cote d’ivoire – Perspective

Carrefour in Cote D’Ivoire: Thinking global; acting local

By Niti Bhan | January 23, 2016

Unusually, for a global retail brand like the French Carrefour chain, their range of products in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire include numerous locally sourced products. News has it that they signed as many as 170 different supplier agreements in their bid to source indigenously. …local products like pineapple from Bonoua (south-east), yam from Bondoukou (east), rice… Read More »

African E-Commerce: Successfully Leapfrogging The Metrics of Fail

By Niti Bhan | April 5, 2015

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Postal networks are critical elements of the e-commerce chain, a UN report said, including home postal delivery as an indicator in a new global index to measure countries’ readiness to carry out business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce. ~ source By these metrics, countries on the African continent such as Nigeria rank 101st on the global index, far… Read More »