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RNS Number : 8945T Zambeef Products PLC 20 February 2026
ZAMBEEF PRODUCTS PLC
("Zambeef", the "Company" or the "Group")
[Incorporated in the Republic of Zambia]
Company registration number: 31824
Share Code: ZAMBEEF
ISIN: ZM0000000201
Shareholders Engagement Meeting
And
Independent Shareholders FAQs
Zambeef (AIM: ZAM), the fully integrated cold chain food products and retail
business with operations in Zambia, Nigeria and Ghana, announces details of a
forthcoming Shareholder Engagement Meeting.
On Tuesday 10 February 2026 the Company announced details of a forthcoming
Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") of Zambeef, at which shareholders
independent of British International Investment Plc ("BII") will be asked to
consider and approve a waiver of their rights to participate in a mandatory
takeover offer ("MTO") that would otherwise arise upon conversion of the
preference shares held by BII into ordinary shares. The EGM is to be held on
Wednesday 11 March 2026.
Ahead of the EGM, the Board of Directors of Zambeef invite shareholders to a
shareholders engagement meeting (the "Shareholder Engagement Meeting"), to
provide further clarity on any matters or questions that may be arising with
regards to the forthcoming EGM.
The shareholders engagement meeting will be held physically at the Protea
Hotel, Arcades Shopping and Entertainment Complex, Corner Thabo Mbeki and
Great East Road, Lusaka, and virtually via video conferencing at the following
link: https://eagm.corpservezambia.com.zm/eagm/
(https://eagm.corpservezambia.com.zm/eagm/) on Friday 27 February 2026 at
11:00am CAT / 9:00am GMT.
In addition, the Company has made available online an Independent Shareholders
FAQs document which is available now at the following link
https://zambeefplc.com/market-announcements/
(https://zambeefplc.com/market-announcements/) .
Shareholders are also reminded that the Information Memorandum, which includes
the Notice of EGM, can be accessed at the following link:
https://zambeefplc.com/market-announcements/
(https://zambeefplc.com/market-announcements/) .
Shareholders who are not able to attend the shareholders engagement meeting
are welcome to send their questions to the following email address:
ir@zambeef.co.zm.
For further information, please visit www.zambeefplc.com
(http://www.zambeefplc.com) or contact:
Zambeef Products plc Tel: +260 (0) 211 369003
Faith Mukutu, Chief Executive Officer
Patrick Kalifungwa, Chief Financial Officer
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7220 0500
Ed Frisby/Isaac Hooper (Corporate Finance)
Tim Redfern (ECM)
Autus Securities Limited Tel: +260 (0) 211 840 513
(Sponsoring Broker)
Mataka Nkhoma (Sponsoring Broker)
By Order of the Board
Mwansa M Mutimushi
COMPANY SECRETARY
Lusaka, Zambia 20 February 2026
Notes to Editors
Zambeef Products plc is the largest integrated cold chain food products and
agribusiness company in Zambia and one of the largest in the region, involved
in the primary production, processing, distribution and retailing of beef,
chicken, pork, milk, dairy products, fish, flour and stockfeed, throughout
Zambia and the surrounding region, as well as Nigeria and Ghana.
It has 248 retail outlets throughout Zambia and West Africa.
The Company is one of the largest suppliers of beef in Zambia. Five beef
abattoirs and three feedlots are located throughout Zambia, with a capacity to
slaughter 230,000 cattle a year. It is also one of the largest chicken
producers in Zambia, with a capacity of 12.5m broilers and
31.2-million-day-old chicks a year. It is one of the largest piggeries, pig
abattoirs and pork processing plants in Zambia, with a capacity to slaughter
102,000 pigs a year, while its dairy has a capacity of 140,000 litres per day.
The Group is also one of the largest cereal row cropping operations in Zambia,
with approximately 7,254 hectares of row crops under irrigation, which are
planted twice a year, and a further 7,943 hectares of rainfed/dry-land crops
available for planting each year.
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