J. Erasmus
CEO & Director
Good day, and welcome to the outcomes for Pepkor. The interim outcomes for the 6 months ended 31 March 2026. As per standard, I am going to simply make just a few opening remarks, Riaan will take you thru the monetary outcomes. After which Sean and Garth will speak about what drives the enterprise, after which we’ll shut with an outlook of how buying and selling has been because the reporting interval after which enable for some questions and solutions.
So we’re very completely satisfied to present a results of 12.1% in normalized HEPS development for the 6 months. As we communicated to the Capital Markets Day a few weeks in the past, the surroundings stays robust, unemployment, price of dwelling, competitors nonetheless just like what we noticed a few weeks in the past, however our buyer focus — technique with buyer focus continues to ship the kind of outcomes that we will report.
Just a few highlights for the 6 months. To start with, our retail platform or our retailer base elevated to six,657 shops, which is 89 new shops. We efficiently carried out our focused acquisitions. Our monetary providers continues to develop exponentially, particularly pushed by FoneYam with 1.3 million activations in the course of the interval. And as we mentioned on the Capital Markets Day, we have got approval for our banking license. And hopefully, we will report again on that later this 12 months.
After which lastly, earlier than I hand over to Riaan, the casual market platform, which is now disclosed individually, continued to carry out very properly at a throughput of 20.3% for the 6 months or ZAR 34.7 billion.
