Zimbabwe Insider - Part 1732

  • Zimre comes to the market

    The Zimbabwe Reinsurance Corporation (Zimre), which dominates the reinsurance business in the country, although there are six other operators in the country, is coming on...

  • Schweppes posts good results

    Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited, which is still assessing the impact of the global sale of Schweppes brands to Coca Cola outside the United States, France and...

  • How Long Will Chakaodza Last?

    Watching Herald editor Bornwell Chakaodza make a spectacle of himself during the televised interview of President Mugabe on the eve of his 75th birthday, those...

  • Hunyani profits up 39 percent

    Packaging giant, Hunyani Holdings, saw its earnings attributable to shareholders increase by 39 percent from $84.3 million for the year ending October 1997 to $117.1...

  • Rio Tinto quadruples its profit

    Mining group Rio Tinto Zimbabwe’s net profit nearly quadrupled from $57.8 million in 1997 to $208.2 million last year, largely because of the devaluation of...

  • Radar in 125% profit increase

    Bulawayo-based Radar Holdings saw its profit available for distribution increase by 125 percent from $7.7 million in the six months to December 1997 to $17.3...

  • Fridgemaster to quit Zimbabwe!

    FridgeMaster, which came into Zimbabwe a few years ago with a bang, is now planning to quit because “rampant inflation in Zimbabwe has significantly diminished...

  • Barclays more than doubles profit

    Zimbabwe has to rebuild investor confidence to address the country’s socio-economic problems and one of the ways to do so is to establish a continuing...

  • Clan recovers

    Transport group, Clan Holdings, in what is says was one of the most difficult years in the recent history of the company, saw its earnings...

  • MacMed still on growth path

    MacMed, the leading supplier of medical, surgical supplies, services and equipment to the medical industry, which was only listed in July last year has posted...