20/01/2021
Veganuary hitting record numbers this year
More than 525,000 people have signed up for Veganuary - a non-profit movement that encourages people across the globe to take the pledge to try vegan for January. This has broken sign-up records only just days into January, surpassing last year’s total sign-ups of 400 000.
17/12/2020
Waste picker’s success story receives national kudos
A Mpumalanga recycling project has received acclaim for improving the lives and livelihoods of Ermelo community members while making a positive difference to the environment.
30/11/2020
Clicks celebrates 750th store milestone
Pharmacy, health and beauty retailer Clicks has opened its 750th store at the Cape Quarter in Green Point, Cape Town.
30/11/2020
New Pretoria Starbucks opens at Castle Gate Lifestyle Centre
Starbucks has proudly taken up occupancy in Pretoria’s brand-new Castle Gate Lifestyle Centre, which opened on 26 November.
27/11/2020
Builders Cresta opens end-November
A brand new Builders store is opening its doors at Cresta Shopping Centre on November 26, 2020. The first branch to open within a super-regional mall, Builders Cresta will offer the full Builders Express range of products and services the brand is trusted for including a garden centre and a paint tinting and mixing counter.
10/11/2020
145 Woolworths stores are now plastic bag free
Woolworths has announced that an additional 120 stores are now single-use plastic shopping bag free, increasing their single use plastic shopping bag free stores to 145 nationally.
27/10/2020
Woolworths is scrapping plastic bags at these 121 stores from November
Retailer Woolworths has sent notice that 121 of its stores around South Africa will be going plastic-bag free from 9 November 2020.
20/10/2020
Pick n Pay buys online on-demand grocery disrupter bottles
Pick n Pay announced today (20/10/2020) that it had concluded an agreement to purchase on-demand, online grocery service Bottles. This will enable Pick n Pay to build on the success it has achieved in partnership with Bottles in recent months, and further strengthens what is already sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and most popular online grocery business.
14/10/2020
Major SA food brands join Pick n Pay in global commitment to huge reduction in food waste
Pick n Pay has recruited 20 of its largest food and manufacturer suppliers to join the 10x20x30 initiative to significantly combat in-store and supply chain food waste by 2030. Pick n Pay has set its own internal target to reduce food waste by 50% by 2025.
19/08/2020
25 Woolworths stores are now plastic bag free
Woolworths has announced that 25 stores including some of its largest full line stores and 3 food markets are now single-use plastic shopping bag free.
20/07/2020
Johnnie Walker is launching a new bottle that's made out of paper
Johnnie Walker is introducing a 100% plastic-free bottle made of paper starting next year.
16/07/2020
Woolworths celebrates #plasticfreejuly with new milestones
As part of its ZERO packaging waste to landfill commitment, Woolworths set ambitious targets of phasing out single-use plastic bags by the end of 2020 as well as for all its packaging to be reusable or recyclable by 2022.