Sector: Consumer Services
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Clicks Group (JSE:CLS) is a retail-led healthcare group which is listed in the Food and Drug Retailers sector on the JSE.
Clicks was conceived as a drugstore in 1968 but legislation at the time prevented corporate ownership of pharmacies in South Africa. This meant that Clicks operated as a drugstore without drugs until legislation was changed in 2003 to allow corporate pharmacy ownership, and the first Clicks pharmacy opened in 2004. United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD) was acquired by the group in January 2003 to provide the distribution capability for the group’s healthcare strategy.
Group Brands
Clicks, Musica, The Body Shop, GNC and Claire’s are market-leading brands and have a combined footprint of over 880 stores, including 51 in the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho.
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Clicks has opened its first in-house e-commerce fulfilment facility as it presses the accelerator on its online shopping strategy.
2024-03-18 12:34 +02:00
Amazon’s launch into the South African market could have a seismic effect on the digital advertising landscape.
2024-01-23 15:19 +02:00
MTN South Africa is venturing ever further into territory traditionally occupied by the country’s banks.
2023-09-28 19:28 +02:00
Around a decade after Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes.
2023-07-17 12:40 +02:00
From WannaCry to Mydoom, TechCentral lists the top 10 most dangerous computer viruses ever created.
2023-05-09 14:05 +02:00
Promoted | Huawei’s AppGallery offers rewards programmes that allow users to earn points while enjoying your apps.
2023-05-08 13:35 +02:00
FNB has expanded its partnership to allow access to the US internet payments platform via more of the bank’s digital channels.
2023-04-13 11:37 +02:00
The ongoing saga over the property development has led some to wonder why Amazon chose the site in the first place.
2022-12-15 09:51 +02:00
RCS, the consumer finance arm of French banking group BNP Paribas, has acquired South African online credit provider Mobicred.
2022-04-04 13:45 +02:00
It is entirely possible – and quite simple – to earn back at least your monthly account fee in eBucks each month.
2022-01-07 09:42 +02:00
Over R30-billion is being left on the table because of consumer experience problems and other issues, which is coincidentally the current market value of e-commerce in South Africa.
2021-08-30 07:42 +02:00JSE:CLS JSE:AVI JSE:SPG JSE:MSM JSE:MPT JSE:EMN JSE:HUG JSE:EMH
South Africa’s newest bank, Bank Zero, is now accepting new customers following a closed roll-out phase. Applications will be “throttled” to ensure that the bank’s seamless onboarding experience is not overwhelmed.
2021-08-10 12:30 +02:00
It is not yet clear just how extensive the destruction of particularly retail and warehouse property and the looting of stock in the unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng was.
2021-07-19 06:08 +02:00JSE:SHP JSE:NED JSE:PPH JSE:CLS JSE:INP JSE:WHL JSE:MRP JSE:SPP JSE:INL JSE:TBS JSE:IPF JSE:MSM JSE:CSB JSE:FBR JSE:MPT JSE:LEW JSE:MST
Vodacom has taken the wraps off its much-anticipated VodaPay “super app” in South Africa, designed in collaboration with Alibaba Group-owned fintech services platform Alipay.
2021-06-29 15:18 +02:00
Turnover at the entertainment chain peaked in the year to 31 August 2010 at R952-million. It closed all remaining stores at the end last month, after announcing the decision in January.
2021-06-18 06:51 +02:00
Many consumers have taken to doing their shopping online and adopted new trading habits. This trend has seen a rise in the use of delivery pick-up points.
2021-02-22 06:47 +02:00
Musica will soon be no more. Clicks Group announced on Thursday that it will close the music retailer’s stores countrywide.
2021-01-28 16:00 +02:00
Bank Zero has announced its account pricing as it edges closer to launch. The digital-only bank says “basic banking should be free and extras should be paid for – not the other way round”.
2020-10-28 06:55 +02:00JSE:SBK JSE:ABG JSE:NED JSE:CLS JSE:OMU JSE:AVI JSE:ARH JSE:ISA
Uber Eats’ South African unit on Thursday expanded delivery offerings, launching an app-based over-the-counter medicines service as it seeks to gain market share in the fast-growing online shopping sector.
