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Profile’s Stock Exchange Handbook: 2020 – Issue 1 JSE – CHO

Choppies Enterprises Ltd. CALENDAR Expected Status
Next Interim Results Dec 2019 Un con firmed
CHO
Next Final Results Mar 2020 Un con firmed
Annual General Meeting Dec 2020 Un con firmed
CAPITAL STRUCTURE AUTHORISED ISSUED
CHP Ords no par value - 1 303 628 341
SUS PENDED COM PANY DISTRIBUTIONS [BWPc]
ISIN: BW0000001072 SHORT: CHOPPIES CODE: CHP Ords no par value Ldt Pay Amt
REG NO: 2004/1681 FOUNDED: 1986 LISTED: 2015
Final No 3 17 Oct 17 21 Nov 17 2.15
Final No 2 18 Oct 16 21 Nov 16 2.83
NATURE OF BUSINESS: Final No 1 16 Oct 15 9 Nov 15 4.88
Botswana-based Choppies is an in vest ment holding company LIQUIDITY: Dec19 Ave 2m shares p.w., R1.7m(9.6% p.a.)
operating in the retail sector across sub-Saharan Africa.
Dual-listed on the BSE and JSE, its op er a tions are food and FOOR 40 Week MA CHOPPIES
general mer chandise retailing as well as financial services 753
trans ac tions supported by cen tral ised dis tri bu tion channels,
616
through dis tri bu tion centres and lo gis ti cal support assets in
Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Zambia. 478
SECTOR: Consumer Srvcs—Retail—Food&Drug—Food 340
MAJOR ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS as at 30 Jun 2017
Ramachandran Ottapathu 19.50% 202
Farouk Ismail 14.75%
Allan Gray 11.87% 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 64
FINANCIAL STATISTICS
(Amts in BWP’000) Jun 18 Jun 17 Jun 16 Jun 15 Recent Announcements
Final Final(rst) Final(rst) Final Choppies final results June 2018 - Friday, 13 December 2019:
Turnover 10 791 295 8 709 308 7 369 005 5 945 234 Revenue for the year increased to BWP10.791 billion (2017:
Op Inc - 316 221 - 36 153 148 614 267 568 BWP8.709 billion), gross profit climbed to BWP2.062 billion
NetIntPd(Rcvd) 75 159 43 621 21 214 24 342 (2017: BWP1.844 billion), loss for the period at trib ut able to
Tax 53 129 90 032 22 495 45 988 owners of the company widened to BWP418.1 million (2017
Minority Int - 26 434 - 10 186 - 4 622 - 5 588
Att Inc - 418 075 - 159 620 109 527 202 826 loss of BWP159.6 million), while headline loss per share came
TotCompIncLoss - 445 623 - 157 449 85 044 181 170 in at BWP6.84 thebe per share (2017: headline earnings of
Hline Erngs-CO - 89 232 - 93 636 200 541 BWP0.75 thebe per share).
Fixed Ass 1 275 628 1 157 644 1 076 997 746 050 Dividend
Inv & Loans 107 392 45 633 95 560 30 165 The Board has con sid ered it not prudent to declare a dividend for
Def Tax Asset 5 795 35 925 46 512 19 572 the period under review.
Tot Curr Ass 1 444 922 1 578 031 1 100 174 1 149 383 Monday, 09 December 2019: Shareholders are referred to the
Ord SH Int 602 322 1 052 190 1 234 834 1 449 503 various an nounce ments regarding the delay in the pub li ca tion
Minority Int - 26 058 - 17 825 - 6 511 2 035 of the Company’s financial results for the year ended 30 June
LT Liab 823 939 666 588 458 140 312 429
Tot Curr Liab 1 612 517 1 339 752 927 256 654 729 2018 and the related cau tion ary state ments, the last of which
was published on 06 November 2019.
PER SHARE STATISTICS (cents per share) Choppies advised share hold ers that the Company is still pro -
EPS (ZARc) - 43.62 - 16.32 11.62 23.44
HEPS-C (ZARc) - 9.30 0.99 9.93 23.18 gressing the matters referred to in the announcements
Pct chng p.a. - 1 039.4 - 90.0 - 57.2 - regarding the delay in the pub li ca tion of the financial results for
DPS (ZARc) - 2.83 3.75 6.32 the year ended 30 June 2018 and the related matters addressed
Pct chng p.a. - 100.0 - 24.5 - 40.7 - in the update to share hold ers published on 5 March 2019,21
NAV PS (ZARc) 62.83 104.15 128.10 135.79 May 2019,14 August 2019 and 16 October 2019.
3 Yr Beta 0.70 - - - Per the announcement published on 1 November 2018, the
Price High 400 543 735 1 195 trading of the Company shares on both the Botswana Stock
Price Low 201 100 471 505 Exchange (“BSE”) and Jo han nes burg Stock Exchange (“JSE”)
Price Prd End 249 291 499 615 remains suspended until the Company complies with the BSE
RATIOS
Ret on SH Fnd - 77.14 - 16.42 8.54 13.59 listing re quire ments or until further notice.
Ret On Tot Ass - 13.81 - 2.83 5.49 12.50 Tuesday, 03 December 2019: Share hold ers are referred to the Cau -
Oper Pft Mgn - 2.93 - 0.42 2.02 4.50 tion ary An nounce ment published on XNews and SENS on 18
D:E 1.61 0.44 0.35 0.24 November 2019 (“the Cautionary”) and the Announcement
Int Cover n/a n/a 7.01 10.99 published on XNews and SENS on 26 November 2019 (“the An -
Current Ratio 0.90 1.18 1.19 1.76 nounce ment”). Share hold ers are advised that on 22 November
Div Cover - - 5.77 3.10 3.72 2019, the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries,
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 15 956
DIRECTORS: Haward C J (ne), Choppies Su per mar kets SA (Pty) Ltd., Choppies Ware hous ing
Corea U (Acting Chair, ne), SA (Pty) Ltd., Choppies Logistics (Pty) Ltd. and Motopi
Sanooj V (Acting CFO), Ottapathu R Holdings S A (Pty) Ltd., (collectively the SA Subsidiaries)
(Group CE, Bots), Ismail F
E (Vice Chair, ne, Bots) entered into agree ments with Kind In vest ments (Pty) Ltd. (the
POSTAL ADDRESS: Private Bag 00278, Purchaser) in terms of which the Purchaser will purchase all the
Gaborone, Botswana issued shares held by the Company and the loan accounts
EMAIL: info@choppies.co.za
WEBSITE: choppies.co.za/Investor-Portal advanced by the Company to each of the Subsidiaries (the
TELE PHONE: 00267-318-6657 Scan the QR code to Disposal).
FAX: 00267-318-6656 visit our Investor
COMPANY SECRETARY: Corporate Services (Pty) Centre
Ltd.
TRANSFER SECRETARY: Grant Thornton Business Services (Pty) Ltd.
SPONSOR: Rand Merchant Bank (A division of FirstRand Bank Ltd.)
BANKERS: Absa Bank of South Africa Ltd., Bank of Baroda (Botswana) Ltd.,
Barclays Bank of Botswana Ltd., Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe, Capital Bank
Botswana Ltd., First National Bank Botswana Ltd., First National Bank Ltd.
(South Africa), Nedbank Ltd., Stanbic Bank Botswana Ltd., Standard Bank
Ltd., Standard Chartered Bank Botswana
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