Corporate Announcements

Group Chairman’s Statement The statement is prepared on the basis of inflation adjusted numbers. Business Overview Material disruptions stemming from COVID-19 had a significant impact on the group’s performance, most significantly in April and May due to enforced lockdowns.Since then sales have been steadily recovering. Units sold to end of June trading declined from 1.6 […]

The Board wishes to advise its stakeholders that 5 493 162 new ordinary shares, being 2% of the 274,658,112 Rights Offer Shares, will be issued from the 95 752 219 ordinary shares of the balance of the authorised but unissued ordinary shares of the Company placed under the control of the Directors, to Annunaki Investments […]

The following are the results of the Edgars Stores Limited Rights Offer which closed on 21 August 2020. Number of Rights Offer shares 274 658 112 Ordinary Rights Offer Shares subscribed 144 291 331 Percentage Subscription 53% Percentage taken by the Underwriter 47% Ordinary Shares issued to the Underwriter 130 366 781 The shares were […]

The company presents the business update for second quarter ended 5 July 2020. Trading Environment The conditions carried over from the first quarter remain largely unchanged as impacted by an unstable macro-economic environment exacerbated by the effects of Covid-19. Sales were trending upwards since lockdown relaxation but have been hampered by shortened trading hours enacted […]

The Board wishes to advise its stakeholders that following the unanticipated delays in the reopening of the Zimbabwean Stock Exchange (“ZSE”), Edgars Stores Limited “Edgars” has decided to further extend the Rights Offer Period. The following new deadline dates and time will apply: Dealing and splitting of letters of allocation 14 August 2020 at 12:00 […]

The Board wishes to advise its stakeholders that following the unanticipated delays in the reopening of the Zimbabwean Stock Exchange (“ZSE”), Edgars Stores Limited “Edgars” has decided to further extend the Rights Offer Period by an additional one (1) week. Resultantly the Rights Offer closure date has been extended to Friday the 14th of August […]

The Board wishes to advise its stakeholders that following the closure of the Zimbabwean Stock Exchange (“ZSE”), Edgars Stores Limited “Edgars” has decided to extend the Rights Offer Period by an additional three (3) weeks and resultantly the Rights Offer closure date has been revised from the original date of Friday the 17th of July […]

The Board of Directors of Edgars Stores Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Tjeludo is a career woman who holds among others, the Chartered Accountant (Zimbabwe) qualification. She joined the Edgars Group 8 years ago, coming from the profession where she had risen to the position of Audit Manager. She joined the Group […]

Announcement of the results of voting at the Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders of Edgars Stores Limited held at 12:00 AM on 16 June 2020 regarding the proposed Renounceable Rights Offer of 274,745,630 ordinary shares of a nominal value of ZWL$0.01 each, at a Rights Offer price of ZWL$0.2548 per share, on the basis of […]

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an Extraordinary General Meeting (“EGM”) of the Members of Edgars Stores Limited (“Edgars ” or “the Company”) will be held at LAPF 1st Floor, Corner 8th Avenue and Jason Moyo Street in Bulawayo on Tuesday, 16 June at 1200 hours for the purpose of transacting the following business and consider […]

THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION The Board is proposing a Renounceable Rights Offer to recapitalize Edgars by way of a rights offer of 274,745,630 (Two hundred and seventy- four million, seven hundred and forty five thousand, six hundred and thirty) ordinary shares of a nominal value of ZWL$0.01 (1 ZWL Cent) each, at a Rights Offer price […]

Financial Reporting in Hyper Inflationary Economies – IAS 29 We are operating in a hyper inflationary environment and the entity will continue reporting in compliance with IAS 29. However, for this trading update, the Group reported based on historical cost. Group Performance The Group has not been spared from the impact of diminishing consumer purchasing […]

The Board of Directors of Edgars Stores Limited releases its 2019 audited financial results presentation, below are excerpts from the presentation. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Functional currency: ZWL$. FY2020-LOOKING AHEAD

INTRODUCTION I am pleased to present the Edgars Stores Limited Group financial results for the 52 weeks ended 5 January 2020. The commentary on the financials is based on the inflation adjusted numbers. The historical numbers are shown as supplementary information as they have not been prepared in compliance with International Accounting Standard 29 – […]

Edgars Stores Limited would like to advise shareholders that the Group will not be able to publish its year end results for the 52 weeks ended 05 January 2020 by the 30th of April 2020 as previously announced. The delay has been a result of the restrictions brought about by the “Covid-19 pandemic”, induced lock […]

Edgars Stores Limited would like to advise shareholders that the company will not be able to publish year end results for the 52 weeks ended 05 January 2020 by the 30th of March 2020 per the ZSE listing rules. The delay has been a result of IAS 29 work that will take longer than anticipated. […]