DIANNA GAMES: Shoprite exit shows Nigeria is not an easy place for business
06 August 2020 - 15:52
In 2005, former Shoprite CEO Whitey Basson said he was not expecting any competition in Nigeria any time soon, after it took him several years to get the first store up and running in Lagos.
And he was right. The first real competition emerged a few years later, coming from a Nigerian company, the Artee Group, after it was awarded the Spar licence for the country...
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