by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRClover began as a farmer cooperative pooling milk, listed in Johannesburg in 2010, was acquired by a consortium and delisted in 2020, and then closed or relocated plants while citing failing municipal water, electricity and road services. Its most durable...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRSouth Africa is one of the world’s largest citrus exporters, sending well over a million tonnes of oranges, lemons and soft citrus to Europe, Asia, the Middle East and increasingly the United States each season. It is also an industry where record...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRPioneer Foods was assembled in 1997 from two Cape agricultural cooperatives, built a portfolio spanning maize meal, bread, breakfast cereal and fruit juice, absorbed one of the largest competition penalties in South African history over bread...
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,...
