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| Industry | Clothing, Retail, Accessories |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1965[1] |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 5,830 stores (2022) |
Area served | Southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Eswatini, Nigeria, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, Brazil |
Key people | P J Erasmus (CEO) [2] |
| Revenue |  EUR 4.53 billion [3] |
Number of employees | 49,700 (2022) |
| Parent | Steinhoff International (43.8%)[4] |
| Subsidiaries | PEP stores, Ackermans, Dunns, Incredible Connection, Shoe City, Refinery, Tekkie Town, Bradlows, BUCO |
| Website | pepkor |
Pepkor is a South African-based investment and holding company focused on the discount and value consumer retail and fintech markets. The majority of operations are in South Africa, and operations extend to other African countries and Brazil. It manages retail brands, selling predominantly clothing, footwear, and homeware products, in addition to household furniture, appliances, consumer electronics, and building materials.
Its retail brands include PEP, Ackermans, Shoe City, Dunns, Tekkie Town, Refinery, S.P.C.C, CODE, Bradlows, Rochester, Sleepmasters, Incredible Connection, HiFi Corp, and BUCO. Its fintech operations provide financial and telecommunications services to customers in the formal and informal markets. Its Flash business supports 200 000 small-business traders in the informal market. Pepkor`s internally developed PAXI parcel delivery service very effectively leverages its expansive retail store footprint.[5]
- ^ "Bloomberg Businessweek: Pepkor profile". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
- ^ "Africa's Largest Clothing Retailer Taps Booming Phone Market". Bloomberg.com. 2022-11-22. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ^ "Pepkor (PPH.JO) - Revenue". companiesmarketcap.com. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ^ "S.Africa's Steinhoff raises $277 mln from selling Pepkor shares". Reuters. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ^ Moodley, Neesa (2022-11-22). "COMPANY RESULTS: Pepkor could become a more successful version of the SA Post Office delivering on average 11,500 parcels a day". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2023-03-16.