The problem is retail development rankings are useless. Worse than useless, actually. We explain why we don’t trust AT Kearney’s Global Retail Development Index when it comes to Africa. A few years ago we wanted to build a retail market …

PepsiCo, the global beverages and snacks company that owns Frito-Lay, has acquired a majority stake in Ethiopian snacks company Senselet Food Processing. Senselet is the owner of local potato chips brand Sun Chips. Senselet was founded in 2015 by Netherlands-based Veris Investments, …

So here are our big themes in 2019 and a look ahead to 2020. It’s been another eventful year in African consumer and retail markets in 2019. Some big retail players coming unstuck In grocery retail, some big players have come …

The Ethiopian government has signed agreements with Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba to become its second Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) hub – a private sector initiative to facilitate cross border ecommerce. It sounds like a win-win. But is it? Electronic …

Peer to peer farmer network and marketplace WeFarm has raised $13m in Series A round of funding. The round was led by True Ventures, with AgFunder and June Fund also investing. It means WeFarm has raised a total of $20m to …

Zoscales Partners has invested in Ethiopian biscuit manufacturer Ahadukes Food Products, whose brands include Marie Gold, Ginger Crunch and Tiger Creams. The investment aims to help the business increase production capacity, add up to 150 new jobs and improve export performance. …

This week airport retail operator Dufry has unveiled its revamped duty free retail sites at Casablanca and Marrakesh airports. Competitor Lagardère has also revealed more about its plans to expand in Africa and has acquired a diplomatic duty free outlet in …

DHL has added a further 13 countries to its ecommerce shopping platform, Africa eShop to bring its total coverage to 34 countries. The service, which launched in April 2019 in 11 countries and increased coverage to 20 in May 2019, …