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

  • PEP operates more than 1 504 retail stores in Southern African, More than 12 500 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 other services such as cash-backs, Capfin (for loans), funeral policies, Flash electricity tokens 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

  • 640 million products will be sent to more than 1 504 stores
  • 256 million customer transactions will be conducted
  • 160 million airtime vouchers will be sold – 1000 every minute
  • 40 million disposable nappies will be sold – that’s 4 every trading second

PEPclub mobile operates the dial string *130*737# - a free platform that allows users to buy airtime and electricity, message each other free of charge and check their PEPclub reward updates.

Every second, PEP sells 17 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 to help customers plan their purchases


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

  • PEP has 48 stand-alone home-ware stores called PEPhome

  • PEP has more than 170 stand-alone PEPcell stores selling airtime and cellular products

PEP tries to be the friendliest retailer in Southern Africa

PEP aims to be the most exciting retailer in Southern Africa