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ZAMBEEF CEO Nominated For Business Leadership Awards
Press Release
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – Zambeef Products Chief Executive Francis Grogan has been nominated for two prestigious regional business leadership awards.
Mr Grogan has been put forward as Business Leader of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year in the All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA) 2013 for the Southern Africa region, sponsored by CNBC Africa.
The All Africa Business Leaders Awards recognises and pays tribute to captains of industry across the continent that have made a vast difference to the companies, industries and communities they serve.
“It is the first time in the history of the All Africa Business Leaders Awards that Zambia has had finalists for the accolade,” said CNBC Africa Business Development Manager for Africa Debbie Baillie. “Francis is an inspiration to businessmen and women across Africa, and he and his team have grown Zambeef from humble beginnings into a household name that touches the lives of everyone in the country.”
Mr Grogan faces competition from other nominees across the region for the award, which will be announced in October in Johannesburg.
“It is indeed an honour to be among those nominated for this prominent award. I am humbled,” said Mr Grogan. “Zambeef is about teamwork and the efforts of all our managers and 5,500 employees who have worked to build Zambeef into the company it is today. It is nice to have that effort recognised by this nomination.”
Zambeef has its origins in 1991 when Mr Grogan and Zambian accountant Carl Irwin began building the company from a small butchery business into a ZMW 1.6 billion food processing and agribusiness conglomerate that is now listed on the London and Lusaka stock exchanges.
The farm’s total assets have grown more than six-fold from ZMW 266 million in 2008 to ZMW 1,616 million in 2012.
The company has a market capitalisation of ZMW 328 million on LuSE and US$71 million on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market (AIM) as of September 30, 2012.
Zambeef’s vision is to be the most accessible and affordable quality protein provider in the region. Its vertically integrated operation produces, processes and sells beef, chicken, pork, milk, dairy products, eggs, edible oils, stock feed, flour and bread. It has 90 shops and three wholesale outlets across Zambia.
The company grows approximately 8,350 hectares of maize, soya beans and wheat under irrigiation, with a further 8,650 hectares of rain-fed/dry-land crops available for planting each year.
It is also rolling out its West Africa expansion in Nigeria and Ghana, as well as developing a palm project in Zambia.
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Vernon Vj Demuta
July 17, 2013 at 10:35 am
award in embulming people.kikikiki
isaac
July 17, 2013 at 10:36 am
So what? who cares about his nomination whatever blah blah blah. Our mind and memories are still fresh regardless of the out come of those tests results.
iLLuMiNaTi
July 17, 2013 at 11:01 am
that shows how ****** critics end up politicking with empty brains….by following the direction of wind! learn to get to the bottom of anything before running your wide opened mouths like Mampi legs motherfuckers!
swine
July 18, 2013 at 1:49 pm
just check out your blog name…from the underworld, shame on you satanist!
Abena Fyalo
July 17, 2013 at 11:20 am
Who cares??? No more ZAMBEEF for me and my family, Period!
Ba game
July 17, 2013 at 11:51 am
zambeef’s vision is to be the most accessible affordable quality embulmers exparts in the region, nowander he has been awarded.
umuzedia
July 17, 2013 at 11:59 am
fyakwe ifyo. u think by awarding him, pipo will reverse their mind.BUFI. as for me and my family, no zambeef. He has been awarded bcoz has massively embalmed the Nation.
kalulumpunga
July 17, 2013 at 12:09 pm
aFTER ATULISHA IFITUMBI FYANAMA CHIKALA!
Sir Jeff
July 17, 2013 at 12:23 pm
Congratulations Grogan n Zambeef for that nomination. Its a great honour to Zambia n yo critics must be chocking with envy. M happy for you n may jehovah bless you
Embaulmer
July 17, 2013 at 12:37 pm
They deserve da award afta all they v bin feeding da nation till da scandal viva embaulmer abash detrators.
tonbolilo
July 17, 2013 at 12:59 pm
why did this reward wait until now when there is a problem about the viability of zambeef products.
She - Knows
July 17, 2013 at 1:21 pm
God knows what these fakaz have been feeding us since 1991. He can go to hell with his award. Sir Jeff ati honour to Zambia for feeding people with embalmed crap? For me nalileka ifamana ifya ma chemicals. To hell with Grogodile or whatever he calls himself and to hell with Zambeef!
zambian
July 17, 2013 at 1:31 pm
I buy meat iyakumasembe no more eating meat from “zamfools” period!
