Down to the wire at Choppies, as cash crisis builds
Friday, August 16, 2019
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Shoppers at Choppies.
Apart from a handful of insiders, no one has details on Choppies’ financial situation. The pan-African grocer’s books have been unopened for scrutiny since last year when the group posted its results for the half year ended December 2017.
Since that day, July 13, 2018, the group’s shareholders have been in the dark on the value of their investments, as Choppies has repeatedly failed to produce audited results.
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