EDGARS

Serving upper and middle class families in Southern Africa, Edgars is a national department store offering value, genuine priced essentials, nationally and internationally. The retail store supplies individuals with clothing, footwear, textiles, accessories and cosmetics. Edgars also includes stand-alone speciality stores, which bears the Edgars sign like Red Square cosmetics and Accessoreyes Sunglasses, housed within the Edgars stores. They offer a range of career opportunities in mind of reaching an executive level entry career: IT, Merchandise, HR, Logistics, finance, marketing, retail management and Quality assurance. The Edcon Group also has an casual position recruitment programme which allows the company to identify developmental training critical to the organisation, which creates room for progression whereby the casual employees could to move to permanent employment.

Edgars has been ‘first' for its customers ever since: the first mail-order catalogue, first South African department store to win international recognition in store design, first stand-alone cosmetics store and first to offer many international and national clothing, accessories and cosmetics brands under one roof. Edcon was the first clothing retailer to use barcodes to make checking out easier for customers and first to market a range of financial services insurance products to suit its customers.