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Top 22 Food co-packers based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 58 food co-packers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 759 professional contacts across them, including 135 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers food co-packers headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 22 largest food co-packers based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “KELPACK MANUFACTURING is a contract food manufacturer and packer based in KZN” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AVI Products is a South African pet food manufacturer specialising in trusted pet food brands and large-scale contract manufacturing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sachet Manufacturers (Pty) Ltd are specialists in concept to shelf - contract packaging and manufacturing solutions in the home and personal care industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 2005, Liquid Concepts has been a trusted importer and distributor of premium food and beverage products across South Africa and Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We make fresh pesto sauces, spice pastes, dips, ready-to-use cooking sauces & plant-based soups for busy people who want to eat nourishing meals at home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Globepak (PTY) Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the USN Group of Companies, providing expert product development and manufacturing services to the leading brands in the Sports…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cape Foods is an established global supplier of quality seasoning, herbs and spices in a variety of grinders and shakers, and a reliable manufacturer and distributor of quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Peninsula Packaging, located in Cape Town, is one of 3 group companies in the Master Plastics Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Maneli Pets is a pet treat manufacturing company specialising in the production of premium pet food and pet treats for the local and export market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialising in importing and supplying only the finest quality packaging and food ingredients from all over the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Tramper Technology Group is a multinational manufacturing organisation that originated in the Netherlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Geiger & Klotzbücher (Pty) Ltd, a family-owned business since 1967 is one of Southern Africa’s leading suppliers of an exclusive range of packaging equipment and -material…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VEA Foods is a South African food manufacturer specialising in premium pies that bring together quality, convenience, and rich, homestyle flavour.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Afoodable is a privately-owned South African business with world-class vision producing quality liquid marinades and sauces for the local and export markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pumpkin Patch specialises in the production of premium quality food products to the retail, hospitality, and catering industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Miami Canners, situated in the farmlands along the Great Letaba River in the Limpopo Province of the Republic of South Africa, received its name when General Jan Smuts…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Catercorp is a privately owned, proudly South African business, that has been manufacturing products for more than 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PackMan Packing offers convenience Packing solutions for a wide range of needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Globepak (Pty) Ltd provides expert product development and manufacturing services to leading brands in the sports nutrition industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Who we are We supply a range of retailers, wholesalers, hospitality and the food industry, including exporting our produce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a leading product development innovator in the food industry and offer a comprehensive range of compounds, concentrates and sauces.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global food sourcing and manufacturing solutions Experts in private label food product development and supply Over 40 years of proven end-to-end sourcing, logistics and delivery…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: food co-packers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names food co-packers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of food co-packers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name food co-packers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Food co-packers based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 58 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among food co-packers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “food co-packers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names food co-packers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among food co-packers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 135 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names food co-packers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many food co-packers are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 58 food co-packers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Kelpack Manufacturing, headquartered in Kwazulunatal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most food co-packers?
Johannesburg leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (7) and Durban (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 135 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 58 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.