Shoprite grows sales digits and ups dividend
Shoprite Holdings, the owner of Checkers, has seen a significant increase in sales over the 2023 financial year. The company has revealed it results for the year ended 2nd of July 2023 that showed great results for the retailer. Group merchandise sales increased by 16.9% to R215.0 billion, while local merchandise sales increased by 17.8%
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Shoprite Holdings, the owner of Checkers, has seen a significant increase in sales over the 2023 financial year.
The company has revealed it results for the year ended 2nd of July 2023 that showed great results for the retailer. Group merchandise sales increased by 16.9% to R215.0 billion, while local merchandise sales increased by 17.8% to R173.6 billion.
Between Checkers and Checkers Hyper, the sales went up by 18.0%, which can be attributed to “superb delivery on the value and range our customers have come to know, trust and expect from the brand”, Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht said.
The Checkers Sixty60 sales grew by 81.5%, “underscoring the continued growth of our Checkers omnichannel customer and validating our strategy in terms of our investment in digital and data-led decision making”, whereas, Shoprite and Usave saw sales growth of 15.6%.
All of this raised the company’s earnings, as headline earnings per share rose 9.6% and basic earnings per share rose 10%. EBITDA increased by 13.0% to R18.8 billion. Engelbrecht said: “In the context of the country’s power challenges, we are pleased to still report growth in headline earnings and dividends per share. It is disappointing, however, that if not for the R1.3 billion diesel expense incurred to power generators across our South African store base, our market-leading sales growth would have delivered considerably higher returns for our shareholders.”
Engelbrecht added that similarly, their profit growth would also have resulted in a higher Shoprite Employee Trust distribution for their employees. The company’s trading profit increased by 5.7% from R11.28 billion in 2022 to R11.92 billion.
In the middle of the year, Shoprite opened a net number of 340 stores. Of these, 94 stores were acquired from Massmart Holdings, of which 92 were integrated into Shoprite, Usave and Shoprite LiquorShop businesses. It created 8,131 new jobs in FY 2023, including 4,480 jobs retained from the Massmart acquisition. It also went on to declare a full-year dividend per share (DPS) of 663 cents – a 10.5% increase from 2022.
This results from the interim DPS increasing by 6.4% to 248 cents (2022: 233 cents) and the final DPS rising by 13.1% to 415 cents (2022: 367 cents).
