stocksmaster wrote:Mumias will only stabilise after 2012 once the effects of the COMESA Rules on the sugar industry are fully internalised. The fact of the matter is external sugar is still cheaper than internally generated sugar. Meaning Mumias margins will get a beating once the flood gates are opened in 2012(I dont think COMESA will listen to any further extensions of Safeguards.)
@ Njung'e: What is the way forward? How can the local sugar companies compete? Or should the Western Sugar Belt think of another crop?
The argument that Mumias is diversifying to other products for revenue generation does not hold much. On a revenue generation point, when all the different revenue streams are factored in, sugar will still constitute 80% of Mumias Sugar Co. business (Sugar:co-generation:ethanol will be about 80:10:10). Thus Mumias revenues and profits will largely depend on its core business which is sugar.
Time will tell.
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Three years later, and this argument is still valid. Its core business is sugar and if it cannot make money in the sugar trade, the future is very bleak for this company.
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