In December, Shoprite opened its first supermarket in Nairobi, in a location formerly occupied by the struggling Nakumatt grocer. It will add 3 stores in Kenya this year. Despite a particularly difficult 2018 year – the “worst in my whole career” said C.E.O. Pieter Engelbrecht – Shoprite has maintained its expansion. In South Africa – its n°1 market by sales – the economy entered
recession, the Group faced a large-scale outbreak of listeriosis and was hit by currency fluctuations in Angola and N
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