Case Study Kloppers Family Business
Case Study Kloppers Family Business
Case Study Kloppers Family Business
Group members:
Jenifer Frenita
Naila N. S. Komara
Ng Kara Sevania
Daniel Kenneth Cruz
Gian Levin S. Batac
Kloppers - Family business with over 40 years of existence. A discount retail family
business in Bloemfontein. Focusing on the sales of electrical appliances, but also
include sports apparel, clothing, and hardware in their product ranges.
● Studied different areas but chose to work in the business (two accountants,
lawyer, social worker, agriculture and a medical doctor)
● Six brothers working together toward a common goal
● Children will start in junior positions, learning the business before they will be
allowed into managerial positions.
After the sale of the family business to the Pepcor group, some of the Kloppers sons
who had at that stage been involved in the business reverted back to their professions,
while others continued to operate the small unrelated motorcycle store that they started
a few years earlier. – However, after a year the sons decided to start a new discount
retail store, which they called “Juniors”.
- Reverted back to their professions
- Start a new discount retail store–Juniors
“From start-up to being sold to a corporate group, and then was revived again by the
second generation of children”
Takeaways