Africa’s largest packaging company Nampak has halted its strategy of seeking growth in the rest of Africa after Covid-19 and an oil price collapse hit its operations in Angola and Nigeria.
The group is cutting staff, considering disposing of assets, and will require operations in African markets to pay their own way, after writing down its businesses by an amount that is almost four times its market capitalisation in its year to end-March...
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