Notes to the annual financial statements

Pick n Pay Stores Limited

 
     
 
      GROUP
      2011  
Rm  
    2010  
Rm  
12.   Loans            
  The following loans have been advanced by subsidiary companies:            
  Employees            
  Executive directors            
  At 1 March     0.8       0.8  
  Advanced     —       —  
  Repaid     (0.3)      —  
  At 28 February     0.5       0.8  
  Other employees     86.9       120.7  
  Amounts owing to participants of the share purchase scheme     (0.8)      (0.4) 
  Total employee loans     86.6       121.1  
  Trading loan     4.0       4.0  
  Holding company loan     (0.4)      (0.4) 
  Total loans at 28 February     90.2       124.7  
  Loans to directors and employees are secured, bear interest at varying rates subject to a maximum rate of 8% (2010: 8%) per annum and have varying repayment terms. Loans to employees from the Employee Share Purchase Trust are payable within 10 years from the date of advance.  
  The trading loan is secured, bears interest at the prime bank rate and is repayable after one year.