Zambeef Growth Story: Revenue Up, Profit Up, Capacity Expansion Underway
Zambeef Products Plc has strengthened its market leadership with ZMW 8.06 billion revenue signalling with a 10% growth margins, 18% gross profit growth, and 31% operating profit levels, an increase for the year ended 30 September 2025.
The agribusiness corporate outfit operates on a multi-billion kwacha asset base, including farmland, processing plants, poultry and dairy facilities, stockfeed plants, wheat flour milling plant, retail outlets dotted across the country and with strong biological assets.
Formal market share estimates are in between the ranges of 30–40% in beef category, respectively 20–30% in poultry and 15–25% in dairy.
Zambeef is executing a US$100 million capacity expansion programme, supported by World Bank Group-IFC financial and technical assistance, other DFIs and commercial financiers, with internally generated earnings.
British International Investment (BII) has proposed a capital restructuring, subject to independent shareholder approval at the EGM on 11 March 2026.
BII’s intent to convert preference shares into ordinary shares, as this will remove a balance sheet overhang, enhance dividend payouts, boost share price potential and support sustainable growth.
These developments will definitely benefit investors, employees, farmers, consumers, suppliers and the government, reinforcing Zambeef’s key position as a central pillar of Zambia’s agro-industrial and food security ecosystem.
