List of Food Manufacturing Companies in South Africa

What this list is, and what it is not

This is a working list of food manufacturing companies in South Africa, built from the company entries in the Processed Food & Beverage Trade SA 2026/27 directory and then checked one by one against each company’s own website in September 2026. It is a verified selection, not an exhaustive national register. South Africa has far more food manufacturers than appear here, and a company’s absence says nothing about it.

Everything on the list below is either something the company states on its own site, or something the 2026/27 directory states. The last column tells you which, for every entry. Where the two disagree, that is recorded rather than smoothed over.

One distinction runs through the whole page. A manufacturer makes or processes goods in its own facility. That is different from a supplier who buys and resells, a distributor or marketing agent who moves someone else’s product, and a co-packer who makes to your specification. Companies in the second and third groups are covered further down, under who is not on this list, because sending a manufacturing brief to a distributor wastes a fortnight for both sides.

Jump to a category

• Red and game meat — 5 companies
• Seafood — 2 companies
• Fruit, vegetable and prepared meals — 5 companies
• Tea and botanicals — 2 companies
• Spices, herbs and condiments — 2 companies
• Oils, fats and frozen potato — 2 companies

Red and game meat

Five entries, spanning beef feedlot and abattoir operations, ostrich and game processing, and value-added portioning for food service. Note the difference between a business that runs its own abattoir and one that buys carcasses and portions them.

Seafood

Both entries are large vertically integrated groups rather than single-site processors, so capability varies by division. Ask which facility and which species before you assume a capability applies to your order.

Fruit, vegetable and prepared meals

The widest category here, running from bulk fruit concentrate and purée through canning and pickling to ready meals. Several of these businesses supply both retail brands and industrial ingredient customers, so state which you are before asking for a price.

Tea and botanicals

Worth reading the last column closely. One of these processes and extracts raw material it sources directly; the other packs and blends finished tea under licensed and own brands. Both are useful suppliers, for different jobs.

Spices, herbs and condiments

Oils, fats and frozen potato

Where they sit, by province

Production location matters for lead time, transport cost and whether you can realistically audit the site. Head office and factory are not always in the same province, and the table above says which address is which.

Who is not on this list, and why

The 2026/27 directory carries thirty-five organisations. Seventeen are on the list above because they make or process food. The rest are here, because knowing what they are saves you a misdirected enquiry.

How to shortlist from a list like this

A directory entry gets you to the right switchboard. It does not tell you whether a company can make your product. Six questions usually settle it in one call.

1. Do you manufacture this yourself, or source it? Ask it plainly. Groups often do both, in different divisions.
2. Which facility would run our product, and where is it? A head office address is not a factory address, and the answer determines your transport cost and whether you can audit.
3. What is on your certificate, and what is its scope and expiry? A certification names a site and a scope. Ask for the certificate rather than the logo.
4. What is your minimum run, and what changes at volume? Nothing on this page states minimum order quantities, because none of these companies publish them.
5. Do you do private label, and under what terms? Do not infer it. Several of these companies make only their own brands. If private label is what you need, start with contract manufacturers and co-packers.
6. Where do you already deliver? Physical location and delivery coverage are different things, and neither implies the other.

The supplier vetting checklist takes this further once you have a shortlist worth working through.

If this list is not what you needed

• Sourcing stock rather than production capacity: processed food suppliers.
• Beverage production, which has its own licensing and packaging considerations: beverage manufacturing companies.
• A product made under your own brand: contract manufacturing and co-packers.
• Still deciding which of those you need: the manufacturing hub sets out the four routes side by side.
• Background on how the sector fits together: the food and beverage industry in South Africa.

Where these entries come from

Company entries are drawn from Section 4 of Processed Food & Beverage Trade SA 2026/27, the tenth edition of our directory, published July 2026 by Malachite Publishing in association with the National Department of Agriculture, the dtic, the National Agricultural Marketing Council and Agbiz. Each company was then checked against its own website on 7 September 2026, and the last column of every table records what that check did and did not confirm.

Read Processed Food & Beverage Trade SA for what the current edition covers, including the trade statistics by product category that sit alongside these company entries.

Details change. Certifications lapse, sites close and capabilities move between facilities. Confirm anything you intend to rely on directly with the company before you commit to an order.