African Oxygen Ltd. provided consolidated earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2014. For the year, the company's revenue is expected to be in line with the revenue earned in the previous financial year of ZAR 5,825 million. The ongoing impact of inflation and reduced volumes affected the Group's EBITDA before any restructuring costs is expected to be between 5% and 10% below that of the previous year of ZAR 792 million to ZAR 836 million.

Earnings per share are expected to be between 68% and 78% lower than earnings per share of the prior year 2014 of 22.0 cents per share to 32.0 cents per share. Headline earnings per share are expected to be between 57% and 67% lower when compared to the headline earnings as reported for the 2013 financial year after taking into account both the provision made and impairment costs related to the restructure.