Thursday 24 September 2015

UACN PAYS OUT N3.3 BILLION AS DIVIDEND

 
The Chairman of UAC of Nigeria Plc Senator Udo Udoma, announced that the company got the approval of it's shareholders to pay N3.3 billion as dividends for the financial year ended December 31, 2014, an amount  which translates into N1.75 per ordinary share of 50 kobo.The company grew its top line by nine per cent to N85.7billion, from N78.7billion in 2013 with the pre-tax profit rising from N13.9billion to N14.1billion.

Senator Udoma  told the shareholders that the company had been dynamic in it's approach and consolidated on it's Vital fish feed brand recently introduced. “To further consolidate on our technology improvement initiative, capacity and efficiency in our operations, three new plants were commissioned including a new feed mill at the Ikeja plant of Livestock Feeds Plc, an automated pie line for the restaurants business and a new processing and packaging technology for Supreme Ice Cream.” he said.
Other areas of improvement in the company's operation he mentioned are the implementation of SAP software and enterprise risk management framework to enhance the control environment of it's business in line with the company's business transformation process. The company continued to see improvements in its operations due to the outsourcing of it's internal audit function and whistle blowing mechanism (calling attention to wrong doing in an organization).

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