Wide Worx and Cisco.

The report said this will be possible following an explosion of Cloud computing uptake expected to take place in Africa’s major economies, as businesses gain confidence in both the security and reliability of the Cloud in these countries.

South Africa currently leads the continent in Cloud Computing including Nigeria and Kenya, which trail behind with wide percentage margin.

The study was conducted among a small but representative sample of senior information technology decision-makers in medium-sized and large companies in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.

Survey Key Findings

The most significant finding from the study was that, while South Africa currently leads the continent in Cloud uptake, it is about to be overtaken by Nigeria with a wide margin.

In 2013, 50 per cent South African medium and large businesses were using Cloud services; while a slightly lower proportion of 48 percent are using the Cloud in Kenya.

Nigeria lags substantially behind the two countries with only 36 per cent of businesses currently using the Cloud. A significant 44 per cent of Nigerian businesses during the study said they will embrace the Cloud in the coming year, bringing the total in the country to 80 per cent by the end of 2014.

This compares to 24 percent of organisations in Kenya and only 16 per cent in South Africa, saying they will be taking up Cloud in 2014.

According to the study, the key to the rapid adoption of Cloud computing in Nigeria and Kenya was found in the growing confidence that IT decision-makers have in the environment. “Even where confidence is not high, distrust in Cloud has almost entirely disappeared,” revealed the report.

The survey showed that 57 per cent of decision-makers across the three countries had high confidence in the security of the Cloud, while a further 34 per cent were neutral, meaning they would wait and see, but were not negatively disposed towards it. Only one in 10 respondents said they did not trust security in the Cloud.

An even higher level of confidence was expressed in the reliability of the Cloud: 73 percent of respondents across the three countries expressed high confidence, while most of the rest, 25 per cent were neutral on reliability.

Private Cloud is the most popular in 2013 with 25 percent or organisations surveyed currently deploying this compared to 13 per cent opting for Hybrid Cloud and only, with about seven per cent of companies opting for the Public Cloud.

In 2014, this trend is expected to continue with 32 per cent of companies opting for the Private Cloud compared to 18 per cent for Hybrid Cloud and 16 per cent for Public Cloud.

The most popular category for cloud use today according the report is storage, with 28 per cent of companies followed by 10 per cent of companies surveyed.

Cisco’s Vice President for Africa, David Meads, said “Cloud computing is the next big step in the evolution of computing and the Internet. The broadband revolution sweeping Africa and the continent’s reputation for innovation add up to tremendous appetite for services that will drive this evolution.

“Looking ahead, the Internet of “Everything represents the largest online trend today. As more people, things and devices connect to the Internet in Africa, more data from more places will be introduced across corporate and service provider networks, which will open up new opportunities and increased demand for the Cloud,”.
 
Dangote tu anahela kuliko kampuni zote za kenya endelea kuota

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Woolworth Plans Expansion Into Local Capital

By Ludovick Kazoka
RETAIL giant, Woolworth International is planning to open two more shops in Ugandan capital Kampala, its local partner said.

Speaking during the launch of a third shop in Dar es Salaam last weekend, Info Tech Investment Group Executive Chairman, Ali Mufuruki, whose company partners with the South African retailer, said the two shops in Kampala will bring the total number to three in Uganda.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201110030407.html

W-stores Ltd is a franchise of Woolworths in Tanzania and Kampala. The W stores were the first retail stores of their kind in the region and are still leaders in their markets with Six stores in Uganda and Tanzania. More stores are being rolled out..



W-Stores Ltd
PPF Tower
Shop 2-5, Ground floor, Garden Avenue,
P.O. Box 76686, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Contact Person:

Tel:
Fax:
e-mail: +255 22 2126909
+ 255 22 2126913
IIG - Infotech Investment Group: A leading Indigenous Tanzanian Group of companies
 
tuusan said:
Dangote tu anahela kuliko kampuni zote za kenya endelea kuota

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Dangote net worth ni 13 billion...hizo pesa ndogo my frend...he is richest but his country is so underdeveloped ata afadhali tz which is another backward country...hav u been to lagos? i hav been there for a school project and i can tell you there is nothing to show for yet it is the largest economy.... yaani tofauti ya Nigeria na nchi zingine za kiafrika hamna...afadhali SA, Egypt na Morocco kuna tofauti kubwa..
 
congrats but tz yaani kama mtoto anayenyonya ukilinganisha na EA's most advanced economy kwa biashara...Kenya's business and investments in this continent can only be matched by SA...do a littl research you will see
 
frankly, kenya is only inferior to SA in Sub Saharan africa...no other country...even angola, ethiopia, sudan with bigger GDP figures are behind Kenya mostly coz of oil exportation....sasa i cant blv when w will start our own oil exporting!!
 
tuusan said:
East is somehow promising...after implementation of industrial revolution then massive retail space is coming just chill

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true...east is developing quite at a fast pace but we have problems like terror and countries suffering from civil war...yaani if not for South Sudan & Somalia, East Africa would be the kings of Africa i tell you...we have ethiopia, kenya and tz and rwanda are doing very well...Uganda imelala...we have nice beaches, large ports, leading airlines and top safari destinations and oil has been discoverd...west only have oil...south have wealth but dont have numbers az in population..
 
Go east for economy west for democracy,Mark my word!!

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But largest market too! Hivi kwann Wakenya mnajiaminisha Dar ipo nyuma kwa Nairobi?

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