TRADE INTELLIGENCE
Trade in Durban

Trade Intelligence provides insight, commentary and profiles on the South African Fast Moving Consumer Goods Environment and the major retail and wholesale players. We promote effective and profitable trading relationships and inspire interest in the industry. Taking you on a journey down the shopping aisles of South Africa's major retailers, showcasing their most prominent private brands. After several years of humming and hawing in its inimitable Gallic way, Carrefour appears ready to enter the turbid waters of retailing in sub-Saharan Africa. Real Cities: No automatic washing machines for the lower end consumer, who makes use of a bucket and rain water to wash clothes. Real Fashion: Students participating in a cultural event at the Durban University of Technology, showing the many colours and styles of African fashion. Washing is hanging from a small toilet shack, which is shared by up to 30 people living in the adjacent homes. Real Living: A young mother, selling maize for a living is contrasted by this Zimbabwean tertiary student who is trying to create a golden future for herself at the Durban University of Technology. Rural dwellers moving to the city use this township as their first port of call because it is affordable. Real Cities: A long and lonely walk to pension day for this elderly man in Mayville, Durban.