Sector: Consumer Goods
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Astral Foods Limited (JSE:ARL) is the largest integrated poultry producer in South Africa.
Group activities
Astral is a leading Southern African integrated poultry producer. Key activities comprise manufacturing of animal feeds, broiler genetics, production and sale of day-old chicks and hatching eggs, breeder and broiler production, abattoir and further processing operations and sales and distribution of various key poultry brands.
Integrated broiler operations
The group has four fully integrated broiler production, processing, distribution, sales and marketing operations with a combined processing capacity of over 5 million processed broilers per week.
County Fair, Goldi and Mountain Valley market and distribute a full range of value added products comprising frozen reformed crumbed and ready-to-eat chicken products.County Fair (Western Cape), Festive (Olifantsfontein) and Mountain Valley (Camperdown) market and distribute a full range of fresh and frozen poultry products whereas Goldi (Standerton) primarily manufactures individually quick frozen (“IQF”) products.
Day-old broiler and hatching egg supplier
National Chicks has operations in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Swaziland and conducts business as a day-old chick and hatching egg supplier to the group's integrated broiler operations and the independent non-integrated broiler producers in South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana and Mozambique. National Chicks supplies small hatcheries in Africa with fertile eggs and has a technical team servicing its customer base.
Broiler genetics
Ross Poultry Breeders situated in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, is the sole distributor and supplier of Ross 308 parent breeding stock to the South African broiler industry. The company has a technical agreement with Aviagen Limited, a multi-national company that holds the worldwide proprietary rights to the “Ross” brand. The company has entered into an agreement with Aviagen for the exclusive South African rights to the International Ross 308 broiler/breeder that is world renowned for its superior broiler and breeder performance.
Animal feed
The South African operations consist of mills located in Standerton, Randfontein, Delmas, Paarl, Port Elizabeth, Pietermaritzburg and Ladismith.
These seven strategically placed feed mills are well equipped to produce and distribute a wide range of specialised products for all commercially farmed animal species. The other African operations consist of a feed mill in Lusaka (Zambia) and an 80% shareholding in a mill in Maputo (Mozambique).
Laboratory services genetics
Central Analytical Laboratories (CAL) analyses animal feed and water samples for the group's own requirements and for the agricultural sector in South Africa.
Strategic focus genetics
To be the best cost integrated poultry producer in selected African countries.
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South African business leaders are becoming frustrated with the pace of reform under President Cyril Ramaphosa. His cabinet choices and spending pledges haven’t helped.
2019-07-10 06:10 +02:00
South Africa`s biggest poultry producer Astral Foods swung to a full-year loss on Monday, as an ongoing electricity crisis and the country`s worst bird flu outbreak cost the company 2 billion rand ($108.9 million).
2023-11-20Grocery retailer SPAR Group is exploring potentially importing eggs from several southern African countries as South Africa`s worst outbreak of avian flu hits egg supplies and threatens the supply of chicken meat.
2023-10-05South African grocery retailers Woolworths and Pick n Pay are limiting the amount of eggs shoppers can buy as the country`s worst outbreak of avian flu hits table egg supplies and threatens the supply of chicken meat.
2023-10-04South Africa`s RCL Foods said on Thursday its poultry unit Rainbow has culled 410,000 chickens due to the country`s worst outbreak of avian flu, heightening fears of chicken meat and egg shortages.
2023-09-28
South African poultry producer Quantum Foods on Friday said nearly 2 million chickens worth 106 million rand ($5.63 million) have been killed by a bird flu outbreak, increasing fears of a table egg and meat shortage.
2023-09-22
Top producer Astral flags loss as power cuts add $100 mln costs
2023-09-21
Astral Foods expects a 90% plunge in mid-year profit, the poultry processor said on Wednesday, citing rolling power cuts in South Africa that have hit production and hiked costs.
2023-01-25
South Africa`s Astral Foods Limited said on Monday its full-year profits plunged by 55% after higher feed costs hit its poultry division, a decline it first warned about in October.
2019-11-18
South Africa`s Astral Foods Ltd said on Monday full-year profit surged 88 percent, boosted by upbeat volumes and higher selling prices in its poultry business.
2018-11-19
