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Popping out the pillbox

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By Ray Mahlaka Verified
| BusinessLIVE Verified
The cold hard truth of South African retail is that if you aren’t gaining market share, you’re losing it. This is the arena where Clicks and Dis-Chem are now waging their fiercest battle in years. As Clicks CEO Bertina Engelbrecht recently put it during a results presentation: “The past six months have been tough. Trading conditions remain constrained, especially for middle-income households.
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Still mixed results for Operation Vulindlela

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By Ray Mahlaka Verified
| BusinessLIVE Verified
Operation Vulindlela, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s structural economic reform agenda — the great hope for South Africa to grow the economy, create jobs and boost private sector investment — has clocked up a few wins since its inception in October 2020. Still, bottlenecks remain. After 18 years of inaction, digital spectrum was auctioned.
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Perfect chemistry at Omnia

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By Ray Mahlaka Verified
| BusinessLIVE Verified
The JSE has few turnaround stories as spectacular as that of chemicals group Omnia, which straddles agriculture and mining with niches in fertilisers and explosives in Africa and beyond. When Seelan Gobalsamy took the helm at Omnia in August 2019, the company was on the brink of collapse. The share had tumbled from highs of R147 in January 2018 to about R27, with the 72-year-old company on a market capitalisation of just R2bn.
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