BUA Foods Plc, the newly listed arm of BUA Group, on Monday hits N1.053 trillion market capitalisation just four days after it was listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX).
BUA Foods listed 18 billion ordinary shares at N40 a unit on the main board of NGX on Wednesday 5, 2022. At N40 per share, BUA Foods’ market capitalisation was N720 billion. However, because of its attractiveness to both local and foreign investors, the stock rose by over 20 percent in the first two trading days to N48.4 per unit.
Demand for BUA Foods continues as investors scooped 204,599,864.00 on Friday, bolstering the price to N53.2 a unit. On Monday, another 101,356,308 shares were traded at N58.5 to increase market capitalisation to N1.053 trillion from N720 billion it was listed just four trading days ago.
The company has now added N1.05 trillion to NGX liquidity in line with the Exchange projection. “It is expected that this listing will also increase the visibility of the food manufacturing, processing, and distribution company, BUA Foods, to investors on the African continent and across the globe.,” stated NGX.
BUA Foods Plc presently focuses on cultivating, processing, manufacturing, producing, mixing, packing, preserving, extracting, refining, importing, exporting, buying, selling, trading, and dealing in all kinds of foods, consumables, food materials or derivatives as well as raw materials for making all kinds of foods, food products and ingredients for making any kind of foods and consumables.
BUA Foods was created in November 2021 following a restructuring by way of a scheme under Section 711 of CAMA (the “Restructuring”) among BUA Sugar Refinery Limited (“BUA Sugar Refinery”), IRS Flour Mills Limited, IRS Pasta Limited, BUA Rice Limited, BUA Oil Mills Limited, and BUA Foods Limited (the “Entities”), further to which BUA Sugar Refinery (a private limited liability company, incorporated on 13 April 2005 and commenced business operations in September 2008) emerged as the surviving entity. As part of the Restructuring, the name of the enlarged entity was changed to BUA Foods with its operations reorganised into five business divisions: Sugar, Flour, Pasta, Rice and Edible Oils. In December 2021, the Company was converted into a public limited liability company. BUA Foods is affiliated with diverse group companies under the BUA brand that span the food and infrastructure sectors.
