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  • PEP opened its first store in 1965 in the Northern Cape

  • PEP operates more than 1 400 retail stores in Southern African, More than 12 000 people are employed by PEP

  • PEP aims to help its customers to look and feel good

  • Each PEP region is empowered to give back to the communities at a local level

As well as clothing and footwear, PEP sells home-ware, beauty, cellular and airtime products and also offers a range of money services – including mobile money (including e-wallet, payments to third parties and cash-backs), Capfin (for loans), funeral policies and more …

PEP Sells

  • 50% of all the blankets sold in South Africa
  • 50% of all the school wear sold in South Africa
  • 50% of all the cell-phone handsets sold in South Africa

This year over

  • 600 million products will be sent to more than 1400 stores
  • 240 million customer transactions will be conducted
  • 146 million airtime vouchers will be sold – 950 vouchers every minute
  • 43 million disposable nappies will be sold - that’s 4.2 every trading second
Iphone

PEP launched PEPtxt, a downloadable mobile application which allows users to message one another for free.

Every second, PEP sells 16 airtime vouchers
PEP is the first SA retailer to launch its own cell phone starter pack – PEPcell, powered by MTN

  • PEP operates a lay-bye system so that customers pay cash with no interest


  • Margins are kept low so that more people are able to buy from PEP

  • More stand-alone home-ware stores – PEP Home - are being opened

  • PEP has more than 100 stand-alone PEPcell stores that sell airtime and cellular products

PEP aims to be the friendliest retailer in Southern Africa

PEP aims to be the most exciting retailer in Southern Africa