In May 2019, Concord Refrigeration (a division of Southey Holdings) was busy working with some of the country’s leading retailers, providing refrigerated display cabinets as well as heated display cabinets. After the pandemic, rioting, and further...
“Only 8-10% of total animal consumption in South Africa is pork,” admits Johann Kotzé, CEO of the South African Pork Producers Organisation (SAPPO). It’s small compared to chicken which is about 60%, he says. “But we believe we play a major role in...
“Denny is the mushroom expert, and we are passionate about what we do,” neatly summates the mushroom monolith. This much is undeniable: its three hi-tech farms in Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng produce half of the total mushroom consumption...
Manica province, Mozambique – around 62,000km2 centrally located within the country, home to almost two million people – has rich agricultural opportunity. Good rainfall, mild climate, large open spaces, fertile soil, and an abundant workforce make...
For southern Africa’s food producers, industry and macro-economic conditions are beginning to bite. The war in Ukraine, crippling power cuts, adverse weather conditions, challenging currency pricing conditions, and increasing regulatory...
Present in 191 countries around the world and with more than 2000 brands ranging from global icons like Nescafé or Nespresso to local favourites such as Ricoffy to its name, Nestlé is steadfast in its drive to enhance quality of life and contribute...
Approximately 3,500 employees staff the array of Daybreak Farms operations, which span Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and KwaZulu-Natal and enable it to produce a full gamut of poultry products. Daybreak Farms began life in 2001 as AFGRI Poultry,...
“The market of South Africa including the neighbouring countries will double its inhabitants to 400 million people by 2050,” says Stefan Scheiber, Bühler Group CEO, speaking of the mass potential in the region. Bühler is a global powerhouse in the...
A short drive from Cape Town, northeast through Paarl, across the agricultural heartland of South Africa, you enter the Ceres Valley. A beautiful, lush, rich landscape - boasting mountain ranges for shelter and deep healthy soil – you will not find...
South Africa’s world-famous fruit farming industry is set to hit a boom period as good weather boosts harvests, and favourable trading conditions drive demand for the country’s tasty and lovingly nurtured products. Currently, South Africa is a...
The years of 2020 and 2021 will forever be remembered as times of tragedy and difficulty. Covid-19 created challenges like never before. Travel, tourism, hospitality, retail – all battered by the virus itself and the subsequent restrictions....
The Tshwane Market and Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market is a unique commerce centre, where prices are formed and fresh produce is traded to the mutual benefit of suppliers, buyers and consumers. Produce is procured from producers country-wide,...
In July 2017, Henry Shaw, Operations Manager at Winelands Pork, told Enterprise Africa that the expert abattoir and sales business was relentlessly driving a quality focus across the industry by adopting the Pork 360 accreditation – an initiative...
The De Keur legacy began in fairly unassuming fashion in the Ceres Valley, when Charl ‘Tippie’ du Toit acquired the De Keur farm in the Koue Bokkeveld mountain range in the Western Cape. With the site snapped up for the princely sum of £9,600 at a...
In Kariega (Uitenhage), Eastern Cape a local business is thriving by creating and nurturing long-lasting relationships with clients. While most claim to know their customers, Afri-Save Cash & Carry – a company with two decades of knowledge –...
For more than half a century, Makro has been bringing convenience and affordability to local households and businesses, growing in these 50 years to one of South Africa’s most important wholesale retail outlets and adding a further 21 stores to its...
As the often-unnoticed partner behind some of Southern Africa’s most successful retail and FMCG businesses, Spinnaker Software is helping clients to thrive and optimise in a quickly changing market that requires a nimble approach combined with a...
Nando’s continues to dominate the takeout or quick service food market in South Africa in terms of creativity, innovation, and imagination. Since its establishment 35 years ago, the company has striven for differentiation through originality and...