GROUP OVERVIEW
- This section deals with business activities including overviews of our markets, the Group's strategy, measures of performance and the outlook for 2013.
PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW
- Performance Overview
- > Chief executive's statement
- > Strategy and external appraisals
- > Operational reviews: South Africa
- > Operational reviews: Foodservice
- > Operational reviews: Namibia
- > Operational reviews: Corporate
- The chairman's report, our board and management structures and the overall performance of our market segments as reviewed by the chief executive, financial director and divisional chief executive.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
- Financial statements
- > Financial director's review
- > Governance for a sustainable
  business
- > Financial statements
- > Shareholders' information
- > Shareholders' diary
- > Glossary and definations
- > Administration
- > AGM
- The Group financial statements, Notes to the financial statements and other useful shareholder and administrative information.

PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

Operational review BIDVEST foodservice
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Bernard Berson Chief executive

DIVISIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO
BIDVEST FOODSERVICE REVENUE

Comprises market leading foodservice product distributors in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, the Baltic States, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Greater China, Hong Kong, Chile and southern Africa. Bidvest leads the foodservice industry in its chosen geographies operating through strategically located independent business units servicing the catering, hospitality, leisure, bakery, poultry, meat and food processing industries.

“Many customers demand competitive prices and good environmental business practice. We have to achieve the optimum balance while engaging in constant communication with our customers to highlight the benefit of doing business with a socially responsible supplier.”

Bernard Berson
Chief executive

Highlights and challenges

Satisfactory financial performance achieved in unfavourable conditions
Bidvest procurement company, a centralised sourcing operation established
Business failure particularly in the restaurant sector, a challenge
Extremely cost conscious customers

Financial performance

Environmental performance

QUICK LINK: GHG inventory
http://www.bidvest.com/ar/bidvest_ar2012/003.php

Social performance

QUICK LINK: Comparative sustainability data
http://www.bidvest.com/ar/bidvest_ar2012/004.php

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