Corporate Services supports operating businesses through finance and treasury, human resources, internal audit, investor relations, legal, compliance and risk, marketing, and tax functions.

Centralising many of these day-to-day business and regulatory functions allow us to use our economies of scale to save administration costs, and it provides a holistic group approach to group compliance.

Pepkor Installations was initially formalised in 2008 to service PEP. Today, it services all of Pepkor’s clothing and footwear brands. Pepkor Installations completes an average of 47 shopfitting projects per month, including new store roll-outs and refurbishments. It also assists with the design and implementation of new-look stores.

Pepkor Properties gives Pepkor’s brands the chance to grow through access to expert property knowledge and systems. Its comprehensive property offering includes:

property management;
identifying new locations;
preparing feasibility presentations;
payment of rental to respective landlords; and
the negotiation of leases and contracts.
Pepkor Properties is assisted by a financial and legal team that covers all aspects of property management.

Pepkor Sourcing & Services supports Pepkor’s clothing, footwear and homeware retailers in building strategic sourcing and technical capabilities. Key focus areas include:

• 3D sampling;
• local/regional sourcing opportunities;
• supplier/enterprise development;
• value-added sourcing; and
• group contract negotiations.

The Pepkor Product Solutions (PPS) group sourcing office is based in Shanghai, China with a dedicated team of 80 people.

Pepkor Logistics provides a product distribution service for Pepkor’s clothing and footwear brands. Its cost-effective and reliable delivery network makes it easy for Pepkor brands to deliver on their value-for-money and service promises to customers.

Pepkor IT reduces operational costs and strengthens productivity for Pepkor’s retail businesses. With services that include strategy, engineering and development, Pepkor IT plays an important role in helping the group’s various brands to develop effective business and, specifically, technology solutions to operate in a competitive environment.

Pepkor Payments and Lending supports the clothing and general merchandise brands in terms of credit sales through store cards to customers. The in-store revolving credit card now allows interoperability across all clothing and general merchandise stores (except PEP Africa and Avenida), providing more choice to customers and ensuring that credit is facilitated within the group.

Pep Clothing (PepClo) is a low-cost, high-volume mass manufacturer of school clothes and basic underwear that supplies PEP and Ackermans through four factory divisions.

PepClo is currently the largest manufacturing facility of its kind under one roof in South Africa, employing more than 1 700 people and delivering more than 11 million garments per year to retail outlets.