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Equipment

Emerging exporter focuses on investing locally

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Agricultural equipment supplier Agro Tractor House reports that import tariffs are too high and plans on investing more in manufacturing locally, on a small scale, and increasing its sales to the South African market. “There will be a 60%...

By: Eleanor Seggie

15 Jan 10

DEVELOPMENT FINANCE

Land Bank teams up with Masisizane to grow agriculture sector

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Old Mutual’s Masisizane development finance fund and the Land Bank on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate their efforts to ensure growth in the agricultural sector and to create sustainable jobs, particularly in...

By: Chanel Pringle

18 Nov 09

DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIAL

Barloworld expects ‘another challenging year' in 2010

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Diversified industrial group Barloworld, which reported a 25% drop in operating profit to R1,9-billion for the year to September 30, 2009, said on Monday that it expected 2010 to be "another challenging year". Group revenue declined by 10% to...

By: Terence Creamer

16 Nov 09

POULTRY PRODUCTION

Poultry firm invests R70m in processing plant, support services

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Poultry producer Sovereign Foods, formally known as Rocklands Poultry, has made a multimillion rands investment in its processing plant and support services, creating the capacity to process up to 60-million birds a year, almost doubling the...

By: Darren Parker

06 Nov 09

FARMING EQUIPMENT

Global farm equipment maker eyeing Africa’s  ‘significant potential’

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Global agricultural equipment manufacturer and distributor Agco is to expand its business into Africa, which it sees as having significant potential for growth in the agricultural sector, Agco chairperson, president and CEO Martin Richenhagen told...

By: Darren Parker

11 Sep 09

FINANCIAL RESULTS

Afgri lifts FY profit on near-record maize crop, improved environment

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A strong agricultural year in South Africa led to JSE-listed agricultural services group Afgri increasing its net profit for the year ended June 30, 2009, to R354-million, up 18% on the R299-million in net profit achieved in the 16 months ended...

By: Chanel Pringle

02 Sep 09

CAPITAL EQUIPMENT

Eqstra posts R45m profit, expects earnings growth in 2010

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Integrated leasing and capital equipment group Eqstra Holdings on Wednesday reported profit of R45-million for its first full trading year as a listed company. Basic earnings and headline earnings a share for the year ended June were 16,6c and...

By: Esmarie Swanepoel

26 Aug 09

Topics in these articles

City	Company	Continent	Country
Johannesburg Natal	Agro International Agro Tractor House Agro Tractor Kenya RM Partel Land Bank Masisizane Old Mutual Barloworld Caterpillar Sovereign Foods Stork Food Systems Agco Afgri Eqstra Holdings Lonmin	Africa Europe	Botswana Kenya South Africa Tanzania Uganda Australia Brazil France Italy United States Lesotho
Facility	Industry Term	Person	Natural Feature
Johannesburg-based Plant Chicken Barn Uitenhage Factory	Agricultural Equipment Supplier Equipment Supplier Local Suppliers Bank Development Finance Fund Development Finance Funds Industrial Group Oil-seed Crushing Poultry Producer Wireless Network Agricultural Equipment Manufacturer Food Food Aid Food Security Agricultural Services Food Businesses Services Group Capital Equipment Capital Equipment Group Contract Mining Division Finance Opencast Mining Platinum Mining Contracts Platinum Mining Sectors Purchase Heavy Equipment “total Solutions	Virginia Morule Andrew Makenete Charmaine Groves Phakamani Hadebe Clive Thomson Blaine Van Rensburg Hope Alive Mike Davis Range Susan Lascelles Gary Collar Martin Richenhagen Walter Hill	Eastern Cape
Product	Province Or State	Region
Ricoh Caplio R40 Digital Camera Directv R16 Video Recorder	Eastern Cape	Middle East