Woolworths shares profit from sale of David Jones’s head office with shareholders
Woolworths shared its R1.76bn profit from the sale of Australian department store David Jones’s Sydney head office with shareholders by maintaining its interim dividend at R1.33 despite a decline in headline earnings.
The newly operational Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Commission, in seeking to ensure that the transformation agenda continues to gain momentum, has highlighted how B-BBEE will be measured and stressed the issues that the commission will be clamping down on, with associated penalties and implications for non-compliance.