Groceries a family affair for new CEO

Spar ’s Botten finds retail ‘dynamic, exciting and fun’

07 March 2021 - 00:06 By NICK WILSON

For Spar's new CEO, Brett Botten, the passion for food retailing runs in the family, with his mother having worked for more than 20 years for rival Pick n Pay while he was growing up in the Eastern Cape town of Kariega (formerly Uitenhage)...

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