At the regional Annual General meeting of 2020, SPAR Western Cape, South Africa, announced the winners of its Store of the Year competition. The winning stores were evaluated using an extensive assessment process throughout the year. SPAR Supermarket in Sea Point SPAR Sea Point is the 2020 Store of the Year in the SPAR Western

Playground to holidaymakers, jetsetters and sunseekers, Camps Bay is renowned for its magnificent location at the foot of the Twelve Apostles mountain range – and now also for having a Starbucks with a one-of-a-kind view. Starbucks Camps Bay offers visitors and locals alike a delicious and wide-ranging ‘something for everyone’ menu, world-class service from the

Starbucks has a brand new café in Stellenbosch, located in the upmarket Checkers FreshX store overlooking Die Braak, the picturesque town square that is flanked by a beautiful Cape Dutch style church and other historical buildings. Starbucks in Stellenbosch is the second store in a Checkers FreshX supermarket, the first having opened in Rosebank Mall

Checkers today revealed its new state-of-the-art supermarket at the Rosebank Mall as it continues to introduce more and more customers to a truly world-class shopping experience. The upmarket store offers a number of unique speciality services including: A honey bar offering three unique, local varieties of honey-on-tap, namely Buchu, Lucerne and Spring Hand-stretched, stone baked

SDM Eyewear will continue to distribute top international eyewear brands under the newly named holding company: FrontierCo. This is after SDM’s previous holding company, Busby, went into Voluntary Business Rescue in July this year. SDM has been part of the Busby stable since 1998. Along with the other brands in the group, SDM underwent a

Lewis Group overcame severe trading restrictions in the first two months of the national COVID-19 lockdown to recover strongly and increase operating profit by 13.6% for the six months to September 2020. Headline earnings per share increased by 9.9% to 236 cents and the board declared an interim dividend of 133 cents per share, 10.8%

A brand new Builders store is opening its doors at Cresta Shopping Centre on November 26, 2020.  The first branch to open within a super-regional mall, Builders Cresta will offer the full Builders Express range of products and services the brand is trusted for including a garden centre and a paint tinting and mixing counter.

PAXI, the affordable counter-to-counter parcel service which allows its customers to send, collect, and return parcels in a safe, convenient and affordable way, has experienced exceptional growth since its launch in 2018 by leveraging the extensive Pepkor store footprint. PAXI now has over 2 100 parcel service points countrywide through the Pep store network and

South Africa’s SPAR Group has reported a turnover increase of 13.5% to R124.3 billion (€6.79 billion) for the year ended 30 September 2020. The group’s extraordinary performance comes as consumers supported SPAR’s local and trusted retailers during this time of crisis. The group represents SPAR business in Southern Africa, Ireland, Switzerland, and Poland. The group

Standard Bank Instant Money has partnered with some of South Africa’s major retailers and selected spaza shops; growing its footprint to over 15 000 cash out points nationwide. “Innovation and access to financial services is crucial for Standard Bank and that is why we have expanded our retailer footprint to offer our customers more options for

Checkers Sixty60 picked up a gold award in the Service Design category at the 2020 Loerie Awards. Sixty60, the first one hour grocery delivery service from a South African supermarket chain, also recently won at the 2020 MTN Business App of the Year Awards and the 2020 BCX Digital Innovation Awards. “We are thrilled to have won a gold Loerie

The New House of Busby received approval from 91% of its creditors in support of its business rescue plan scripted and executed by Hans Klopper and Dawie van der Merwe of BDO Business Restructuring. The company will now be rebranded to FrontierCo and its Head Office has relocated from Germiston to George in the Southern

The Shoprite Group’s Portfolio Management Office (PMO) has gained international recognition for its world-class project management skills as one of the top four finalists in the 2020 PMO Global Awards. The Shoprite PMO was a finalist in the coveted World PMO of the Year Award, competing with companies from Honduras (Americas), Ukraine (Europe) and the United

The Checkers Sixty60 app is the winner of the People’s Choice Award and the Best Enterprise Solution at the 2020 MTN Business App of the Year Awards. South Africa’s first 60-minute grocery delivery service from a supermarket chain launched in November 2019 and in less than 12 months Sixty60 has become a household name thanks to its unrivaled convenience and

Clicks Group delivered a strong and resilient performance in the COVID-19 environment, increasing diluted headline earnings per share by 13.7% to 754 cents for the year to August 2020. Earnings growth was driven mainly by tight cost management, solid retail health and beauty sales and the strong performance of UPD, the group’s pharmaceutical wholesaler. Shareholders

Pick n Pay published its interim results for the six months ended 30 August 2020. The result was delivered almost entirely in the unprecedented conditions of COVID-19. The Group successfully pursued two primary goals over the period: feeding the nation in a safe and reliable way as an essential provider of food and groceries, and

The Tribunal has confirmed, as an order, a consent agreement between the Competition Commission (the Commission) and Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd (Shoprite) whereby the retailer agrees to immediately stop enforcing exclusivity provisions in its long-term exclusive lease agreements with its landlords against small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and speciality and limited line stores such

SPAR South Africa has recently not only been awarded the Rural and Township Development Award at the 2020 ABSA Business Day Supplier Development Awards in South Africa, but also claimed the prize of Overall Winner for its SPAR Rural Hub Programme. The SPAR Rural Hub Programme is a collaboration between small-scale farmers, communities and  retailers

COVID-19 continues to leave behind a trail of disruption as industry after industry has been forced to adapt to a new way of working in the face of the national lockdown. It’s no secret that the restaurant industry has faced dire challenges in order to keep food on the table. While some have had to

Long-serving director of Spur Corporation, Dineo Molefe, has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of MTN South Africa, effective 1 December 2020. This means she will step down as a non-executive director of the group and as chair of the audit committee with effect from 3 September 2020. “On behalf of the board, I thank

SPAR South Africa has announced the appointment of Brett Botten as its new CEO and Graham O’Connor as non-executive Chairman – both changes to be implemented following the retirement of chairperson Mike Hankinson on 1 March 2021. Brett Botten first joined SPAR South Africa in 1994 and has great experience in the retail sector, having

Key information Sale of merchandise increased by 6.4% to R156.9 billion Excluding the impact of hyperinflation trading profit increased by 10.4% to R8.3 billion Diluted headline earnings per share (DHEPS) increased by 2.5% to 765.8 cents (2019: 746.9 cents) Adjusted DHEPS* increased by 16.6% to 717.5 cents (2019: 615.2 cents) Full year dividend, in line

The need to end gender-based violence (GBV) was at the forefront of conversation during South Africa’s Women’s Month (August) following a surge in cases of domestic violence during the COVID-19 lockdown. SPAR South Africa has pledged to use its vast media reach and has launched a campaign aimed at helping end GBV. As part of

Lewis Group delivered a solid trading and operational performance for the year to March 2020 before being impacted by COVID-19 and the national lockdown which contributed to headline earnings per share declining by 30.8% to 260 cents. COVID-19 adjustments reduced profit before taxation by R339 million and headline earnings by R224 million. This includes an