by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRSouth African wine has three and a half centuries of history, world-class quality at the premium end and a structural profitability crisis underneath — where most growers sell bulk wine into commodity export markets at prices that frequently do not...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRSouth African poultry producers supply the country’s dominant protein at margins so thin that a maize price rise, an electricity crisis or an avian influenza outbreak can eliminate them entirely — while fighting a permanent trade policy battle...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRTiger Brands owns many of South Africa’s best-known food brands and has been defined publicly by two catastrophes: participation in a bread price-fixing cartel affecting a staple food, and the world’s largest recorded listeriosis outbreak,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRDistell built South Africa’s dominant wine, spirits and cider business, created Savanna and Hunter’s in a cider category it largely invented locally, and was acquired by Heineken in 2023 — giving the Dutch brewer the scale and...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRSouth African Breweries built a near-monopoly at home, listed in London in 1999, spent fifteen years acquiring brewers across emerging markets to become the world’s second-largest, and was then bought by AB InBev in 2016 in the largest consumer...
