{"id":141829,"date":"2016-10-31T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=141829"},"modified":"2016-10-31T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:03:20","slug":"cape-union-mart-acquires-childrens-clothing-retailer-keedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/141829\/cape-union-mart-acquires-childrens-clothing-retailer-keedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Union Mart acquires children\u2019s clothing retailer Keedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Union Mart Group says it has acquired Keedo, a South African designer and manufacturer of quality children\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Keedo adds 25 stores and a factory to Cape Union Mart Group\u2019s retail footprint of nearly 220 stores and their K-Way factory. The group now provides employment to approximately 3,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>While Keedo will be wholly owned by Cape Union Mart Group, the fourth generation family business privately owned by the Krawitz family, the chain will continue to operate independently under the stewardship of Nelia Annandale.<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Union Mart Group currently comprises four national retail chains. Cape Union Mart, is South Africa\u2019s leading retailer of outdoor equipment and apparel.\u00a0 Poetry, focusses on clothing, homeware and eclectic gifts for the modern woman. Old Khaki is aimed at casual wear for trendy young men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Tread &amp; Miller is the Group\u2019s youngest chain, focussing on urban footwear. The first Tread &amp; Miller store opened a year ago and has already grown into a 20 strong chain.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read this: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/141807\/major-sa-clothing-retailer-applies-for-business-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Major SA clothing retailer applies for business rescue<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Union Mart Group says it has acquired Keedo, a South African designer and manufacturer of quality children\u2019s clothing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":141831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,11121],"tags":[25,11653,11655],"class_list":["post-141829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance","tag-active","tag-cape-union-mart","tag-keedo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141833,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141829\/revisions\/141833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}