{"id":61989,"date":"2014-11-04T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=61989"},"modified":"2014-11-04T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T12:24:00","slug":"edgars-begins-operations-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=61989","title":{"rendered":"Edgars begins operations in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s clothing retailer Edgars has begun operations in Ghana.<br \/>\nEdgars first outlet is located in the West Hills Mall.<br \/>\nThe mall opened for operations last week.<br \/>\nEdgars parent company Edcon, early this year announced it will open stores in Ghana and Nigeria this year.<br \/>\nIts CEO J\u00fcrgen Schreiber said &#8216;This (Africa) remains an exciting opportunity going forward. We normally go into a new country with Jet. In Zambia though, we went in with Edgars too \u2014 it\u2019s working well. In the second half, we\u2019ll go into Ghana with both Edgars and Jet, because the market is quite strong. In Nigeria we\u2019ll take a discount approach and not an Edgars one at this point,&#8221;<br \/>\nEdcon which is the largest clothing retailer in South Africa operates in 154 stores across Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabawe.<br \/>\nBy: Vivian Kai Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s clothing retailer Edgars has begun operations in Ghana. Edgars first outlet is located in the West Hills Mall. The mall opened for operations last week. Edgars parent company Edcon, early this year announced it will open stores in Ghana and Nigeria this year. Its CEO J\u00fcrgen Schreiber said &#8216;This (Africa) remains an exciting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,4],"class_list":["post-61989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}