ART Holdings (Amalgamated Regional Trading) is a company in
Zimbabwe. It is principally a
paper manufacturer, including
stationery and
tissue converting. The ART Group of Companies is active in Zimbabwe,
Malawi and throughout
Southern Africa.
"ART" stands for "Amalgamated Regional Trading". ART Group is based in
Harare and it conducts
papermaking
Papermaking is the manufacture of paper and cardboard, which are used widely for printing, writing, and packaging, among many other purposes. Today almost all paper is made using industrial machinery, while handmade paper survives as a speciali ...
operations in
Mutare
Mutare (formerly Umtali) is the most populous city in the province of Manicaland, and the third most populous city in Zimbabwe, having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban area, urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 ...
and
Kadoma. Its
stock
In finance, stock (also capital stock) consists of all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.Longman Business English Dictionary: "stock - ''especially AmE'' one of the shares into which ownership of a company ...
is listed on the
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and is a component of its principal
stock index, the
Zimbabwe Industrial Index
The Zimbabwe Industrial Index is a stock index derived from the values of industrial stocks on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. The Zimbabwe Mining Index is a separate stock index, composed of mining companies.
Index listing
:''March 2007''
Zimba ...
.
Operations
Subsidiaries and brands
*ART brands include
**
Softex Tissue;
**
Eversharp
Eversharp is an American brand of writing implements founded by Charles Rood Keeran in 1913 and marketed by Keeran & Co., based in Chicago. Keeran commercialised ''Eversharp'' mechanical pencils (manufactured by two companies, Heath and Wahl), the ...
ball pens and
school supplies; and
**
Fleximail paper, board and
kraft paper.
*Subsidiaries include:
**
National Waste Collections and
Softex
Softex S.A. is a Greek paper towel company, headquartered in Athens, west of downtown. The company is located at the Acteon Building in Irinis Street, Neo Faliro, Athens. The first owner of the company was Apostolos Nikolaidis.
It manufactures ...
, both 50% collaborations between ART and
Hunyani Holdings.
**
ART Investments Mauritius, of
Mauritius.
**
Chloride Zimbabwe, an ART
subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a s ...
which manufactures
lead-acid batteries for the
Southern African
Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number of ...
automotive and tractive industries.
References
External links
ART Holdings' official website*
Companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
Companies based in Harare
Pulp and paper companies of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean companies established in 1997
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