Notes to the annual financial statements

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2008

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5. GOODWILL AND TRADEMARKS
      2008       2007    
      Accumulated       Accumulated    
    Cost or   impairment/   Net   Cost or   impairment/   Net  
    valuation   amortisation   value   valuation   amortisation   value  
    R million   R million   R million   R million   R million   R million  
  Goodwill 345   –   345   342   –   342  
  Trade marks and other 154   91   63   146   75   71  
    499   91   408   488   75   413  
                   
            2008   2007  
  Amortisation rates are as follows:     %   %  
  Trade marks and other         5 – 100   5 – 100  
                   
  Reconciliation of            
  carrying value at   Trade marks       Trade marks    
  the beginning and Goodwill   and other   2008   Goodwill   and other   2007  
  end of the year R million   R million   R million   R million   R million   R million  
  Balances at 1 April 342   71   413   316   36   352  
  Additions –   –   –   19   37   56  
  Amortisation –   (12)  (12)  –   (14)  (14) 
  Businesses acquired 2   –   2   7   2   9  
  Other 1   4   5   –   10   10  
  Balances at 31 March 345   63   408   342   71   413  
               
  Goodwill is tested annually for any possible impairment and for this reason allocated to the respective cash-generating units as indicated below.
               
               
          Tsb Sugar      
        Rainbow   Holdings   Wispeco    
        Chicken   (Pty)   Holdings    
        Limited    Limited   Limited    
        and its   and its   and its   2008  
        subsidiaries   subsidiaries   subsidiaries   Total  
  Goodwill allocated (R million) 291   38   16   345  
  Basis of valuation of cash-generating units Value   Value   Value    
        in use   in use   in use    
               
  R287 million of the goodwill relating to Rainbow Chicken and its subsidiaries relates to the acquisition of Vector Logistics (Pty) Limited in 2005. In determining the value in use of the cash-generating unit to which this goodwill was allocated, the following assumptions were used:
               
  Discount rate       18.80%        
  Growth rate       5.0%        
  Period       5 years        
               
  Sensitivity analysis of assumptions used in the goodwill impairment test:
               
  Assumption     Movement   Impairment        
  Discount rate     +5%   Nil        
  Growth rate     –5%   Nil        
               
  During the year under review no impairment of goodwill occurred.