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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| ZSE: EDGR | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 6 September 1929 |
| Founder | Sydney Press |
| Headquarters | Johannesburg, CBD Bree street, , |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, accessories, sporting goods |
| Services | clothing retail, homeware retail, stationery retail |
| Revenue | R28.7 billion |
Number of employees | 44,000[1] |
| Parent | Bain Capital |
| Subsidiaries | Edgars Consolidated Department Stores |
| Website | edcon.co.za |
Edgars is the primary and original brand of Edcon.
A Jet clothing store in Cape Town.
A CNA book and stationery store.
A Boardmans storefront in Canal Walk mall in 2016, two years before the brand was discontinued.
Edcon Limited was a retail company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Its subsidiaries included Edgars, a department store with 203[2] branches.[3][4] In 2020, the Competition Tribunal approved the sale of the Edgars division to Retailability (pty) Ltd,[5] and Jet to The Foschini Group.
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- ^ "ZIM:EDGARS - Google Finance Search". finance.google.com. Retrieved 2017-08-31.[dead link]
- ^ "Edgars - Online Shop For Clothing, Shoes, Homeware & Beauty Products". www.edgars.co.za. Archived from the original on 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ^ "Competition Commission approves sale of parts of Edgars to Retailability". BusinessLIVE. Retrieved 2021-08-13.