2013/04/25

Cape Town – Keith Warburton has been appointed to the newly-created position of chief operating officer of the Clicks chain.

Warburton, 55, is a highly experienced retail executive who served as chief financial officer of the Clicks Group from 2005 to 2011. He resigned...

2013/04/25

Cape Town – Clicks Group today reported turnover growth of 11.4% to
R8.5 billion for the six months to February 2013, with headline earnings increasing by 10.0% to R366 million.

The interim dividend was increased by 10.0% to 48.5 cents per share, while the gr...

2012/10/18Cape Town – Clicks Group today reported a 9.5% increase in diluted headline earnings per share to 273.4 cents for the year to August 2012 as operating profit exceeded
R1 billion for the first time.
 
The total dividend was increased by 21.6% to 152.0 cents per sha...

2012/04/26

Cape Town – Clicks Group today reported a 7.6% increase in diluted headline earnings per share to 131.5 cents for the six months to February 2012 and increased its share of the total health and beauty market.

The interim dividend was increased by 19.2% to 44.1 cents per ...

2011/10/20

Cape Town – Clicks Group today reported an 18.1% increase in diluted headline earnings per share to 249.7 cents for the year to August 2011 as the Clicks chain continued its strong performance.

A final distribution of 88.0 cents per share was declared, bringing th...

2011/04/14Cape Town – Clicks Group, the listed health and beauty retail and supply group, today reported a 22.2% increase in diluted headline earnings per share to 122.2 cents for the six months to February 2011, driven by the strong performance from the Clicks chain and the benefits of...

2010/11/22Cape Town – Clicks Group has welcomed the dispensing fee regulations published by the Department of Health on Friday which set a maximum dispensing fee which may be charged by retail pharmacists. Clicks Group chief executive, David Kneale, said the new four-tier fee st...

2010/10/21CLICKS GROUP EARNINGS UP 27% ON STRONG RETAIL TRADING Cape Town – Clicks Group today reported a 27.4% increase in diluted headline earnings per share to 211.4 cents for the year to 31 August 2010, driven largely by continued strong retail trading and efficient margin m...

2010/10/21EMPLOYEES TO ACQUIRE 10% OF SHARES IN CLICKS GROUP Cape Town - Clicks Group today announced a broad-based employee share ownership scheme which will see 10% of the group’s shares issued to employees. The transaction is valued at R1.2 billion, based on the group...

2010/04/22STRONG RETAIL TRADING LIFTS CLICKS GROUP EARNINGS BY 25% Cape Town – Clicks Group today announced a 24.5% increase in diluted headline earnings per share to 100 cents for the six months to end February 2010, boosted by the continued strong trading results from the Clic...

2009/10/22Cape Town – Healthcare retail and supply group Clicks Group increased diluted headline earnings per share by 26.2% to 165.9 cents per share in the year to 31 August 2009, driven by strong trading from the flagship Clicks chain and efficient cash and capital management....

2009/04/30Cape Town – Healthcare retail group New Clicks Holdings today reported strong trading and financial results for the six months to February 2009, with diluted headline earnings per share increasing 18.8% to 80.3 cents.

The interim distribution was increased by 30.3% to 24.5...

2009/02/05Congratulations to David Kneale and his team. New Clicks Holdings was recognized in three categories in this year’s CRF Leadership Excellence Awards: Our CEO, David Kneale, was ranked Number 3 Leading Manager for 2008/09; New Clicks th...

2009/02/03HIGHLIGHTS •        Clicks turnover up 13.1%•        Retail sales up 11.1% RETAIL TRADING Retail sales increased by 11.1% for the four months ended December 2008, with a particula...

2008/10/23Cape Town - New Clicks Holdings continued to experience resilient trading in a slowing consumer economy and generated strong real sales growth in the year ended 31 August 2008. Diluted headline earnings per share for the period increased by 28.1% to 131.9 cents. Group ...

2008/08/11New Clicks has acquired a 60% stake in leading courier pharmacy business, Direct Medicines, for a cash payment of R13.2 million. David Kneale, group chief executive of New Clicks, said the acquisition will enable Clicks to broaden its coverage in the retail pharmacy ma...

2008/07/31Health and beauty retail specialist Clicks continues to entrench its position as the country’s largest retail pharmacy chain and opened its 150th pharmacy at the Hyde Park shopping centre in Johannesburg today. Following the opening of South Africa’s first corporate re...

2008/07/10Cape Town - Musica has reacted with disappointment at the outcome of the court case in which it was found guilty of being negligent in not taking reasonable steps to verify the authenticity of 68 Sony Playstation 2 controllers and memory cards sold in two of its stores in Marc...

2008/04/24

Cape Town – Specialist retail group New Clicks Holdings increased diluted headline earnings per share by 25.8% to 67.8 cents in the six months to end February 2008, as the group experienced resilient trading and benefited from its share buy-back programme.

Headline...

2008/04/24

RMB Morgan Stanley CEO says look past the banks to this “underappreciated” defensive retailer

As many fund managers are singing the praises of bank stocks, some are looking beyond financial shares to those in the retail sector.

The jury is sti...

2008/04/24

Johannesburg, Apr 24 (I-Net Bridge) South African specialist retail group New Clicks (NCL) on Thursday reported a 25.8% rise in diluted headline earnings per share to 67.8 cents for the six months ended February from 53.9 cents previously.

An interim dis...

2008/04/24

Benedict Kelly

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY has been repeatedly slammed for being slow to adapt to the digital era. While independent labels mov...

