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BELL EQUIPMENT LIMITED - Updated trading statement

Release Date: 16/09/2016 10:25
Code(s): BEL     PDF:  
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Updated trading statement

BELL EQUIPMENT LIMITED
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
Registration number 1968/013656/06
ISIN: ZAE000028304
Share Code: BEL
(“Bell Equipment” or “the Company” or “the Group”)

UPDATED TRADING STATEMENT

Shareholders are referred to the trading statement released on
the Stock Exchange News Service (“SENS”) on 18 August 2016
wherein it was reported that the Company’s earnings per share
(“EPS”) and headline earnings per share (“HEPS”) were expected
to be at least 20% lower (at least 21 cents lower) for the half
year ended 30 June 2016 (“the period”) when compared to the
reported EPS and HEPS of 106 cents and 101 cents, respectively,
for the half year ended 30 June 2015.

After further investigations into the fraud and mismanagement in
the Company’s subsidiary in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
shareholders are now advised that the Company expects EPS and
HEPS for the period to be between 65 cents and 69 cents (or
between 32% and 39% lower), when compared with the reported EPS
and HEPS of 106 cents and 101 cents respectively, for the half
year ended 30 June 2015.

Without the impact of the findings in the Company’s subsidiary
in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the expected EPS and HEPS
for the half year ended 30 June 2016 would have been higher than
reported for the half year ended 30 June 2015.

The financial information on which this trading statement is
based has not been reviewed and reported on by the Company's
external auditors.

It is anticipated that Bell Equipment will release its unaudited
interim results on SENS on or about 22 September 2016.

Richards Bay
16 September 2016

Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)

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