Dimma
July 17, 2013 at 6:41 pm
ha,ha, ha!!!
Gaddafi
July 17, 2013 at 1:32 pm
To Hell with that Award.
Be it you support him on not …. ” he embalmed us all …except for vegetereans who were embalmed thru Veg-Hungarian +++
Grog-ass Id**t!!
Narrant
July 17, 2013 at 3:10 pm
Must be a mistake somewhere. How can you reward the embalmer of the living?
Lozi Woman
July 17, 2013 at 3:45 pm
he wants to embalm the whole region now
Kennedy
July 17, 2013 at 3:59 pm
So you see that all multinationals become catails. Suddenly?
wiseman
July 17, 2013 at 4:19 pm
what award? CEO ZAMBEEF anyway they must joking. after feeding the nation to embalmed shit this guy is being awarded. THIS GUY IS A ****** CAPITALIST WHO WANT ACCUMULATE CAPITAL AT ALL COST. IN FACT THIS GUY SHOULD BE SERVING A SENTENCE INSTEADY OF BEING AWARDED BY THE SO CALLED CNBC.
pologoramu
July 17, 2013 at 4:23 pm
i would really love to be nominated in thse awards,,with passion
DIGGERS
July 17, 2013 at 4:47 pm
No more Zambeef in my life no matter how many awards the cEo will get,i rest my case.
Dragon Grog
July 17, 2013 at 4:47 pm
Ifyo mwalya ubwingi bamambaala bushe nafilingana na aromatic aldehyde? Leave me alone
2kiya
July 17, 2013 at 6:13 pm
Why award someone with such scandals. Who’s behind the Nomination and how much is involved. Wait til I get to state House
Jenny Samuels
July 17, 2013 at 6:31 pm
What rubbish! And what standard did they use. Is this how you reward someone who has misbehaved. Anyway I still do not buy embalmed meat so he can be nominated whatever, I lost faith in Zambeef, thanks to the Post.
Zotaya
July 17, 2013 at 6:54 pm
To hell with your award. No more zambeef products in my family, 99.5.% ZAMBIANS, NOMORE ZAMKILLERS. TUMANE AKAPI BANE, TO BRING THESE EMBULMERS TO ZERO. GO ZAMBIANS. @LEVY STADIUM.
Zambian Patriot
July 17, 2013 at 9:06 pm
This site never reports about the news like the famous w-atch-dog.
Rubbish PF puppet.
swine
July 18, 2013 at 1:56 pm
what the f**k are you doing here…go back to your so called watch imbwa with their opiniated reporting which retards like you find interesting!! As for me am contecnt with tumfweko!…we mbwa we!
sausage packer
July 17, 2013 at 11:16 pm
What award? Grogan is a corrupt useless fool. He has been embalming us since 1991 and you say he deserves an award? Whatever the results will come from south africa, we will not believe for we know how good he is at using his money to corrupt whoever.
zamkil
July 18, 2013 at 2:10 am
twali leka akale ukulya ifinama fyabo. . . . .nomba tubalila ama female workers
Muzyeche
July 18, 2013 at 7:01 am
Viva Ba muntu NO MORE ZAMBEEF PRODUCTS! ati he has been awarded ifyabupuba atase!
truth
July 18, 2013 at 7:42 am
i’ve to his house they even eat zambeef meat.they buy from kachema..
true story.
truth
July 18, 2013 at 7:43 am
i’ve been to his house they even eat zambeef meat.they buy from kachema..
true story.
Wanyafye FC 3 We & Them 6
July 18, 2013 at 10:47 am
I am sure the chief embalmer from Sancte Anne’s Fumes Pala has been nominated in the same category by the BLA BLA.
patricia musonda
July 18, 2013 at 10:47 am
as for me with my family no more zam mafi that grogan is a devil how can you be so heartless to feed as rubbish?pipo we must be careful lekeni bailile abene UKUCILA ALETUKOWESHA BURSTER AT NOMINATION OF BEING PROFFESSIONAL IN IMBALMING US.BAD LUCKY TO GROGAN
Wanyafye FC 3 We & Them 6
July 18, 2013 at 10:49 am
There are some awards where you can tell the organizers to include you, at a fee, of course.
swine
July 18, 2013 at 1:58 pm
into a household name that touches the lives of everyone in the country.”
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the statement above is very true, the muther ****** has touched and embalmed many lives indeed!..what a waste of an award given to an idi.ot by idi.ots!
MABVUTO
July 18, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Zambeef “poisoning the nation”