2008/02/05Cape Town - New Clicks Holdings has strengthened its board of directors and enhanced transformation with the appointment of three black female directors with effect from 1 March 2008. The group has appointed Professor Fatima Abrahams and Fatima Jakoet as independent no...

2007/11/13November 07, 2007 Edition 2 JOHANNESBURG: A major retailer announced yesterday that it had crushed more than 56 000 of the conventional light bulbs it stocked and was only selling energy-efficient bulbs. While this ca...

2007/08/17

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2007/06/01Cape Town – Specialist retail group New Clicks Holdings is to sell retail business Discom to Edcon for R369 million. Discom is an ethnic hair care and beauty retailer serving the lower to middle income customer market.

Group chief executive, David Kneale, said the core exp...

2006/12/21

The board of directors has approved a distribution of 22 cents per share (2005:
18.5 cents per share) comprising a final cash dividend of 6.8 cents per share
and a distribution out of share premium of 15.2 cents per share in lieu of a
dividend (co...

2006/12/21

Cape Town – Health and beauty retailer, New Clicks, says the proliferation of quasi-wholesalers in the pharmaceutical sector is inflating the cost of medicine to consumers and the group has called on the country’s healthcare regulators to apply stricter criteria for licensing ...

2006/10/31

Cape Town – New Clicks has welcomed the pharmacy dispensing fee regulations announced by the Department of Health today, saying the new four-tiered pricing structure will bring much-needed stability to retail pharmacists and clarity to consumers. New Clicks chief execu...

2006/10/25Cape Town – South Africa’s largest music and entertainment retailer, Musica, has launched Musica Megastores which will offer customers over 30 000 CD and DVD titles in its large format stores. The first four Musica Megastores have been converted from CD Wherehouse, th...

2006/09/26Cape Town – Health and beauty retailer Clicks has introduced a branded credit card as an extension of its successful Clicks ClubCard loyalty programme. David Kneale, chief executive of Clicks parent New Clicks Holdings, said a Clicks-branded credit card is a logical...

2006/06/02Cape Town – Specialist retail group New Clicks Holdings continues to strengthen its senior management team with the appointment of Bertina Engelbrecht as group director for human resources and organisational development with effect from 1 July 2006. An experie...

2006/01/23Cape Town - David Kneale has been appointed chief executive officer of New Clicks Holdings to succeed Trevor Honneysett who will be taking early retirement from the group. Mr Kneale (51) was appointed deputy chief executive officer of the group in Oc...

2005/10/10Cape Town – Retail chain Clicks was on Monday trading out of all its stores, as the SACCAWU-led strike over wage demands entered its fourth day. Michael Harvey, brand leader of Clicks, said a few sporadic labour incidents were reported on Friday and over the w...

2005/10/07Cape Town – Retail chain Clicks was trading out of all its 290 stores across the country today, despite a strike called by trade union SACCAWU after the parties failed to reach agreement on the annual wage increase. Clicks has offered a wage increase of R225 per month ...

2004/08/31New Clicks Holdings is to appeal the Cape High Court’s judgment to dismiss its application to have the medicine pricing regulations overturned. On Friday 27 August the court dismissed the application by New Clicks and others to overturn the medicine pricing regulations...

2004/07/07The incidence of skin cancer in South Africa is amongst the highest in the world and is on the increase, with more than 10 000 new cases being diagnosed annually. However, skin cancer is preventable and, if detected early, is highly curable. 80% of skin damage that ca...

2004/06/01New Clicks has launched a pilot project for a new brand, Style Studio, which combines a retail store selling professional hair care products with a hair salon. The store format is unique in South Africa, with stores carrying a comprehensive range of hair care products and rela...

2004/05/16Cape Town – Specialist retail group, New Clicks Holdings, today outlined the plans for the implementation of its healthcare strategy in response to the far-reaching changes to legislation governing pharmacy ownership which were announced late last month. Addressing an ...

2004/04/22 Cape Town – Listed retail group New Clicks Holdings increased headline earnings from continuing operations by 36% to R137,8 million in the six months to 29 February 2004. Diluted headline earnings per share from continuing operations rose by 26,1% to 38,2 cents per share....

2004/02/17Further to the announcement dated 5 January 2004, Investec Bank Limited is authorised to announce that the conditions precedent to the agreement, in terms of which NCH and its wholly owned subsidiary, New Clicks International Holdings NV (together “New Clicks”), agreed to disp...

2004/02/04National retail group New Clicks Holdings, which will soon be opening pharmacies in several of its Clicks stores around the country, today launched a training programme for state hospitals in the Free State to provide courses for pharmacists’ assistants, assessors and also con...

2003/10/16 Cape Town – Multi-brand retail group, New Clicks Holdings, has increased turnover by 34% to R7,4 billion in the year to end August 2003, bolstered by the acquisition of New United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD) during the period. The growth in turnover, excluding t...

2003/10/16 Cape Town – The Competition Tribunal today granted unconditional approval for New Clicks Holdings to acquire four companies, namely Purchase Milton & Associates (Pty) Ltd, Milton & Associates (Pty) Ltd, J&G Purchase (Pty) Ltd and Leon Katz (Pty) Ltd. These companies are colle...

2003/06/17Cape Town - New Clicks Holdings today announced that Peter Green, an executive director and head of group finance, had resigned from the group with immediate effect. Green has been with the group for 25 years and was appointed to the board of directors in 1996.