List Of Company Winners 2005 (Year 2004)

Overall Winner

• Absa Group Limited

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Resources

Diamonds, Precious Metals And Minerals, Coal, Gold And Platinum

• Gold Fields Limited

Mining Finance & Other Mineral Extractors & Mines

• Bhp Billiton Plc

Basic Industries

(Incl Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Forestry & Paper, Steel & Other Metals, Construction & Building Materials)

• Sasol Limited

Financial

Banks

• Absa Group Limited

Life Assurance & Insurance

• Sanlam Limited

General

(Incl. Investment Companies, Speciality & Other Finance & Real Estate)

• African Bank Investments Limited

Industrial

Consumer

(Incl. Beverages, Food Producer & Processors, Health, Pharmaceuticals And Biotechnology, Household Goods & Textiles, Automobiles 7 Parts)

• Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited

Services

(Incl General Retailers, Support Services, Leisure & Hotels, Media & Entertainment, Transport)

• The Bidvest Group

General

(Incl Diversified Industrials, Electronic & Electrical Equipment, Engineering & Machinery, It Hardware, Software And Computers, Food And Drug Retailers, Telecommunications & Services)

• Imperial Holdings Limited

Small Companies

(Market Capitalisation Below R2 000 Million)

• Astrapak Limited

Most Improved Reporting and Communications

• Grindrod Limited

Best Chairman’s Statement

• Firstrand Limited

Best Presentation to the Society

During 2004

• Steinhoff International Holdings Limited

SAMREC/IAS Award

• Gold Fields Limited

Journal Winner – Sanlam Capital Markets/IAS Journal Award

Accuracy Of Brokers’ Consensus Earnings Forecasts: The South African Case

• Chanden Prayag And Paul Van Rensburg