The shareholders of the company Bernabé Côte d’Ivoire, a subsidiary of the multinational of the same name and specializing in the marketing of hardware products, will be weaned, for the second consecutive year, from dividends for the financial year 2020, according to the financial statements of summary verified by the statutory auditors and made public by the managers of this company based in Abidjan.
In fact, in the profit allocation plan for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, which will be submitted for approval to the Ordinary General Meeting of June 28, 2021, no amount was mentioned under the heading “ Total gross dividends to be distributed ”. The leaders of Bernabé Côte d’Ivoire thus preferred to allocate the net profit of 630 million FCFA (against 423 million FCFA in 2019) to Retainer which goes from 10.318 billion FCFA in 2019 to 10.947 billion FCFA in 2020 .
The last dividends paid by Bernabé Côte d’Ivoire go back to fiscal years 2017 and 2018 with a respective net dividend per share of FCFA 63 and FCFA 45. As of December 31, 2020, the company’s turnover decreased from 1.814 billion to 39.472 billion FCFA against 41.286 billion FCFA in 2019.
The company’s purchases of goods fell from 2.132 billion to 29.341 billion FCFA against 31.473 billion FCFA in 2019. Other external charges also recorded a decrease of 460 million, from 6.239 billion FCFA as of December 31, 2019. to 5.779 billion FCFA as of December 31, 2020. As for the added value, it increased by 8.21%, standing at 6.392 billion FCFA against 5.907 billion FCFA in 2019.
As far as they are concerned, personnel costs fell by 210 million, going from 3.734 billion FCFA at December 31, 2019 to 3.524 billion FCFA at the end of the year under review. The gross operating surplus increased by 32.02%, standing at 2.869 billion FCFA against 2.173 billion FCFA in 2019. For its part, the operating result increased by 61.75%. establishing at 1.527 billion FCFA against 944 million FCFA in 2019.
