PICK n PAY EXPANDS ITS PRESENCE IN ZAMBIA

Multi-national supermarket stores operator, Pick n Pay has opened its 5^th outlet in Zambia, in the mining town of Kitwe.

The South African company first came to Zambia in 2010, and it already operates 3 stores in the capital, Lusaka and one on Ndola, another mining town on the Copperbelt.

According to a statement released to the media, Pick n Pay plans to open another store in Luanshya, another mining town on the Copperbelt.

Pick n Pay operates 94 stores in Africa, outside South Africa, including one in Lesotho, 10 in Swaziland, nine in Botswana, 17 in Namibia, one in Mozambique.

Others are two in Mauritius and 48 in Zimbabwe, and it has also set plans to expand its regional presence into Malawi next year and the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014.