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• SPAR It should Polish up nicely though

  Those SPAR interims to which we alluded last week: as we reported, the acquisition of the loss-making Polish enterprise Piotr i Paweł, which requires still to be restructured and reorganised, saw the Jolly Green One post a decline in normalised dilut... More »

  • Business Report 22/05/20

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• SPAR Fanplastic

  The Jolly Green One demonstrates that it is possible during a pandemic to both walk and chew gum at the same time, provided there has been no panic buying of gum. Or better, that it is possible to take meaningful measures against one crisis while con... More »

  • Tatler Reporter 04/14/2020

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• SPAR Drink on it… or maybe not

  A trading statement from SPAR, who have let it be known that sales grew +5.4% YoY for the 18 weeks through January, for a total of R39.79bn. SPAR Southern Africa grew sales +4.9%, and its core SPAR business +6.1%, with same store sales up by +4.6%. T... More »

  • IOL 12/02/20

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• SPAR A Polished performance

  A very tidy set of results indeed from among the green hills and deep shaded valleys of KwaZulu-Natal. SPAR Southern Africa – the only listed SPAR globally, ahem – grew turnover +8.4% to R109.5bn for the year through September, with operating profit ... More »

  • Tatler Reporter 13/11/19

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• SPAR Owed on a Grecian Earn

  If you can get to the bottom of the dust up between SPAR and the Giannacopoulos family, call us, and we’ll send a rope down. Last we heard, the family, which owns 41 stores, had been handed back control of the businesses in both the Pietermaritzburg ... More »

  • IOL 10/11/19

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