– ZAMBIA, Lusaka – Zambeef Products PLC (LON: ZAM), the fully integrated cold chain foods and retail business with operations in Zambia, Nigeria, and Ghana, today announced the appointment of Dr. John Rich to its Board as a Non-Executive Director, representing British International Investment plc, with effect from 21 June 2023.
About Dr. John Clifford Rich
Dr. John Rich is currently the Executive Chairman, of MHP SE, commencing in 2017. Previously, he was an Independent Non-Executive Director of MHP from 2007. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Zalar Holding SA and a Director at Australian Agricultural Nutrition and Consulting Pty Limited.
Dr. Rich has served as a Non-Executive Director at a range of companies domiciled in the UK, Denmark, Romania, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and Singapore and held various executive positions in agriculture and the food processing industry. He has worked for IFC World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Commonwealth Development Corporation, as a consulting agribusiness industry specialist.
Dr. Rich holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours in Pathology and a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours in Veterinary Science from the University of Sydney. Dr. Rich also holds numerous diplomas and certificates in agriculture, ruminant nutrition, finance, and financial modeling related to animal and vegetable protein production.
About Zambeef Products PLC
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 236 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 8.8m broilers and 22.4 million-day-old chicks a year. It has the largest pig abattoir and pork processing plants in Zambia, with a capacity to slaughter 75,000 pigs a year, while its dairy has a capacity of 120,000 liters per day.
The Group is also one of the largest cereal row cropping operations in Zambia, with approximately 7,787 hectares of row crops under irrigation, which are planted twice a year, and a further 8,694 hectares of rainfed/dry-land crops available for planting each year.
Source: https://zambeefplc.com/
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