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2024

• The Shoprite Group was named Company of the Year at the News24 Business Awards in Cape Town on 14 March 2024. The award acknowledges the company’s exceptional business growth, communication, transparency, and overall contribution to South Africa. CEO, Pieter Engelbrecht, said the award was a symbol of “ordinary people doing the extraordinary”.
• The Group reports double-digit growth with half year sales reaching R121.1 billion (increased by 13.9%) for the 26 weeks ended 31 December 2023, with diluted headline earnings per share (DHEPS) increasing by 7.6% to 621.4 cents.

2023

• Checkers’ premium private label range, Forage and Feast, wins the coveted NielsenIQ BASES Breakthrough Innovation Award in the food category for 2023 (November 2023).
• The Group is honoured for its transformative youth employment initiatives at the Youth Employment Service (YES)’s inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Awards in October.
• The Shoprite Group reports sales increasing by 16.9% to R215.0 billion for the 52 weeks to 2 July 2023, with diluted headline earnings per share (DHEPS) increasing by 9.7%.

• The Group opens its first clothing store in March at Canal Walk shopping centre in Cape Town. UNIQ clothing by Checkers is a standalone brand providing quality wardrobe basics.
• Shoprite becomes the first retailer in South Africa to introduce an exclusive private label product range (calledHomegrown) which is locally sourced from primarily small, medium and micro enterprises.
• Shoprite Holdings launches a secondary listing on the A2X, while the Group’s main listing remains on the JSE Limited.
• Red Star Wholesale and Catering Services (formerly known as Checkers Food Services) expands their offering to KwaZulu-Natal in March 2023, adding to their existing footprint in Gauteng and the Western Cape.
• The Shoprite Foundation (the Group’s non-profit organisation) is established to empower communities through education and skills development, employees through the Shoprite Employee Trust, and develop SMMEs through ESD initiatives.

2022

• The Shoprite Group has made anotherminority investment in a South African tech start-up, Omnisient, Africa’s first privacy-preserving data collaboration platform provider. 
• To further assist suppliers with access to funding at affordable rates, the Group launches its new supply chain finance product, CredX in September 2022. 
• The Shoprite Group reports sales increasing by 9.6% to (R184.1 billion) for the 52 weeks to 3 July 2022, with diluted headline earnings per share (DHEPS) increasing by 10.0%.
• The Group’s joint venture agreement with RTT On Demand was finalised and Pingo Delivery (Pty) Ltd established.Pingo, the new on-demand delivery platform business, will provide a platform for last-mile logistics.  
• In June 2022, the Group launched Shoprite Next Capital, a business division dedicated to the growth of small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs).
• The Shoprite Group ranked first in the retail sector for data transparency in Environmental Social and Governance/Sustainability in the 2022 IRAS Sustainability Data Transparency Index (SDTI).

• In May 2022, Shoprite Holdings announces an evergreen B-BBEE employee trust at its subsidiary Shoprite Checkers Proprietary Limited. 
• The first Checkers Outdoor, the Group’s standalone outdoor store, opens in Hermanus in April. The brand specialises in camping and braai accessories, and high-tech gadgets for nature enthusiasts.
• In the 2022 Deloitte Global Powers of Retailing survey, Shoprite Holdings Ltd. is listed as the largest retailer in the Africa/Middle East region, rising seven places to the 100th position in the global rankings.
• The Group reports salesincreasing by 10.0% to R91.1 billion for the 26 weeks ended 2 January 2022 with diluted headline earnings per share (DHEPS) increasing by 25.2% to 519.3 cents.