Arch Retail Solutions Co-Sponsors Cleaver Awards
Arch Retail Solutions Co-Sponsors Cleaver Awards. National Cleaver Awards is a prestigious recognition for product and service excellence in the South African butchery industry. The competition was launched in 2005 to meet the needs of the consumer by raising standards among butcheries and, since then, these awards have proven to do just that. Arch Retail Solutions is proud to announce its involvement with the 2024 event as co-sponsor.
For the 2024 competition, more than 1 000 butcheries entered. Voting commenced 1 February, where customers have been given the opportunity to vote for their favourite butcher. The top performing butcheries in each region and nationally will then anonymously be visited by SAMIC, the South African Meat Industry Company, tasked with ensuring the quality and safety of meat in South Africa.
Butcheries are competing in the following categories:
Butcheries with three or less till points
Butcheries with four or more till points
Food market/supermarket butcheries
Regional and national winners are announced from the above categories. The following Arch family members were winners in the 2023 competition: Uitkyk Meat & Supermarket (Pretoria), Impala Vleis (Brits), OK Foods Cambridge (East London) and Hartenbos Slaghuis (Hartenbos).
The Arch suite of products, developed in-house by Spinnaker Software, offers an integrated retail management solution for the Edge in retail. The Edge is offered to retailers by applying an understanding of challenges within retail and using new technologies and market knowledge to create business processes, mitigating such challenges.
The company’s client base includes independent stores and corporate groups such as OK Foods, Ultra Liquors, Sefalana Group, Food Lovers Market and President Hyper, to name a few. Its 1700+ stores, representing 18000+ points, are supported from its branches throughout South Africa (Cape Town, Port Elizabeth/Gqeberha, Durban, Bloemfontein, Midrand and Windhoek). In addition, the company has service centres servicing clients in Zimbabwe, Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi & DRC.