2020-10-15 08:14 +02:00
Facebook and Google have for years operated like shop windows for news stories, plying their billions of visitors with free snippets from articles across the Web. An antitrust tussle is set to change that.
2020-07-14 06:32 +02:00
Fuel retail giant Engen has launched a payment app for smartphones that does away with the need to use a point-of-sale terminal on its forecourts, thereby reducing the chances of contracting Covid-19.
2020-07-07 14:18 +02:00
MTN has rolled out a new feature of its Mobile Money service that will allow South African consumers to make purchases online using their MoMo wallets – no bank card required.
2020-06-29 14:09 +02:00
Perhaps unsurprisingly, South Africans – forced to stay at home during a 21-day national lockdown aimed at fighting the spread of Covid019 – are turning to video-on-demand services in droves.
2020-04-08 07:36 +02:00
In the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, supermarket giant Pick n Pay is upping the ante in South Africa’s online retail game by launching a same-day grocery delivery service in partnership with Bottles.
2020-04-08 06:18 +02:00
Apple is considering giving rival apps more prominence on iPhones and iPads and opening its HomePod speaker to third-party music services after criticism the company provides an unfair advantage to its in-house products.
2020-02-20 12:11 +02:00
Google will require rivals to bid in order to become listed as alternative search providers on Android smartphones, a move to try to keep additional antitrust scrutiny at bay.
2019-08-02 11:59 +02:00
Discovery Bank will start accepting new clients from Monday, three months later than it had anticipated when it unveiled its banking proposition in November.
2019-06-28 06:37 +02:00
Pioneering South African online kitchen and homeware retailer Yuppiechef is opening more physical stores in an omni-channel retail push.
2019-06-14 10:37 +02:00South Africa`s value fashion and homeware retailer Mr Price is testing standalone baby stores, in a push to gain a share of the growing and highly competitive baby care products market, starting with a store it launched on Wednesday, it said.
2022-08-25JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa deployed soldiers on Monday to quell violence that erupted following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma, after days of riots left at least six people dead.
2021-07-12
South Africa`s Vodacom Group said on Tuesday about 70 businesses had signed up or committed to the mobile operator`s new digital financial services "super app" that promises to be a one-stop shop for online transactions.
2021-06-29South Africa`s rand edged higher early on Monday in thin trade ahead of a national holiday, with traders unlikely to take many big bets ahead of some key data due later in the week.
2021-04-26
South Africa`s largest logistics company Imperial Logistics has been awarded the tender to import COVID-19 vaccines for the second and subsequent phases of the country`s vaccination programme, it told Reuters on Thursday.
2021-04-22South African pharmacy chain Clicks Group said on Thursday it expects its full-year earnings to be up 8% to 13% after reporting a 9.5% rise in half-year earnings, boosted by consumer demand for preventative medicine and new private hospital business.
2021-04-22South Africa`s Dis-Chem Pharmacies said on Wednesday group revenue rose 12.1% for a 22-week period to Feb. 2, boosted by consumer demand for preventative medicine.
2021-02-17South Africa`s health ministry will issue a tender to store and distribute COVID-19 vaccines on Feb. 5, it said on Thursday, in an effort to speed up a vaccine rollout that opposition leaders and scientists have said is too slow.
2021-01-28
South Africa`s Clicks Group said on Thursday it had decided to close its Musica entertainment business due to the shift to digital consumption of music, movies and games, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021-01-28South Africa has a three-month plan to import, store and distribute coronavirus vaccines for frontline healthcare workers through a contract with pharmaceutical company Biovac Institute, a letter from the National Treasury shows.
2021-01-21
* Imperial says will participate in govt tender (Adds Imperial statement, context)
2021-01-21South African pharmaceutical company Biovac Institute has been contracted by the government to import, store and distribute coronavirus vaccines for frontline healthcare workers, a letter from the National Treasury shows.
