Woolworths Holdings

Based in Cape Town, Woolworths Holdings is widely regarded as one of South Africa's flagship retail operators. Its scale — about 43k people, around $4B in turnover — translates into genuine strategic weight across Sub-Saharan Africa.

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“Woolworths Holdings is, in its category, exactly the kind of compounding regional champion the next decade of capital allocation will reward.”

Few catalysts on the horizon look bearish; the central scenario is a continued, controlled compounding story.