Clicks
Clicks to shut down Musica stores
Nineteen Musica stores have been shut since the start of the group's current financial year and the remaining 59 will close as their leases come to end in the...
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Advertising board: Consumers must force firms to take transformation seriously
Speaking at a government webinar on the state of the industry, the Advertising Regulatory Board’s Didi Bojosi explained that there was a disjuncture between creativity and knowledge in the sector.
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‘Clicks ad affected me badly,’ Gobodo on why she resigned as non-exec director
Gobodo stepped down from the board on Monday over the ad that labelled black hair dry, frizzy and damaged.
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Nonkululeko Gobodo: I was not pushed from Clicks board
Clicks Group non-executive director Nonkululeko Gobodo resigned from the board on Monday, saying that she was leaving Clicks because she wanted to be free to pursue her initiatives.
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Clicks non-exec director Nonkululeko Gobodo resigns, cites personal reasons
Clicks has been marred in controversy after it published a racist ad on its website, labelling black hair as dry, frizzy and damaged.
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Natural hair campaigners see opportunity for local brands in TRESemmé fallout
Unilever has removed all TRESemmé hair products from all stores for 10 days after widespread outrage over the product's advert on the Clicks website.
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Unilever to ensure future ad campaigns reflect SA values after Clicks ad failure
As part of its measures, Unilever said that it would set up an advisory board and a diversity committee after apologising for the TRESemmé advert, which it admitted was racist.
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Will S. Africans continue to boycott Clicks? It's a mixed bag of views
Amanda Cooke is a natural hair blogger, and one of the women behind the Cape Town Naturally Support group and Facebook page. She said the ad on the Clicks website referring to afro hair as dry and not normal was disheartening.
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Clicks to award scholarships to black female students in wake of racist ad
It is part of an agreement struck between company and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) following a meeting on Thursday.
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Ntshavheni: Unilever’s response to Clicks' racist advert not good enough
The company and retailer Clicks came under fire over the offensive advert on its website, which called black women’s hair 'dry, damaged, and frizzy' compared to a white woman’s hair which was labelled 'normal'.
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SA has mixed reaction to EFF deal with Clicks, Unilever over racist ad
The party has reached an agreement with the company on the way forward after the online advert, which denigrated black women's hair.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: The reckless experiment of #ClicksMustFall and EFF protests
Haji Mohamed Dawjee believes the EFF’s way of responding to the important issue of a racist advert points out a glaring counterproductivity
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Unilever to withdraw all TRESemmé products from retail stores for 10 days
The decision was taken following a meeting with Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, Unilever, and Clicks folowing nationwide outrage of a racist ad for the product on the Clicks website.
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At least 15 people arrested during protests at Clicks stores - Cele
The minister on Wednesday said while the right to protest was protected in South Africa, police could not allow damage to property.
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Adam Habib: EFF policies, behaviour is racism and no different from AWB
Wits Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib on Thursday said those who could have acted to stop the EFF attacks on Clicks stores, chose not to.
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EFF, Clicks management to meet in wake of protests over racist ad
Clicks has come under fire for a hair product ad, which labelled black hair as 'dry, frizzy and damaged', and drew widespread outrage from South Africans.
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Woolworths, PnP latest retailers to pull TRESemme products from shelves
The announcements come after public outrage over a racist ad for the product which referred to black women's hair as "dry, damaged and frizzy" while labelling white hair as "normal".
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Clicks crisis didn't come out of the blue, says non-executive director Gobodo
The health and beauty outlet closed all its outlets on Wednesday morning to offer counselling and support to staff in the wake of the public outrage over a racist ad on its website.
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Gauteng police on alert for protests outside Clicks stores
This comes after the High Court in Johannesburg granted Clicks an interim interdict to stop the EFF from intimidating customers or staff, as well as inciting violence.
