Pepkor Holdings Limited -An integral part of the Pepkor business model is to ensure that we enhance and add value to both our customers’ and our employees’ lives. This includes our corporate social responsibility initiatives, which form an essential part of our business. Our four strategic pillars are interlocked and collectively focus on empowering people by meeting our customers’ needs for value-for-money products at the best possible prices, and at their convenience. Woolworths Holding Limited -In 2021, we refreshed our WHL Strategic Framework to ensure its relevance to our Group in the context of the rapidly evolving consumer landscape as we pursue our aspiration of being a leading, purpose driven, and truly connected retailer. This framework centres around three STRATEGIC THEMES. The first is to protect and grow our core businesses to ensure we safeguard the foundation of what truly differentiates us from our competitors. The second strategic theme is to expand for more and leverage our platform further by pursuing both underdeveloped and new growth opportunities. The third is leading in customer experience. We became a great business by putting our customers at the centre of everything we do, and this must remain the case as we both protect and grow our core businesses and expand for more. *The one thing that both PEP and Woolworths have in common is that they are both well know retail brands to the South African consumer. Yet when it come to their holding company’s strategies they are worlds apart. 1.Using Porters generic strategies, identify the different business level strategies used by both Pepkor Holdings and Woolworths Holdings

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Pepkor Holdings Limited

-An integral part of the Pepkor business model is to ensure that we enhance and add value to both our customers’ and our employees’ lives. This includes our corporate social responsibility initiatives, which form an essential part of our business. Our four strategic pillars are interlocked and collectively focus on empowering people by meeting our customers’ needs for value-for-money products at the best possible prices, and at their convenience.

 

Woolworths Holding Limited

-In 2021, we refreshed our WHL Strategic Framework to ensure its relevance to our Group in the context of the rapidly evolving consumer landscape as we pursue our aspiration of being a leading, purpose driven, and truly connected retailer. This framework centres around three STRATEGIC THEMES. The first is to protect and grow our core businesses to ensure we safeguard the foundation of what truly differentiates us from our competitors. The second strategic theme is to expand for more and leverage our platform further by pursuing both underdeveloped and new growth opportunities. The third is leading in customer experience. We became a great business by putting our customers at the centre of everything we do, and this must remain the case as we both protect and grow our core businesses and expand for more.

*The one thing that both PEP and Woolworths have in common is that they are both well know retail brands to the South African consumer. Yet when it come to their holding company’s strategies they are worlds apart.

 

1.Using Porters generic strategies, identify the different business level strategies used by both Pepkor Holdings and Woolworths Holdings

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