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Takealot.com (stylised as takealot.com) [1] is a South African e-commerce company based in Cape Town, South Africa.It is regarded as South Africa's largest online retailer, [2] [3] takealot.com has helped grow online shopping in South Africa, [4] [5] [6] and was the first local retailer to take part in Black Friday.
By 1960 the company sold a number of partners: Israel Economic Corporation-PEC (group IDB), England-Israel Securities and a group of private investors. By 1962 the company sold most of Lflskon, the largest manufacturer of paint in South Africa. Tambor was a private company until 1993 then went public in on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. In 2001 ...
Massmart Holdings Limited is a South African firm that owns local brands such as Game, Makro, Builder's Warehouse and CBW. It is the second-largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa , the largest retailer of general merchandise, liquor and home improvement equipment and wholesaler of basic foods. [ 4 ]
A Dulux store in Richmond Hill, Ontario A Dulux store in Hong Kong. Dulux is an internationally-available brand of architectural paint that originated from the United Kingdom. The brand name Dulux has been used by both Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) and DuPont since 1931 and was one of the first alkyd-based paints.
The first Musica-branded store was opened in 1992 and later in the same year was bought by Clicks Group for R1.2 million in 1992. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2006, under pressure to change its business model due to the growth of online music purchases, the company expanded its range of products to film, video games, electronic accessories, branded clothing ...
The company was founded in 1956 by Renier van Rooyen. His first chain store opened in 1978, and was the start of PEP Reef. [6] [7] Formerly known as PEP stores the company changed its name to Pepkor Limited in 1982 and PEP stores became a subsidiary company. [1] In 1998, Pepkor acquired Australian retailer Best & Less. [8]
Bidorbuy.co.za became the largest online marketplace in South Africa and Africa. [2] In 2010, it invested into PayFast, [3] a local online payment company, and 2014 into the e-commerce company uAfrica.com. [4] It merged with UAfrica, in August 2022 to form Bob Group. [5] In March 2023, UAfrica was rebranded as Bob Go and Bidorbuy as Bob Shop. [6]
Diagram of a vacuum flask Gustav Robert Paalen, Double Walled Vessel. Patent 27 June 1908, published 13 July 1909. The vacuum flask was designed and invented by Scottish scientist James Dewar in 1892 as a result of his research in the field of cryogenics and is sometimes called a Dewar flask in his honour.