Clicks Group

Clicks Group is a healthcare retail and supply group which is listed in the Food and Drug Retailers sector on the JSE.

Clicks was conceived as a drugstore in 1968 but legislation at the time prevented corporate ownership of pharmacies in South Africa. This meant that Clicks operated as a drugstore without drugs until legislation was changed in 2003 to allow corporate pharmacy ownership, and the first Clicks pharmacy opened in 2004.

United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD) was acquired by the group in January 2003 to provide the distribution capability for the group’s integrated healthcare strategy.

Over the past decade the group has grown into a leader in the healthcare market where Clicks has an 18.3% share of the retail pharmacy market and UPD a 25.2% share of the private pharmaceutical market.

Clicks has been independently rated as the country’s leading health and beauty retailer for six consecutive years in the annual The Times/Sowetan Retail Awards.

Clicks Group qualified for inclusion in the JSE Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index for the fifth time in 2014. Qualification for the Index is based on an independent assessment of social, environmental, climate change and corporate governance practices. The group met all the social and governance related sustainability core indicators, and achieved best practice for environmental sustainability. The SRI Index is recognised as the benchmark for sustainability practices among listed companies in South Africa.

Contact Details

Cnr. Searle and Pontac Streets

PO Box 5142, Cape Town 8000, South Africa

Tel: +27 21 460 1911