Cape Town – Lewis Group overcame the adverse impact of the Covid-19 trading restrictions to deliver a strong operating performance for the year to March 2021, with headline earnings increasing by 126.4% to R463.0 million. A total dividend of 328 cents per share has been declared, an increase of 77.3% over last year. The group’s…
Cape Town – Lewis Group overcame severe trading restrictions in the first two months of the national Covid-19 lockdown to recover strongly and increase operating profit by 13.6% for the six months to September 2020. Headline earnings per share increased by 9.9% to 236 cents and the board declared an interim dividend of 133 cents…
Cape Town – Lewis Group delivered a solid trading and operational performance for the year to March 2020 before being impacted by Covid-19 and the national lockdown which contributed to headline earnings per share declining by 30.8% to 260 cents. Covid-19 adjustments reduced profit before taxation by R339 million and headline earnings by R224 million.…
