Shoprite group's sales surge, with Checkers Sixty60 service growing almost 50%

Stephen Grootes talks to CEO Pieter Engelbrecht after Shoprite Holdings posts its full year results.

Shoprite Holdings has reported that it surpassed the R250 billion sales mark in its financial year to end-June 2025.

This is an 8.9% increase over the previous period, with the increase alone equating to R20.6 billion, the Group says.

Trading profit was up 16.6% to R15 billion.

Diluted headline earnings per share (HEPS) rose 15.8% to 1367.2 cents a share.

The Shoprite group declared a full year dividend per share of 781 cents, up 9.7% over the previous period.

When it comes to South Africa, Shoprite and Usave’s turnover increased by 5.9%.

Checkers continued to gain market share, showing sales growth of 13.8%, with its sales from the Sixty60 delivery service jumping by 47.7%.

Group CEO Pieter Engelbrecht says Sixty60 is not simply an app or piece of web software.

He's also confident that there's more room to grow in the South African market.

"It's a platform and it's a scalable platform - that means we have the ability to start adding the rest of our business units also onto that platform, We are busy with that now."

Pieter Engelbrecht, CEO - Shoprite Holdings

"We've also now reached that point where we don't internally talk about bricks and mortar in digital anymore, we talk omnichannel. We believe that, unlike when Amazon say they are 'the everything store', WE are 'the everyday store'."

Pieter Engelbrecht, CEO - Shoprite Holdings

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