{"id":66762,"date":"2014-08-26T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=66762"},"modified":"2014-08-26T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:26:22","slug":"uk-retailer-next-comes-to-sa-through-spree-co-za","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/66762\/uk-retailer-next-comes-to-sa-through-spree-co-za\/","title":{"rendered":"UK retailer Next comes to SA through Spree.co.za"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spree.co.za, a\u00a0part of Naspers&#8217; e-commerce division, has announced an online partnership with one of the UK\u2019s largest clothing retailers, Next.<\/p>\n<p>The Next range of clothing and footwear will be available to South Africans online via Spree.co.za, from 3 September, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Next Retail comprises of a chain of more than 500 stores in the UK and Ireland, while Next International has almost 200 predominately franchised stores around the world.<\/p>\n<p>For South Africa, the UK retailer will use Spree.co.za as a third party partner for online\u00a0 sales.<\/p>\n<p>The local online retailer &#8220;will take care of international shipping\u00a0 costs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt allows us to complement our existing offering to customers, while also offering the benefits Spree\u2019s unmatched free delivery and 30-day free returns policies\u201d, said Spree.co.za GM, Louna Lohann.<\/p>\n<p>Next already has a country-specific website, enabling South Africans to purchase its goods, with free delivery on all orders over R250.<\/p>\n<p>Orders under R250 are charged a delivery fee at R40.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-commerce in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Media24 launches new SA e-commerce enabler\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/65698\/media24-launches-new-sa-e-commerce-enabler\/\"><strong>Media24 launches new SA e-commerce enabler<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"uAfrica.com teams up with Shopify\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/59129\/uafrica-com-teams-up-with-shopify\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>uAfrica.com teams up with Shopify<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Next range will be available to South Africans online via Spree.co.za, part of Naspers&#8217; e-commerce division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26,107,8678,8680],"class_list":["post-66762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-naspers","tag-next","tag-spree-co-za"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66776,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66762\/revisions\/66776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}