Posts by Charles Rukuni

Furniture retail group Pelhams had mixed fortunes during the year ended March. It had a buoyant first quarter, followed by a subdued second quarter, a big spend third quarter which…

Though it says its operating profits are dominated by Agriflora, its Zambian horticulture export business whose earnings are concentrated in the second half of the year, TZI still managed an…

Newspapers in Zimbabwe are either reducing their sizes or their circulations are shrinking while declining incomes are forcing people to use less toilet tissue. This is what the half-year report…

Horticultural group, Ariston Holdings, made double the profit it made for the entire year ending September last year in the first six months of its current financial year. It made…

Interfresh, another horticultural company, had an excellent first half ending June with sales and net profit double that for the full year ending December. And it says it usually has…

The half-year report to March for Powerspeed Electrical is full of contradictions. It says trading conditions continued to worsen. Demand for all products remained soft. Volumes traded were no greater…

Milling company, CFI Holdings, which also operates a chain of retail stores and is probably the country's biggest poultry producer could be heading for an exceptional year. According to its…

Portland Holdings, the Zimbabwean subsidiary of Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) had an operating loss of R9.6 million ( about $1 billion at the official exchange rate) during the six moths…

Milk supplies to Dairibord Zimbabwe were down by 27 percent during the first half of this year but net profit shot up by 612 percent from $445 million to $3.2…

Pharmaceutical company CAPS Holdings is now out of the doldrums. It made a net profit of $2 billion in the first half of this year, a turn around from a…