2021-01-21South African healthcare experts are urging the government to share a detailed plan for administering COVID-19 vaccines with private sector partners who are offering their help, warning infrastructure bottlenecks will otherwise delay the rollout.
2021-01-20South Africa`s two biggest pharmacy chains Clicks Group and Dis-Chem Pharmacies said they plan to offer COVID-19 shots at their stores and provide storage and distribution facilities in the vaccine rollout programme once the government provides more details.
2021-01-08
* To bring back TRESemmé products on new terms (Adds CEO comments)
2020-10-22Uber Eats` South African unit on Thursday expanded delivery offerings, launching an app-based over-the-counter medicines service as it seeks to claw market share in the fast-growing online shopping sector in Africa`s most industrialised economy.
2020-10-15The South African unit of Unilever will set up an advisory board and a diversity committee after apologising for a hair care advert which it admitted was "racist", the consumer group said on Friday.
2020-09-11
The South African unit of Unilever will set up an advisory board and a diversity committee after apologising for a hair care advert which it admitted was "racist", the consumer group said on Friday.
2020-09-11Unilever has agreed to pull all its TRESemmé haircare products from South African retail stores for 10 days as a show of remorse for a "racist" ad, the consumer group said in a joint statement with an opposition political party.
2020-09-10
South Africa`s Dis-Chem Pharmacies has joined a growing list of retailers removing TRESemmé products, a Unilever Plc brand, from their shelves after a hair advertisement was accused of being racist.
2020-09-10South Africa`s Clicks Group said on Tuesday it will remove TRESemmé products, a Unilever Plc brand, from its shelves after an advertisement posted on the drug retailer`s website was accused of being racist.
2020-09-09Demonstrators damaged seven of South African drug retailer Clicks Group`s shops on Monday and forced others to close during protests over what they said was a racist advertisement posted on its website.
2020-09-07
South African drugstore chain Clicks suspended its interim dividend and warned trading would be tough for the rest of its financial year due to the coronavirus crisis, despite a better-than-expected rise in first-half earnings.
2020-04-23
South African drugstore chain Clicks Group reported a 9.9% rise in 20-week sales on Thursday, driven by value promotions in the deteriorating consumer spending environment.
2020-01-23
South Africa`s rand weakened on Monday, pressed lower by weak Chinese export data that dented risk appetite and a fifth straight day of nationwide power cuts by utility Eskom as heavy rains and flooding caused failures at multiple power plants.
2019-12-09JSE:SBK JSE:DSY JSE:CLS JSE:INP JSE:WHL JSE:TFG JSE:INL JSE:ISA
South Africa`s rand was barely changed in late trade on Friday, with fresh optimism over Sino-U.S. trade talks helping the currency to weather stronger employment numbers from the United States.
2019-12-06
South African drugstore chain Dis-Chem Pharmacies Ltd reported a 39% drop in interim profit on Thursday, hurt by strike-related costs and lower demand from suppliers.
2019-11-07
South Africa`s Clicks Group reported a 16.8% rise in full-year earnings on Thursday, driven by strong growth in its retail and distribution businesses despite a weak economy.
2019-10-24
South African drugstore chain Dis-Chem Pharmacies Ltd said on Wednesday that its revenues rose 13.5% in the five months through July, thanks to an increase in medicine prices and a jump in wholesale revenues.
2019-08-28
South African drugstore chain Dis-Chem Pharmacies Ltd`s full-year earnings rose by less than expected, the company said on Thursday, as prolonged industrial action offset the impact of price cuts and aggressive promotions.
2019-05-16
South African pharmacy and healthcare retailer Clicks Group reported a 13.2 percent increase in half-year earnings on Wednesday, driven by strong sales of beauty and health products.
2019-04-17
South Africa`s rand weakened on Thursday against a broadly stronger dollar as investors prepared for President Cyril Ramaphosa`s state of the nation address (SONA) later in the day.
2019-02-07
South African pharmacy and beauty product retailer Clicks Group reported a 15.1 percent rise in full-year profit on Thursday, as sales promotions helped it withstand sluggish consumer spending in the country.
2018-10-25
