Nampak

21 Feb 2024

Mageu and cartons are a match made in heaven

Businesses have to work harder than ever to ensure consumers choose their product over a competitor’s. This is as a result of today’s economic climate. Towards the business end of the year, the food and non-alcoholic beverages (NAB) inflation rate reached a four-month high of 9% in November but declined to 8.5% in December. Due...

13 Sep 2023

Cartons make for a fruitful choice for the fruit juice industry

South African businesses have been under a huge amount of pressure in 2023. Loadshedding has remained an ever-present spectre each day this year except for one, while inflation has only shown signs of cooling recently with a dip to 6.3% in May after a rapid rise for 13 months straight. The fruit juice industry is...

28 Sep 2020

South Africa must use safer packaging for traditional beer

BY: Raymond Dube – Nampak Liquid Cartons managing director  Traditional sorghum beer is woven into the rich history of South Africa but in the current context how can producers use appropriate packaging to ensure the beer that is sold is hygienic and safe to drink?  Since lockdown was implemented at the end of March 2020, South Africans from all...

21 Jun 2016

Nampak performs in challenging conditions

In June 2016, Nampak reported a solid 21 percent increase in adjusted headline earnings per share for the six months to March 2016, before foreign currency translation effects.

10 Dec 2015

Year of mixed fortunes for Nampak

Nampak, a leading African manufacturer of beverage, food and non-perishable packaging reported an increase in group revenue of 13 per cent. Its trading profit also increased 10 per cent, during a year of mixed fortunes to 30 September 2015.

09 Sep 2015

Glenn Fullerton joins Nampak

Nampak, a leading manufacturer of beverages, food and non-perishables packaging in Africa, has appointed Glenn Fullerton as the new CFO with effect from 1 September 2015.

01 Apr 2015

Nampak delivers on its strategic objectives

On 25 March 2015 Nampak announced a series of transactions to deliver on its strategic objective to unlock further value from its base business, as well as progress on its objective to accelerate growth in the rest of Africa.

13 Jan 2015

Strong results for Nampak

At the end of last year, Nampak Limited, Africa’s leading diversified packaging manufacturer, announced its results for the financial year to 30 September 2014. According to CEO André de Ruyter, the company had a strong 2014, ‘marked by continued delivery on our ambitious strategy to unlock further value from our base business and accelerate growth in the rest of Africa’. The contribution to trading profit of operations in the rest of Africa increased to 30 per cent from 26 per cent in 2013.