Investors who bought into Astral Foods on the back of a superb trading update in early November will have made an 11% loss as the share fell from R171.50 at the time, to R152 by the time the company reported its results on Monday. While Astral and peers like Sovereign Foods and RCL Foods have all delivered better results thanks to more benign trading conditions and after a four tough years, the clouds are once again building on the horizon. Dirk van Vlaanderen comments. view article