Zimbabwean consumers are facing increasing difficulties in accessing loans from traditional banking institutions due to low wages and the escalating cost of living, according to the IH Zimbabwe Consum...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2025
An uplift in volumes has been projected for Zimbabwean consumer companies despite rising cost structures, a volatile policy and monetary environment as well as higher taxation, say analysts at IH Secu...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2025
The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has urged the government to strengthen enforcement of the Consignment-Based Conformity Assessment (CBCA) programme to shield consumers from substandard, counterf...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2025
WHEN Varun Beverages Zimbabwe began commercial production in January 2018, it had a single production line.Today, the company boasts four backward-integrated lines manufacturing bottle closures and pr...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2025
The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe has raised concerns over incessant basic commodity price hikes which have seen the low income monthly food basket, for a family of six shoot to over $1 500 from $971 b...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 October 2019
CONSUMERS have called on the business community to reduce prices in line with the decline in exchange rates and implored Government to create a framework that guides pricing based on productive fundam...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 September 2019
POSTAL and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete has said telecoms operators should take consumers' grievances seriously so that they improve on...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 June 2019
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has appealed for urgent Government intervention in protecting consumers against the tide of foreign currency pricing of goods and services at a time when a major...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 January 2019
Government has gazetted the Consumer Protection Bill which seeks to protect consumers of goods and services against unnecessary price increases by businesses.The Bill, now cited as the Zimbabwe Consum...
By Staff reporter | Published: 02 January 2019
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe has increased visibility in most rural areas, after canvassing the country's 10 provinces, teaching mobile network providers' consume...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 September 2018
POSTAL and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director general, Dr Gift Machengete, has called for increased collaboration between policy makers and operators towards further...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 July 2018
Zimbabwe's consumer goods imports declined 34 percent during the period January to July 6 this year, as domestic consumption of locally produced goods surged, according to the latest statistics from t...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2018
Zimbabwe consumer spending keeps growing, as demand for basic and fast-moving consumer to firm due to excessive monetary build up in the economy that is driving stronger demand for products, economic ...
By Business Weekly | Published: 13 July 2018
THE Coca-Cola Company and Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited have bowed to consumer pressure announcing on Wednesday that they will soon "return" the original Mazoe recipes for all flavours."We have listened ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 June 2018
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe Limited and Coca-Cola Zimbabwe have allayed fears the ingredients they use to produce beverages are a health hazard.Schweppes Zimbabwe has recently faced consumer backlash following...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018
THE sprawling suburb of Sakubva in Mutare and Nyanga township will be a hive of activity today and tomorrow when the Postal and Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) host a ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 June 2018
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has launched a retail price index to assist consumers to shop wisely. In a statement yesterday, CZR said the facility would be available on the organisati...
By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018
RETAILERS, who are currently under fire for exploiting consumers through extortionate pricing, are now battling to fire-sell their products by offering promotions. Consumers have largely boycotted maj...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018
Zimbabwe consumer prices are surging as basics mark their fastest rise this year, with experts blaming the rise on profiteering by retailers.The price of beef soared month-on-month to $7,50 per kg thi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2017
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) yesterday slammed retailers for increasing prices of some basic commodities without justification.In an interview with The Herald, CCZ executive director Ms Rose...
By Staff reporter | Published: 27 September 2017
The consumer basket for a family of six has marginally decreased by 0.67 per cent to $588.07 in June from $592.97 due to a minimal decline of prices of goods in the basket in June.According to the Con...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 July 2014
Economy Faces Slumping Consumer Demand and DeflationBy Godfrey Marawanyika and Brian Latham April 06, 2014 Zimbabwe's economy is suffering from a slump in consumer spending a...
By Bloomberg News | Published: 08 April 2014
Zimbabwe is remodeling the consumer price index in line with regional practices in a bid to increase regional integration.The new consumer price index will have new weights and a new classification d...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 March 2014
National power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa) says it is owed $818 million by consumers - including government, domestic and commercial users.It said the unpaid bills were hampering its operations and v...
By Staff reporter | Published: 10 February 2014
The low disposable incomes that more than three quarters of the population in Zimbabwe receive has seen most consumers acquiring consumer credits from the retail sector but as a result of their depres...
By bh24 | Published: 05 December 2013
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