Retail industry offers huge potential, says DHL

DHL Express Tanzania Managing Director Ahmed Abdi. Retail expansion is key to DHL Express’ Africa business strategy. This is according to Sumesh Rahavendra, Head of Marketing for DHL Express, Sub Saharan Africa. The recently released A.T Kearney African Retail Development Index further validated the company’s plans as it ranked the top 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for retail expansion and highlighted Rwanda,...

Mr. Philippe Corsaletti (left) Managing Director of Puma Energy in Tanzania with Mr. Maurice Effombo (right) Country Manager DHL Express Tanzania during the signing of a retail partnership in a bid to provide customers with better access to global express services.

Mr. Philippe Corsaletti(left) Managing Director of Puma Energy in Tanzania with Mr. Maurice Effombo (right) Country Manager DHL Express Tanzania  addressing the media during the signing of a retail partnership in a bid to...

 DHL Commercial Manager, Mr. Ashish Nagewadia and his colleague joined by a retailer at the launch.

 

Charles Brewer, Managing Director for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa.

*Ashish Thakkar, Founder and CEO of Mara Group, gave conference delegates interesting and thought-provoking insights

 DHL (http://www.dpdhl.com), the world’s leading logistics service provider, held its 5th annual Global Technology conference in Dubai last month, featuring a number of key sessions on doing business in Africa.

Under the theme of “Connecting Markets, Trends & People”, the conference hosted some 300...

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Times pass but the current state of the industry cannot be compared to what it was 10 years ago since there is bigger gap between developed and developing countries.

The hospitality industry is one of the core sectors which has a major impact on the GDP growth of a country, it always produces positive trading activities and growth of the other sectors. In 2014, the tourism sector worldwide generated more than USD 7.6 trillion which is more than 10% of the total GDP, it also contributed more...

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Tanzania has overtaken Rwanda as a more attractive economy for formal retail market development in East Africa, a study shows.