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Walmart in Africa

By putting good business at the center of what we do, Massmart is able to create thoughtful choices for a better future and develop opportunities for our associates, customers and stakeholders to prosper. Massmart is focused on helping people save money and live better, underpinned by the approach to doing business in a responsible way.

Location Facts

Massmart Operating Partner: Andrea Albright

Corporate Website: massmart.co.za

Brands: Builders Express, Builders Superstore, Builders Warehouse, Cambridge, Cash & Carry, Game, Jumbo, Makro, Rhino

Countries of Operation: 8

Africa (total)

  Total retail units1: 330
  • Builders Express: 57
  • Builders Superstore: 15
  • Builders Trade Depot: 4
  • Builders Warehouse: 42
  • Cambridge: 8
  • Cash & Carry: 39
  • Game: 121
  • Jumbo: 10
  • Makro: 22
  • Rhino: 2

Botswana

  Total retail units1: 10
  • Builders Warehouse: 2
  • Cash & Carry: 6
  • Game: 2

Eswatini

  Total retail units1: 1
  • Cash & Carry: 1

Lesotho

  Total retail units1: 3
  • Cash & Carry: 2
  • Game: 1

Malawi

  Total retail units1: 2
  • Game: 2

Mozambique

  Total retail units1: 5
  • Builders Express: 1
  • Builders Warehouse: 2
  • Game: 2

Namibia

  Total retail units1: 5
  • Cash & Carry: 1
  • Game: 4

South Africa

  Total retail units1: 287
  • Builders Express: 55
  • Builders Superstore: 15
  • Builders Trade Depot: 4
  • Builders Warehouse: 36
  • Cambridge: 8
  • Cash & Carry: 28
  • Game: 107
  • Jumbo: 10
  • Makro: 22
  • Rhino: 2

Zambia

  Total retail units1: 7
  • Builders Express: 1
  • Builders Warehouse: 2
  • Cash & Carry: 1
  • Game: 3

1. Total retail units as of 2024/10/31.

Our Business

Builders

Builders is the Southern African leader in Home Improvement, DIY and Building Materials. The four Builders’ store formats – Warehouse, Express, Trade Depot and Superstore – cater to different markets with their own personalized feel and service offering, which are complimented by our online platform. Builders stores offer exceptional value to customers, a comprehensive range of competitively priced products, and helpful services.


Builders Warehouse

Is our warehouse retail format. Builders Warehouse offers an extensive range of competitively priced products with a large garden center display and Builders’ supply yard.


Builders Express

Caters to the homeowner and DIY enthusiast placed in convenient locations, a customer friendly store layout with pleasing displays, and personalized service and advice, making it a “one-stop” shopping experience.


Builders Superstore

Focus on underserved markets around the country. The stores are situated in dense residential, township, rural and developing areas, and conveniently located near commuter nodes.

Front view of a Builders Warehouse Store

Game

Game is a multi-category discount retailer of appliances, electronics, lifestyle merchandise, groceries, liquor and Value-Added Services, operating throughout South Africa and in markets throughout sub-Saharan Africa.


Cambridge Food and Rhino Cash & Carry

Cambridge Food and Rhino Cash & Carry are food retailers with stores trading in all nine provinces of South Africa. At Cambridge and Rhino we offer our customer a wide range of quality national brands plus goods that we source and package under our own brand label across all major categories of fresh and perishable products, groceries, general merchandise, and appropriate services, mostly for cash.

Game, Sub-Saharan Africa

Massmart Wholesale

Massmart Wholesale comprises Makro, Cash & Carry and Shield.


Makro

Makro sells Food, Liquor and General Merchandise categories, catering for retail, commercial and wholesale customers.


Cash & Carry

Cash & Carry sells Food, Liquor and General Merchandise categories and includes the brands CBW, Jumbo Cash & Carry, Sunshine, Trident, Eureka and Saverite. It caters for Commercial and Wholesale customers.


Shield

Shield (a voluntary buying association) services wholesale and independent trader customers.

Makro exterior

Our Commitment

At Massmart, we believe that being socially and environmentally responsible, and being committed to ethical practices and good governance, is key to how we wish to do business and the creation of long-term stakeholder value.


Massmart’s efforts to reduce its impact on the environment include water-use efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation, reducing waste generation and sustainable sourcing and product screening.


The corporate social investment program focuses on reducing food insecurity and foundation phase education efforts in underserved communities. Additionally, a top priority for the business is advancing Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) as a key driver of economic and social inclusion and reducing inequalities.

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