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Astral Foods ARL.JO · ZAc

Consumer Staples · JSE · 🇿🇦 South Africa

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About Astral Foods

Its shares trade on JSE under the ticker ARL.JO. It has been listed since 9 April 2001. In the fiscal year to 30 September 2025, it reported revenue of ZAR 22.62bn and net income of ZAR 876.4m. At that date it held total assets of ZAR 9.33bn and shareholders' equity of ZAR 5.37bn.

Astral Foods Ltd. engages in the poultry production activities. The company is headquartered in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The company went IPO on 2001-04-09. The firm is an integrated poultry producer, which is engaged in manufacturing of animal feeds, broiler genetics, production and sale of day-old chicks and hatching eggs, breeder and broiler production, abattoir and further processing operations and sales, and distribution of various poultry brands. The company operates through three segments: Poultry, Feed and Other Africa. The company has approximately four fully integrated broiler production, processing, distribution, sales and marketing operations with a combined processing capacity of approximately 4,922,000 processed broilers per week. Its business units include Festive and Goldi, Mountain Valley, County Fair, National Chicks, Ross 308, Meadow Feeds, Provimi SSA, CAL, Tiger Chicks, Tiger Animal Feeds, Mozpintos, National Chicks Swaziland and Meadow Mozambique. The company has poultry operations in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia, and feed mills in South Africa, Mozambique and Zambia.

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Company facts

Sector
Consumer Staples
Industry
Food Products
Listed since
9 Apr 2001
Employees
9,047

Leadership

Pay as last reported

  • Dr. Theunis EloffIndependent Non-Executive Chairman of the BoardZAR 1.3m
  • Mr. Christiaan SchutteChief Executive Officer, Executive Director, since 2004ZAR 30.8m
  • Mr. Johan Andries FerreiraChief Financial Officer, Executive Director, since 2022ZAR 15.5m
  • Mr. Gary ArnoldChief Executive Officer, Executive Director, since 2012ZAR 16.4m
  • Mr. Frans Van HeerdenManaging Director - Poultry Commercial, Executive Director, since 2020ZAR 13.8m
  • Mr. Michael SchmitzManaging Director - FeedZAR 13.8m
  • Mr. Kenny SchoemanManaging Director - Agriculture
  • Mr. Colin SmithMarketing Executive
  • Mr. Gideon JordaanHuman Resources ExecutiveZAR 9.5m
  • Mr. Isak BurgerGroup Credit Manager
  • Dr. Obed LukheleTechnical Executive - Agriculture, since 2009ZAR 4.4m
  • Ms. Nikki MoodleyOperations Improvement Executive

Environmental, social and governance

Scores out of 100, from our data supplier

ESG
Overall
52
Environment
40
Social
67
Governance
50
Direct emissions (scope 1)
199,541 t
Energy emissions (scope 2)
285,899 t
Women in the workforce
49%
Carbon reduction policy
Yes
Human rights policy
Yes

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