{"id":19785,"date":"2026-11-05T02:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T02:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=19785"},"modified":"2026-11-05T02:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T02:49:03","slug":"back-from-the-brink-sean-summers-on-saving-pick-n-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=19785","title":{"rendered":"Back from the brink: Sean Summers on saving Pick n Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, Pick n Pay was running out of road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sean Summers had returned as CEO, but within three months the retailer had breached its covenants and exhausted all its available facilities.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Today, a stand-off with unions has been resolved without retrenchments, customers are gradually returning, and a successor has been named.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<\/p>\n<p>Pick n Pay appoints former Woolies Food boss as CEO-designate<br \/>\n\u2018We\u2019re winning back customers one at a time\u2019 \u2013 Pick n Pay\u2019s Sean Summers<\/p>\n<p>This week on The Executive Exchange, Summers tells Bronwyn Nielsen what it took to bring a South African retail institution back from the brink.<\/p>\n<p>He discusses the handshake deal for Boxer, the \u201curban legend\u201d he had to confront, and why every CEO now needs to know their journalist (KYJ).<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Pick n Pay share price\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For previous episodes of The Executive Exchange,\u00a0click here\u00a0or view on MoneywebTV on our\u00a0YouTube channel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        #brink #Sean #Summers #saving #Pick #Pay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, Pick n Pay was running out of road. Sean Summers had returned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3867,1426,26,239,1872,15858],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}