A good week

Gaining almost 30% in market value in a week must be no small victory for Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht. Besides steering the business through a pandemic, as well one of the toughest economic environments of the past few decades, Engelbrecht has had the inevitable comparison between his management and that of Shoprite’s lionised former leader, Whitey Basson, to endure. Well, his strategy appears to be paying off. Record sales, margins maintained, and a cracking good online offering to boot...

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