2020 wasnât great â but these South African businesses made the most of it Jan 01, 2021, 10:05 AM
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2020 was a tough year for businesses around the world - and South Africa s hard lockdown sped up the demise of many.
But a few businesses were fortuitously poised to take advantage of the circumstances.
And other businesses were able to rapidly realign their offerings and services to cater for clients in a way they might never have imagined.
These are some of the businesses in SA that grew in 2020.
2020 was an objectively terrible, terrible year for the majority of South African businesses. Covid-19 and its associated lockdowns ended, or sped up the demise, of several established household names, while small and large businesses grappled with unpredictable closures, confusing legislation, new sanitisation requirements, and shifting consumer habits.
Just up your street, new Starbucks has landed Citizen reporter Coffee break while shopping for groceries in the all-new Starbucks in Checkers FreshX, Rosebank Mall.
The created leisure and accessibility of coffee on the go but settling at the coffee shop is still a mainstay culture of work and lifestyle. American coffee company Starbucks is still cementing itself in SA, despite having a tough time adapting to the market after landing in Rosebank to much fanfare in 2016.
With predictions that the big brand wouldn’t survive in SA, Starbucks regrouped and changed its strategy to embrace the growing trend of artisanal local coffee stores and brands. The strategy included open-ing up shop inside a grocery retail store for the first time – in Rosebank, Checkers FreshX.