{"id":208140,"date":"2025-09-25T07:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ppc-reports-significant-financial-growth-with-ebitda-up-over-20-percent\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:01:55","slug":"zimbabwe-ppc-reports-significant-financial-growth-with-ebitda-up-over-20-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-ppc-reports-significant-financial-growth-with-ebitda-up-over-20-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: PPC Reports Significant Financial Growth, With Ebitda Up Over 20 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">PPC&#8217;s share price surged 3.6% on Monday morning to R5.16 after it reported a &#8220;marked improvement&#8221; in its financial performance for the four months to July 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">The JSE-listed cement and aggregates maker for markets in South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe said in an update for the four months that their two-year-old &#8220;Awaken the Giant&#8221; turnaround strategy was gaining traction. This had resulted in further growth and margin expansion, on top of the improvement across key metrics achieved in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509240360.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPC&#8217;s share price surged 3.6% on Monday morning to R5.16 after it reported a &#8220;marked improvement&#8221; in its financial performance for the four months to July 31, 2025. The JSE-listed cement and aggregates maker for markets in South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe said in an update for the four months that their two-year-old &#8220;Awaken the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,52422,5063,6641,257,6720,32316,8327,17859,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-208140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ebitda","tag-growth","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-ppc","tag-reports","tag-significant","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}