Jewel Kiriungi speaks to Pieter Engelbrecht, CEO of Shoprite, South Africa’s largest supermarket chain, who is trying to keep prices low despite economic challenges across the continent.

Pieter Engelbrecht It’s the first target and it’s not excluding any acquisitions. But the two major things where we will see is in terms of store events and the distributions is interesting there.

PIETER ENGELBRECHT: The simple reason for me not wanting to go with the 99c is that it is not sustainable. Even the R5 [loaf of bread] we’ve been doing since 2016 [at Shoprite stores] comes at a ...

PIETER ENGELBRECHT: I want to add to what you said. We’re also currently shielding 3 500 employees who basically lost their workplace because of the unrest we had; those stores are currently closed.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Shoprite Holdings will expand its on-demand grocery delivery service to its namesake discount stores, stepping up a turf war for South Africa's low-income shoppers, it said ...

Pieter Engelbrecht Yeah, as I said, we're slowly weaning off our dependency from third parties as we learn how to do that better ourselves, is why we are implementing with our IRI program.

Shoprite Holdings Ltd. won’t let the purchase of a 22.7 percent stake in the food retailer by Steinhoff International Holdings NV affect its independence and is on the hunt for acquisitions of ...

Basson, who turns 71 in January, will step down at the end of December and be succeeded by Pieter Engelbrecht, the company’s 47-year-old chief operations officer, Cape Town-based Shoprite said ...

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Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht, 52, earned a cool R29.9 million over the past year, an increase of almost 12% from the previous year, when he earned R26.8 million. As recently as 2019, he earned ...

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Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht, 52, earned a cool R29.9 million over the past year, an increase of almost 12% from the previous year, when he earned R26.8 million. As recently as 2019, he earned ...