H&M continues to change the landscape for local apparel retailers, along with foreign international operators such as Cotton On and Zara, as it opens its 13th store in South Africa at month-end. The Swedish group launched its first store in Cape Town in October 2015, and on September 28 will open a store spanning more than 2430m² in the Table Bay Mall. The mall itself will have more than 65,000m² of retail space, with the option of expanding to 90,000m², and will be the largest regional mall of the Big Bay, Bloubergstrand and West Beach areas. It will have more than 150 shops and restaurants. H&M has already opened stores in the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, and earlier this year in Polokwane and Mbombela. The expansion won't stop there. By the end of the year there will be four more openings - in Johannesburg, Durban and Richards Bay. Some analysts have been warning for some time of a structural shift in the retail apparel sector, caused largely by big, fast-fashion fore...
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