industry retail founded 1916 founder gus ackerman headquarters parow cape town south africa number of locations 485 1 area served southern africa key people sean cardinaal md products clothing clothing accessories footwear homeware revenue r 5 billion 2012 2 number of employees 3 622 3 parent pepkor website 1 ackermans is a south african chain of clothing retail stores . founded in 1916 in wynberg cape town ackermans has over 450 stores across southern africa including in namibia and botswana 4 and is headquartered in cape town . in 2015 ackermans is rated the second best clothing store by the south african consumer satisfaction index . 5 history edit gus ackerman opened the first ackermans store in 1916 in wynberg cape town . ackermans was sold to greatermans in 1960 only to be sold again towards the end of the 1970s to edgars . in 1984 pepkor acquired ackermans and its 34 stores . since then ackermans has experienced exceptional growth and in the year 2000 it had over 200 outlets across the southern africa region . 2 references edit ackermans . pepkor . retrieved 2015 09 23 . a b the story of ackermans permanent dead link retrieved 21 july 2012 pepkor.co.za ackermans profile retrieved 21 july 2010 ackermans top value fashion for ladies kids and men . ackermans.co.za . best and worst clothing stores in south africa . businesstech.co.za . retrieved 2015 12 05 . this south african corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ackermans & oldid 742392534 categories companies based in cape townretail companies established in 1916retail companies of south africadiscount storesclothing retailerssouth african brandssouth african company stubshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2016articles with permanently dead external linksall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 12 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view