Published: 27 February 2014

Allied Timbers Holdings has closed its Botswana business due to the fall in demand of roofing timber material in that country and has instead set sights on the Zambian market, a senior official said yesterday.

Chief executive Joseph Kanyekanye said the company has restructured its domestic marketing channel and is now directly feeding the informal sector as opposed to the old system where it sold its products through merchants.

Allied set up a division in Botswana in 2004 and had 5 branches, a pole treating plant and a wooden truss factory.  

Kanyekanye said the company is now leasing most of its Botswana properties.

It has also identified a distribution agent for its products.
- herald

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