Shoprite Holdings Ltd

This article is about the South African retailer. For other uses, see ShopRite (disambiguation).

Shoprite Holdings

Company type	Public
Traded as	JSE: SHP
Industry	Retail
Founded	1979 (1979)
Headquarters	Brackenfell, Western Cape, South Africa
Number of locations	2,989 stores (Distribution of total operations as on 3 July 2022)
Key people	P.C. Engelbrecht, CEO Wendy Lucas-Bull, Chairman
Revenue	R187.7 billion (FY 2022)
Net income	R5.7 billion (FY 2022)
Number of employees	over 145,000 (As end July 2022)
Subsidiaries	Checkers
Website	https://www.shopriteholdings.co.za/

Shoprite Holdings Ltd (JSE: SHP), is Africa’s largest supermarket retailer, operating more than 2,989 stores across Africa. The company's headquarters are in Brackenfell in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Shoprite Holdings Limited is a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with secondary listings on both the Namibian and Zambian Stock Exchanges. The Shoprite Group employs more than 145,000 people and is the biggest private sector employer in South Africa.

A Shoprite store in Zeerust.

History

International presence of Shoprite supermarkets

The Shoprite Group of companies was established when PEP Stores purchased a small grocery company with eight stores from the Rogut family in 1979. In 1990 Shoprite opened in Namibia. In 1991, it acquired the national Checkers chain. In 1995 the first store in Lusaka, Zambia, was opened. That same year they acquired a centralised distribution company Sentra, which had been acting as a central buyer for 550 owner-managed supermarkets, thereby allowing Shoprite to expand into franchising.

In 1997 struggling "OK Bazaars" was acquired by the company from South African Breweries for one rand, adding 139 OK Bazaars stores and 18 Hyperamas to the company. In 2000 the group opened its first supermarkets in Zimbabwe and Uganda. Two years later the company acquired the Madagascar stores of French chain Champion. The same year the company bought three Tanzanian supermarkets from Score Supermarket and opened it first Hypermarket outside of South Africa in Mauritius. In 2005 the Group acquired Foodworld as well as South African ticket seller Computicket, and opened the first Shoprite LiquorShop. The company also opened its first Nigerian store in the Victoria Island area of Lagos in December 2005.

In 2008 the Shoprite Group was added to the JSE Top-40 Index of blue-chips. In 2019 Shoprite won the Proudly South African Brand Award and was voted the best in the Grocery Store category as part of the Tiso-Blackstar/Sunday Times Top Brand Survey. Deloitte's Global Powers of Retailing 2019 (covering the 2017 financial year) ranked The Shoprite Group as the 86th largest retailer in the world.

In 2011 it was announced that the Shoprite Group entered into an agreement with Metcash Trading Africa (Pty) Limited. Under the terms of that agreement, the franchise division of Metcash was to be sold to Shoprite Checkers, including franchise arrangements with franchisees operating retail stores under registered trademark names such as Friendly and Seven Eleven.

On 19 April 2012, Shoprite became the first South African retailer to enter the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as it opened the doors of a new supermarket in Gombe, Kinshasa.

Shoprite Holdings announced at the company's Annual General Meeting held on 31 October 2016 that the company's Chief Executive Officer, Whitey Basson, decided to retire at the end of December 2016. The board appointed Pieter Engelbrecht (born c. 1970), the former Chief Operating Officer, as the incoming CEO as of 1 January 2017. He had been with the company for over 20 years and played a leading role in the company's growth under Basson's leadership.

Brands

Shoprite Holdings Limited comprises the following entities:

Name	Description
Shoprite	The Group’s original and flagship brand and the biggest food retailer in Africa.
Usave	Usave offers basic goods at stripped-to-the-bone prices, focusing on lower-income markets.
Checkers and Checkers Hyper	The Checkers brand is defined by convenience, quality and freshness, and markets to affluent consumers.
Checkers Foods	Checkers Foods, a smaller format focuses on convenience.
Shoprite LiquorShop and Checkers LiquorShop	Shoprite and Checkers LiquorShop stores provide alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Petshop Science	A specialist petshop.
Little Me	A standalone store for parent-customers.
House & Home	House & Home caters to consumers in need of homeware, furniture, electrical appliances and more.
OK Furniture and Power Express	The OK Furniture and OK Power Express brands offer quality furniture, electrical appliances and more to middle-income communities.
Checkers Sixty 60	Checkers Sixty60  is an on-demand service that delivers alcohol and groceries within an hour, and at the same low prices as in-store.
K’nect	K’nect aims to get customers K’nected with affordable cellular products and related services. In 2021, the Group launched its own mobile network, K’nect mobile, under this brand.
Medirite	Medirite provides healthcare products.
TransPharm	Transpharm Pharmaceutical Wholesalers distributes pharmaceuticals and surgical equipment across South Africa via Shoprite Holdings’ distribution centres.
OK Franchise division	The OK Franchise division franchises different retail formats (OK Foods, OK MiniMark, OK Express and Sentra), a liquor outlet, OK Liquor, and a wholesale outlet, Megasave.
Checkers Food Services	Checkers Food Services delivers products to the catering and hospitality industries.
Computicket and Computicket Travel	Computicket and Computicket Travel is the largest ticketing service provider in South Africa, specialising in tickets for business, entertainment and travel.
Freshmark	Freshmark is responsible for the Group’s fruit and vegetable procurement and supplying fresh fruit and vegetables to its stores across South Africa and other parts of Africa.

References

• SHP - Shoprite Holdings - Reviewed results for the 52 weeks to 3 July 2022