While most Zimbabwean companies are struggling to grow, Innscor just added $176 million in revenue in one year. That's more than Dairiboard's entire revenue. Here's the full breakdown of Innscor's Results, including the big lesson for any business leader. Let's Unpack!

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See this differently Mukoma. Missed the original discussion but to come up with blended inflation you would need to factor in the FX rate. More appropriate approach is comparing revenues with USD inflation of 14% for companies reporting in USD.

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Where’s the Money? What’s the Move? A common trend among top-performing companies, whether in terms of growth like Innscor or stock returns like First Capital, is that they are capitalising on current opportunities without trying to overengineer the future. As mentioned in an

In recent years, the emphasis has shifted to internal investment, resulting in massive growth in capital expenditure (CAPEX). Annual CAPEX rose from $8 million in 2020 to more than $70 million in 2024. Innscor is also not slowing down. As of the year ended June 30, 2025, the

Innscor’s Growth: Money Never Sleeps If there is one superpower that Innscor has had, it is exceptional capital allocation. Capital allocation is the distribution, re-distribution, and investment of financial resources to maximise stakeholder profit. In short, it's about

One theory I have regarding margin compression in general is around the increased informalization of the Economy. When customers are shopping in less formal retail stores, the aesthetic feel of the place matters less. Pricing becomes the primary consideration. This means that

Some of this is by design. Innscor launched The Buffalo Brewing Company in 2021 to compete with Delta Corporation. This business is likely to have been loss-making initially as it builds up. Another reason for the lower margin is the sugar tax introduced in 2024, which Innscor

While revenue growth has been excellent, profit has suffered. The below shows Innscor’s Revenue and EBITDA margin, and you can clearly see that it has been dropping from around 15% to 9%. That is $60 million worth of EBITDA.

What is driving this growth? We will unpack that later on, but for now, we also need to examine the profit, which came in at $51 million, resulting in a net profit margin of 4.7%, down from 5.3% last year. The EBITDA margin (which can represent operating profit) was also down

In addition, in 2021, Innscor's revenue was about $513 million, so they have added $500 million of revenue in less than 5 years. To also put that into perspective, it represents more revenue than Seedco, Edgars, NMB, African Sun, Tanganda, Ariston, and Proplastics COMBINED.

Innscor’s Financial Results Innscor posted a solid set of numbers, with the highlight being revenue growth of 19% to reach $1.09 billion. That increase from last year was $176 million. To put that growth into perspective, it represents more revenue than Dairiboard, which holds

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