{"id":496,"date":"2014-10-13T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remgro.com\/ar2014\/overview-of-business\/group-profile\/company-history\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T12:12:59","slug":"company-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.remgro.com\/ar2014\/index.php\/overview-of-business\/group-profile\/company-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Company History"},"content":{"rendered":"

66 years of doing business<\/h2>\r\n\r\n
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1940s<\/span><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t
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Remgro\u2019s founding history goes back to the forties of the previous century when the founder of the Group, Dr Anton Rupert, established in Johannesburg, South Africa, the tobacco company Voorbrand, fore\u00adrunner of Rembrandt Group Limited (Rembrandt). Rembrandt was incorporated in 1948.<\/p>\r\n

Rembrandt thus entered the South African cigarette and tobacco industry in 1948 and in the fifties ex\u00adpanded abroad through the establishment of various international partnerships.<\/p>\r\n

Rembrandt\u2019s interests in the wine and spirits industry also date back to the 1940s when Dr Rupert and Mr D W R Hertzog founded Distillers Corporation.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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1950s<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t
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Rembrandt was listed on the JSE Limited South Africa in 1956.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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1970s<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t
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In 1972, the overseas tobacco interests of Rembrandt were consolidated in Rothmans International, which was listed on the London Stock Exchange.<\/p>\r\n

Since the 1970s Rembrandt expanded its interests outside tobacco, wine and spirits with investments in various other economic sectors in South Africa, amongst which were banking and financial services, mining, printing and packaging, medical services, engineering and food interests.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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1980s<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t
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The separation of local and overseas interests was effected in 1988 with the founding of Compagnie Financi\u00e8re Richemont AG (Richemont) \u2013 a Swiss-listed luxury goods group that included brands such as Cartier, Dunhill and Mont Blanc which then also acquired a share in Rothmans International.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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1990s<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t
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During 1993, Rembrandt co-founded South Africa\u2019s first cellular telephony company Vodacom, which was eventually disposed of in 2006 by VenFin Limited (VenFin). In 1995, Rembrandt and Richemont consolidated their respective tobacco interests in Rothmans Inter\u00adnational, at the time the world\u2019s fourth largest cigarette manufacturer, which was then delisted, and then in 1999\u00a0merged these interests with those of British American Tobacco Plc (BAT), the world\u2019s second largest cigarette producer. Since then the investment in BAT was held through a joint holding company in which Rembrandt (now Remgro) and Richemont held 33⅓% and 66⅔% respectively. Following the above restructuring, Rembrandt became a pure investment holding company.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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2000<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t
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The restructuring of Rembrandt was advanced a step further in September 2000 when the South African holding structure, consisting of four listed companies, was collapsed into two listed companies, namely Remgro and VenFin. Following the restructuring, Remgro represented Rembrandt\u2019s established tobacco, financial services, mining and industrial interests, while the telecommunication and technology interests were housed in VenFin.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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2008<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t
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During November 2008, Remgro unbundled its invest\u00adment in BAT to its shareholders by way of an interim dividend in specie amounting to a total amount of R55.2 billion. Following the BAT unbundling the Group\u2019s remaining interests consisted mainly of investments in banking and financial services, printing and packaging, motor components, glass products, medical services, mining, petroleum products, food, wine and spirits and various other trade mark products.<\/p>\r\n

At 30 June 2014, the value of the unbundled BAT shares has increased to R130.0 billion.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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During November 2009, Remgro and VenFin merged again, adding media and technology interests to the Group\u2019s investments.<\/p>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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