ROB ROSE: Hunger Games, Truworths-style
Three decades on, Michael Mark is still in charge, and a fraught succession process is looming
10 November 2022 - 05:00
Michael Mark, the CEO of Truworths, wasn’t yet a teenager in November 1965 when the Sunday Times breathlessly reported on a new flagship store on Joburg’s fashionable Eloff Street, heralding a “new era in South African shopping”.
“There is nothing like this building anywhere in the world,” one executive gushed. “It is the last word in fashion store design, with shopping innovations and revolutionary luxury design only seen in the most modern stores in the world’s fashion capitals.”..
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