2007 Annual Report

Fact Sheet

 

Beef & Feedlot

  • Largest meat company in Zambia slaughtering 60 000 cattle per annum

  • Largest feedlotter of quality beef in Zambia feedlotting 12 000 grainfed cattle per annum

  • 8 abattoirs strategically located around Zambia

 

Milk & Milk Processing

  • State of the art dairy milking 850 cows per day producing an average of 20 thousand litres of milk per day

  • Milk pasteurised and homogenised in modern milk processing plant • Further value added in producing drinking yoghurt, eating yoghurt,  cheese, butter and cream

  • Cultured dairy product line commissioned during 2007; capacity to process 16 000 litres of value added products per day

 

Chicken & Egg

  • Largest chicken producer processing 3.5 million chickens per annum

  • Major egg producer currently producing 20 million eggs per annum

  • Zambia’s only national egg supplier

 

 

 

 

Farming

  • One of the largest cropping operations in Africa

  • Producing maize, soya, wheat and lucerne

  • 2 700 hectares under irrigation

  • 1 500 hectares of dry land crops

  • Harvested 40 000 tons of grain during 2007

  • Silo storage capacity of 25 000 tons

 

Mill & Bakery

  • State of the art wheat mill due to be commissioned in November 2007

  • Capacity to mill 3 000 tons of wheat per month

  • State of the art bakery commissioned during May 2007

  • Capacity to bake 30 000 loaves per day

 

 

 

 

Leather & Shoes

  • Currently processes 80 000 hides per annum through tannery

  • Exports to South Africa, Europe, and the Far East, valued at US$1.4

  • million per annum

  • Tannery capacity recently increased from 70 000 to 120 000 hides

  • per annum

  • Major producer of industrial footwear for the local and regional

  • markets

 

Stock Feed

  • Produces 120 tons of stock feed per day in own stock feed plant

  • Self sufficient in stock feed requirements

  • Due to commission new stock feed plant to increase capacity during 2008

 

Transport & Distribution

  • One of the largest trucking and transport fleets in Zambia in excess

  • of 200 units

  • Own modern workshop to service and maintain fleet

Butchery Outlets

  • Sells high quality beef, chicken, milk, eggs, processed meat and bread

  • in 92 outlets throughout Zambia and West Africa

  • In store butcheries in Shoprite supermarkets in Zambia, Nigeria and Ghana

Fast Food Outlets

  • Fast growing popular fast food chain selling fried chicken and chips

  • 7 Zamchick Inns with more planned for

 

 

     

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