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Tiger Brands flags reduced consumer demand in January
But says it’s too soon to know whether this indicates that even more challenging times lie ahead. 00:01
The strong start to its financial year has been diluted by particularly poor performance at the start of the calendar year. Image: Moneyweb
Despite reporting a 12.1% increase in revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended December 31, 2020, listed fast-moving consumer goods giant Tiger Brands says the âstrong startâ to its financial year has been âdiluted by a particularly poor performance for the month of January 2021â.
The group, which owns brands such as Tiger Oats, Albany Bread and Tastic Rice, put out a voluntary trading update (for the four months to the end of January) and a trading statement for its upcoming half-year ending March 31 on Wednesday.
Transformation goals set by South African stone and pome fruit producers
Members of the South African stone and pome fruit industry have made a collective pledge, along with other South African fruit organisations, to set ambitious agri-transformation goals that will bring the industry together.
Hortgro, the organisation which represents South Africa’s stone and pome fruit growers, develops the plum, peach, nectarine, apple and pear categories in the UK through their integrated marketing initiative, which is now in its 13th year.
At the end of October 2020, representatives from Hortgro Pome, Stone and the DFDC (South Africa’s first black fruit producer organisation) came together with the aim to align the industry strategy and to develop “an implementable, measurable, and future-focused transformation strategy and blueprint for the DFI that is equitable, fair and just for all”.