{"id":13724,"date":"2012-08-21T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/shoprite-to-spend-205-mln-on-nigerian-real-estate\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:04:47","slug":"shoprite-to-spend-205-mln-on-nigerian-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/shoprite-to-spend-205-mln-on-nigerian-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoprite to spend $205 mln on Nigerian real estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 21 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Shoprite<br \/>\n plants to spend up to 1.7 billion rand ($205 million)<br \/>\non securing new locations in Nigeria, its chief executive said<br \/>\non Tuesday, as Africa&#8217;s top retailer ramps up sub-Saharan<br \/>\nexpansion.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whitey Basson made the comment following the release of the<br \/>\ncompany&#8217;s full-year results. Shares of Shoprite were up nearly 2<br \/>\npercent at 159.34 rand at 1026 GMT.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 8.3059 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; writing by David Dolan;<br \/>\nEditing by Ed Stoddard)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Aug 21 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Shoprite plants to spend up to 1.7 billion rand ($205 million) on securing new locations in Nigeria, its chief executive said on Tuesday, as Africa&#8217;s top retailer ramps up sub-Saharan expansion. Whitey Basson made the comment following the release of the company&#8217;s full-year results. Shares of Shoprite were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}