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South Africa Market Demographics

Population, community and consumer statistics by and about South Africa
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To browse all content including data, articles and book chapters, use the drop down menu to choose South Africa and search. For demographic statistics navigate to OECD stat.
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Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

Market Indicators and Forecasts includes demographic statistics.
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Consumer Culture

McKinsey recenty published The Rise of the African Consumer which includes some useful insights. The University of South Africa, Bureau of Market Research also offers some open source high quality reports on consumer behavior and attitudes.

Euromonitor (Passport)

Single most useful database for foreign marketing projects. Use the Countries and Consumers tab to navigate to the Country Pulse, a chronological report on trends and Country Lifestyle a report on a wide range of consumer habits.
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Search business articles (ABI Inform, Business Source Premier, ISI Emerging Markets and Lexis-Nexis) for observations and studies about buyer behavior. Search by keywords and leverage the power of subject terms to search throughly.

Product & Market Mix

Market research or industry reports are a good way to begin studies of product positioning and market mix.

Euromonitor (Passport)

This time use Euromonitor to get reports, news and statistics on the product category you've chosen. Use the Search tab and expand the category trees to check off the closes approximation of your product. Select the South Africa geography
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ReferenceUSA

This database has selected regional and foreign industry reports from MarketLine and Freedonia. From the landing page search OneSource by industry keyword.
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IBIS World

IBISWorld may have a relevant global (but not South Africa) industry report.
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Price Waterhouse Coopers publishes surveys and reports on industries in S.A. International trade associations are good sources for industry reports too. Give these a try:

Promotion

The following database can be used for information about advertising costs and media usage patterns in South Africa.

WARC

Case studies, news and data on global marketing and advertising.
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e-Marketer

e-Marketer is an international aggregator of data and reports on digital marketing from over 4000 sources. Access reports, data and news about media usage, social media, mobile, digital advertising, e-commerce, e-mail marketing, and search across a wide range of industries.
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