Africa – The Supply Chain Lab

JEMLA: Digitising Ethiopia’s Informal Retail Sector with Tech-Enabled Platform

Ethiopia’s bustling informal retail sector has found a partner in JEMLA, a promising B2B ecommerce platform that caters to the

Moroccan start-up Chari has launched a new chain of B2B stores to cater to local grocery stores seeking to digitise

The humble mom-and-pop shop or traditional retailer has been getting a lot of attention of late. It seems like not

A report published by Clean Up Kenya and Wildlight for the Changing Markets Foundation (CMF) has found that as much

The African continent is being viewed as a potential goldmine for retailers, with a population of 1.4 billion, including over

In emerging markets, modern trade is still in the early stages of development, especially in some less developed economies in

Size of the cash economy: According to FirstRand, the scale of the cash economy in the South African townships is

Last-mile: Women in rural Rajasthan in Dina, where ecommerce marketplaces like Amazon and Flipkart do not deliver, are becoming the last-mile link

Copia Global is a B2C ecommerce startup — enabling people in rural and peri-urban areas to purchase products online, without