Notes to the annual financial statements

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2009

« Note 4 Note 6 »
               
5. Intangible assets
      2009       2008    
      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 347   –   347   345   –   345  
  Trade marks and other 144    (97)  47   154   (91)  63  
    491   (97)  394   499   (91)  408  
               
            2009   2008  
  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   2009   Goodwill   and other   2008  
  end of the year R million   R million   R million   R million   R million   R million  
  Balances at 1 April 345   63   408   342   71   413  
  Amortisation –   (11)  (11)  –   (12)  (12) 
  Businesses acquired 4   –   4   2   –   2  
  Other (2)  (5)  (7)  1   4   5  
  Balances at 31 March 347   47   394   345   63   408  
               
  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   2009  
        subsidiaries   subsidiaries   subsidiaries   Total  
  Goodwill allocated (R million) 292   39   16   347  
  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       13.5%        
  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.