The Insider

The current shortage of sugar is due to smuggling and parallel market sales where it is being sold at up to three times the government controlled price. ZSR Corporation says…

Despite the crippling drought which has affected half the country's population, National Foods, one of the biggest milling companies in the country, says its sales volumes for the first half…

Ashanti Gold earned US$58.8 million in the first nine months of this year, up from US$37.6 million though gold sales were down from 1.25 million ounces to 1.22 million ounces.…

Tractive Power Holdings had an excellent year with sales of parts and service being the driving force. The company, which was previously part of Astra Holdings saw its turnover increase…

While most companies are mourning about the difficult trading conditions, Beverley Building Society says its operating conditions returned to near normality during the year ended June. It realised a net…

Century Holdings had an excellent year ending September with net profit increasing more than five-fold from $76 million to $440.2 million but it is only releasing its audited results in…

Clothing retail chain Truworths capitalised on the consumptive spending that has gripped the country to record a net profit of $537.7 million, a 419 percent increase over last year when…

Bulawayo-based Haddon and Sly, which has now been taken over by Barbican Holdings, made a profit of nearly $4 million in the first half of this year and sales for…

About 212 000 tonnes of wheat is expected this season and 68 000 tonnes of this had already been delivered to the Grain Marketing Board by early October. Wheat deliveries…

Flue-cured tobacco seed sales have dropped by 19 percent from 352kg last year to 295 kg. The Zimbabwe Tobacco Association estimates that a total of 41 300 ha, about 50…