Zambeef Products PLC Results of AGM & EGM and Board changes (3227Y)
December 30 2019 - 11:57AM
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Zambeef Products PLC
30 December 2019
30 December 2019
Zambeef Products plc
("Zambeef" or the "Group")
Results of Annual General Meeting & Extraordinary General
Meeting and Board changes
Zambeef (AIM: ZAM), the fully integrated cold chain foods and
retail business, with operations in Zambia, Nigeria and Ghana,
announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting, held in
Lusaka today, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly
passed.
Zambeef is further pleased to announce that all resolutions put
to Shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company
also held today in Lusaka, to approve the transaction involving the
disposal by Zambeef of its Sinazongwe Farm to Chenguang Biotech
(Zambia) Agri-Dev Limited for USD10 million (as first announced on
17 September 2019), were duly passed. Completion of the transaction
remains subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the remaining
conditions as stated in the Circular distributed to shareholders on
5 December 2019. Further updates will be provided as and when
appropriate.
Directors Retirements and Appointments
The Group also announces that, as previously reported, its
Chairman Dr. Jacob Mwanza and its Chief Executive Officer, Mr
Francis Grogan, will retire from the Group effective 1 January
2020. Dr Mwanza and Mr Grogan have been with the Company since 2002
and 1994, respectively, and the Board has greatly appreciated the
experience and support they have contributed to the development of
the Group. The Board would like to express its sincere gratitude to
Dr. Mwanza and Mr. Grogan for their valuable contributions as
Directors of the Company during their tenure of office.
As part of the resolutions put to shareholders today at the AGM,
the appointments of Mr Michael Mundashi as incoming Chairman, Mr
Walter Roodt as incoming Chief Executive Officer and Ms Faith
Mukutu as Chief Financial Officer were all unanimously
approved.
For further information, please contact:
Zambeef Products plc Tel: +260 (0) 211 369003
Francis Grogan, Chief Executive Officer
Walter Roodt, Incoming Chief Executive
Officer
Faith Mukutu, Chief Financial Officer
Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Tel: +44 (0) 20 7409
& Financial Adviser) 3494
James Spinney
Ritchie Balmer
finnCap (Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7220
0500
Chris Raggett
Powerscourt Tel: +44 (0)20 7250
1446
Nick Dibden
Bethany Johannsen
Notes to Editors
The Zambeef Group is one of the largest integrated cold chain
food producers in Zambia, involved in the production, processing,
distribution and retailing of beef, chicken, pork, milk, eggs,
dairy products, fish, flour and stock feed. The Group also has
large cereal row cropping operations (principally maize, soya beans
and wheat), with approximately 7,971 hectares of row crops under
irrigation, which are planted twice a year and a further 8,623
hectares of rain-fed/dry-land crops available for planting each
year.
Further information can be found on www.zambeefplc.com
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