Tiger Brands revises its profit warning
The group said on Friday headline earnings per share would fall by between 25% and 30%
Tiger Brands, which is recovering from a food contamination scandal, said on Friday its profit decline in the year to end-September would not be as severe as it previously warned. Headline earnings per share would fall by 25%-30%, a revision from the 22%-37% range it had previously forecast. The announcement lifted the company’s shares 0.3% higher to a close of R280.86. The stock has slipped about 40% since reaching highs of more than R470 in late January, months before it said a large-scale recall of cold meat products, linked to a deadly outbreak of listeria, had cost it as much as R365m. Tiger Brands reopened its Enterprise meat canning operation in September and its value-added meat facility in Germiston in October. Besides the recall and suspension of these operations, the group in August warned profits would fall due to the “challenging consumer and competitive environment” which had dented volumes and prices. It was also grappling with significant cost increases because of th...
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