Month: September 2016

BOTSWANA – Choppies Enterprises — the leading supermarket grocery retailer in Botswana — continued with its expansion strategy into the rest of Africa in the year to end-June, but the moves into new territories came with a more than 50% cost to the company’s earnings.

BOTSWANA – Choppies Enterprises — the leading supermarket grocery retailer in Botswana — continued with its expansion strategy into the rest of Africa in the year to end-June, but the moves into new territories came with a more than 50% cost to the company’s earnings.

SOUTH AFRICA –  SA Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was poised to sell fast-food company McDonald’s SA to MSA Holdings, a McDonald’s subsidiary operating in the Middle East, should the transaction be completed successfully, McDonald’s SA CE Greg Solomon said yesterday.

SOUTH AFRICA –  SA Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was poised to sell fast-food company McDonald’s SA to MSA Holdings, a McDonald’s subsidiary operating in the Middle East, should the transaction be completed successfully, McDonald’s SA CE Greg Solomon said yesterday.

SOUTH AFRICA – The Department of Agriculture missed a court deadline to determine if poultry producers can sell down current stocks of brined chicken before regulations that cap the amount of the liquid in birds start next month.

SOUTH AFRICA – The Department of Agriculture missed a court deadline to determine if poultry producers can sell down current stocks of brined chicken before regulations that cap the amount of the liquid in birds start next month.

SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa will probably raise the estimate for wheat production this season 1.2% as recent rainfalls improve yields and crop conditions, a survey showed.

KENYA – Kenya will not stop importing maize from Uganda despite concerns from farmers that the imported commodity is eating into their market share, the Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett has said.