PZ dividend falls to 20 kobo per share

Nigeria’s PZ Cussons, the local unit of British soap and shampoo maker, would pay an interim dividend of 0.20 naira per share  after it declared a nine-month pretax profit of N3.99 billion ($205 million).

The figure shows a 23 percent fall from a year earlier.

Turnover dropped slightly to N52.88 billion from N52.59 billion during the period to end-February compared with a year earlier, it said in a statement on Friday.