Half Yearly Report

RNS Number : 9895Y

Camellia PLC

14 September 2015

 



Camellia Plc

(the "Company")

Half Yearly Report

14 September 2015

Interim Report for the period to 30 June 2015

A copy of the above document has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM or on the Company's website, www.camellia.plc.uk 

For further enquiries please contact

Camellia Plc                                                                                                     01622 746655

Malcolm Perkins, Chairman

Susan Walker, Finance Director

Julia Morton, Company Secretary

Panmure Gordon                                                                                           020 7886 2500

Nominated Adviser & Broker

Russell Cook

James Greenwood

Company description:

Camellia Plc (CAM.L) is a global agriculture and horticulture group, whose activities also extend to engineering, food storage and distribution, banking and financial services. The Group employs approximately 75,000 people globally.

The agriculture and horticulture division is engaged in the growing and production of tea, edible nuts (macadamias, pistachios and almonds), citrus fruits, avocados, rubber, forestry, viticulture, cattle, other horticultural produce and general farming (maize and soya). The Group is one of the largest private tea producers world-wide with a total of 65 tea estates and 60 tea factories. The Group's main operations are in India, Bangladesh, Malawi and Kenya, where the tea is grown and produced. It also has notable agricultural operations, other than tea, in Brazil, California, Kenya, South Africa and Malawi.

The engineering division is engaged in precision engineering, cutting and grinding, heat treatment, galvanising, powder coating, and metal finishing, etch inspection, the manufacture of stables, and the development of catalysts. These businesses are predominantly UK based and serve customers in a number of sectors including the offshore oil and gas and aerospace sectors.

The food storage and distribution division is involved in frozen, chilled and ambient temperature food supply chain management providing cold storage, refrigerated transport and production support to several leading UK food manufacturers. It also specialises in frozen imports and distributes seafood products in Europe and supplies food service customers in the Netherlands with fish products.

The banking and financial services division comprises Duncan Lawrie, which provides an integrated suite of banking services, financial planning, investment management and trust and estate advice.

 

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