Woolworths South Africa

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Woolworths Holdings Limited

A Woolworths Food in Johannesburg, Gauteng
Company type	Public
Traded as	JSE: WHL
ISIN	ZAE000063863
Industry	Retail
Founded	1931; 93 years ago (1931)
Founder	Max Sonnenberg
Headquarters	93 Longmarket Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Area served	Botswana Eswatini Kenya Lesotho Mauritius Mozambique Namibia South Africa Tanzania Zambia
Key people	Roy Bagattini (Group CEO) Hubert Brody (Chairman)
Products	Clothing, footwear, accessories, groceries, beauty products, homeware and financial services.
Revenue	R85.6 Billion (2021)
Operating income	R6.87 Billion (2021)
Net income	R4.16 Billion (2021)
Number of employees	45,000
Divisions	Woolworths (South Africa) Country Road Group (Australia) Woolworths Financial Services
Website	www.woolworthsholdings.co.za www.woolworths.co.za

Woolworths Holdings Limited is a South African multinational retail company that owns Woolworths, a South African luxury department store chain, and Australian retailer Country Road Group. Woolworths, however, has no association to Australia's Woolworths supermarket chain.

The South African Woolworths business consists of luxury goods, being fashion, home and beauty stores, many of which incorporate a premium food retail offering. Stand-alone food stores and "Food Stops" attached to Engen petrol stations are found in urban areas. Woolworths operates 218 full-line stores and 430 food stand-alone stores in South Africa,^[when?] with 64 stores throughout the rest of Africa.^[when?] Woolworths sells clothing and accessory items under a number of brands, namely Studio W, RE: and Edition, with the Group's Australian brands Country Road, Witchery and Trenery also represented.

The Group's Australian-based specialty apparel and homewares retail subsidiary, Country Road Group, operates 557 stores^[when?] (and a further 242 concession locations within David Jones). The Group operates under separate brands Country Road, Witchery, Trenery, Mimco and Politix.