Clicks Group is a retail-led healthcare group which has been listed on the JSE since 1996. Through retail brands Clicks, The Body Shop and Clicks Baby, the Group has over 841 stores across southern Africa. The Group remains focused on the South Afric...
BERTINA ENGELBRECHT CEO of Clicks Group Limited Read more
Annual results from Clicks, and another pleasing performance from this steadiest of retailers, with Group turnover up +8.2% (ex. COVID vaccines) to R41.6bn, and operating profit up +9% to R3.6bn. Retail turnover, even better, increasing +12.2% (ex. C... More »
In its 2023 ‘Most Valuable South African Brands’ report, Kantar BrandZ has rated Clicks as the top brand for ‘experience and function’, and the ‘most meaningful brand’ overall. A meaningful brand, according to Kantar, creates clear and consistent fun... More »
Big news for Clicks this week, which has just got the nod from the Competition Commission for the acquisition of selected stores of Sorbet Holdings from Old Mutual Private Equity. These include Sorbet Experience, Sorbet Man, Sorbet Man Woodlands and ... More »
Unaudited interims for the six months through Feb from Clicks; how’s their year shaking out? Turnover was up +6.8% (excluding vaccines) to a nice neat R20bn, with retail turnover increasing +11.9%, and something they’re calling ‘adjusted total income... More »
A seven-year haul through the courts of the land and Clicks has at last been dealt the blow it feared, by a five-four majority of the Constitutional Court, which ruled last week that it may no longer earn its keep as both a seller and a manufacturer ... More »
HEAD OFFICE
Cnr. Searle and Pontac Streets
Cape Town
8001
PO Box 5142
Cape Town
8000
TEL 021 460 1911
FAX 021 461 8221
WEBSITE
www.clicksgroup.co.za
www.clicks.co.za
www.thebodyshop.co.za
www.upd.co.za
www.directmedicines.co.za
Clicks Group is a retail-led healthcare group which has been listed on the JSE since 1996. Through retail brands Clicks, The Body Shop and Clicks Baby, the Group has over 841 stores across southern Africa. The Group remains focused on the South African market which it regards as holding potential for expansion into under-served areas.
Clicks was launched in 1968 when entrepreneur Jack Goldin opened the first store in Cape Town. By the time it listed in 1979, the Group had expanded to 30 stores nationally. After a series of sales (Score Food Group in 1988 and Premier Group in 1992), Malbak subsidiary New Clicks Holdings acquired the company in 1995.
From the late 1990s, with the expected changing of the law to allow ownership of pharmacies by individuals (and businesses) other than pharmacists, New Clicks Holdings readied itself to achieve a long cherished dream: the integration of pharmacies into the stores of the flagship Clicks division. The first Clicks pharmacy was opened in Cape Town in March 2004. Today, headed by CEO Bertina Engelbrecht, Clicks is the largest pharmacy chain in South Africa with over 612 in-store dispensaries, servicing all shopper segments.
The expressed end-goal for the Clicks Group is to have a pharmacy in each of its stores. Another major growth point for Clicks is its private label penetration, which is in line with its pay-less approach, saving customers money whilst they still look and feel good.
For insight into Clicks’ financial & operational performance and strategic growth imperatives, contact Trade Intelligence on 031 303 2803 or info@tradeintelligence.co.za