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Massmart Holdings Limited is a South African firm that owns local brands such as Game, Makro, Builder's Warehouse and CBW.It is the second-largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa, the largest retailer of general merchandise, liquor and home improvement equipment and wholesaler of basic foods. [4]
The company's joint venture in South Africa ended in February 1997. [16] In May 2011, it was announced that Wickes had purchased thirteen stores from the appointed administrators of Focus DIY, Ernst & Young, saving 345 jobs. [17] By 2017, the company had over two hundred stores in the United Kingdom. [18]
This is a list of notable shopping centres in South Africa with the aim of including all (and only) shopping centres with at least two anchor stores such as hypermarkets, supermarkets, department stores, or multicinemas, or which are otherwise notable. GLA = gross leasable area.
Shoprite is a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and A2X Markets in South Africa, with secondary listings on both the Namibian and Lusaka stock exchanges. The Shoprite Group employs more than 163,000 people and is the largest private sector employer in South Africa. By 2025, Shoprite had 3,417 stores in 10 African ...
In 1972, the union absorbed the Coloured, Malay and Asiatic Building Workers' Union, followed in 1980 by the majority of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers of South Africa. This took its membership up to 19,000. [7] In 1991, it was a founding affiliate of the short-lived Federation of Independent Trade Unions. [8]
In 1959, Trimble retired and sold his store to Nick Eppes and Henry Edenfield, who operated Eppes-Edenfield Hardware until 1995. In 1948, Trimble built a home on 10 acres of a former pecan grove.
The first shop opened in corner President and Eloff streets in Johannesburg and over the years the brand grew to have more than 100 shops around South Africa. OK Bazaars and Garlick's were the two, two-story department stores anchoring the original shopping levels of the Carlton Centre, at the time the tallest building in Africa. [2]
Masco went on to capture the mass market as sales moved from plumbing wholesalers to retail stores. [8] These steps of production and marketing of the Delta faucet began in 1954, and four years later Delta Faucet's annual sales exceeded a million dollars. [3] This was the last year that the company would be referred to as Masco Screw Products ...