Retail anchors steady Sefalana results

Making waves: Group Finance Director, Mahomed Osman (left) and Group MD, Chauhan PIC: TSELE TSEBETSAME
Making waves: Group Finance Director, Mahomed Osman (left) and Group MD, Chauhan PIC: TSELE TSEBETSAME

Leading manufacturer and retailer, Sefalana Holdings, has reported a six percent jump in pretax full year profits to P155.7 million on stronger growth in its consumer goods division, continuing the steady performance seen in recent years.

Figures unveiled by group MD, Chandra Chauhan yesterday, indicated that the 40-year-old firm’s pretax profits had more than doubled in three years, while revenues were up 25 percent over the same period.

Sefalana’s wholly or partly owned divisions include consumer goods – a portfolio consisting of 28 wholesale stores and 16 Shoppers’ retail shops – Commercial Motors, Mechanised Farming, a manufacturing wing comprising Foods Botswana and Kgalagadi Soap Industries as well as a property portfolio locally and in Zambia.

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