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Top 25 Food packaging companies based in South Africa
This directory lists 286 food packaging companies based in South Africa, with 6,546 business contacts and 1,196 email addresses. As of September 2026, Cape Town is the single most-represented city among the companies on the list.
Food packaging companies manufacture, convert, distribute, or design packaging used to protect, contain, label, or transport food products. This list covers companies that manufacture, convert, distribute, or design packaging intended for food products, including rigid, flexible, paper-based, and specialty formats. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 6, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest food packaging companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
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| 1 | Partial evidence | 294 contacts → | |||
“The paper division manufactures recycled-based packaging and industrial paper grades such as containerboard and cartonboard.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Strong evidence | 258 contacts → | |||
“Zibo Containers is a manufacturer of rigid plastic containers, in a range of colours, for a wide variety of requirements predominantly in the food packaging industry.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Partial evidence | 230 contacts → | |||
“Industry puts HG Molenaar’s first for its complete turnkey and standalone packaging needs.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Indirect evidence | 177 contacts → | |||
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| 5 | Partial evidence | 161 contacts → | |||
“With over five decades of experience, Bowler Packaging stands at the forefront of innovation and design in the packaging industry.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Partial evidence | 155 contacts → | |||
“Shave & Gibson’s story began in 1981 when brothers-in-law, Alan Gibson and Neville Shave, purchased a small company called Group Print & Packaging which laid the company’s…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Partial evidence | 154 contacts → | |||
“Koogan Plastics is a South African plastics and packaging manufacturer, based in Lenasia, Johannesburg.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Partial evidence | 151 contacts → | |||
“Astrapak is a specialised manufacturer of an extensive range of rigid moulded, and thermoformed plastic packaging products serving the African market.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Partial evidence | 131 contacts → | |||
“The packaging leaders in the corrugate industry for over 60 years.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Indirect evidence | 131 contacts → | |||
“APL Cartons (Pty) Ltd is a successful, profitable, privately owned company.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Partial evidence | 106 contacts → | |||
“PackSolve is one of the largest, black-owned, diversified industrial packaging groups in the Southern African region.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Partial evidence | 99 contacts → | |||
“Specialists in Folding Cartons and Package Inserts for the Healthcare (Pharmaceutical & Nutriceutical), Personal Care and Confectionery Food sectors.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Partial evidence | 89 contacts → | |||
“KELPACK MANUFACTURING is a contract food manufacturer and packer based in KZN” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Strong evidence | 81 contacts → | |||
“Packaging World is a specialist flexible packaging business that offers high quality printed flexible packaging solutions for the food, beverage, confectionery, industrial and…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Partial evidence | 79 contacts → | |||
“PRIDE-PAK PACKAGING is a company based out of 7 Schonland Theta Ext 7, JHB South, Gauteng, South Africa.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Partial evidence | 73 contacts → | |||
“Founded in 1963 in Durban, Tropic Plastic & Packaging Industry (Pty) Ltd has grown into one of South Africa’s leading manufacturers of flexible packaging.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Indirect evidence | 61 contacts → | |||
“For over twenty years we have been proudly servicing the retail, hospitality and FMCG markets throughout South Africa with a complete range of both disposable and reusable…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Partial evidence | 58 contacts → | |||
“Verigreen supplies high quality branded and private label products for the household and food service sectors.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Partial evidence | 46 contacts → | |||
“Transpaco and future packaging and machinery is an industrial packaging manufacturer and distributor, renowned for our expansive and diverse product portfolio.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Indirect evidence | 46 contacts → | |||
“BusinessPrint is a state-of-the-art printing company in Pretoria founded on honest hard work, excellence and love for print.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Indirect evidence | 45 contacts → | |||
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Strong evidence | 41 contacts → | |||
“We are customer-focused and aim to provide comprehensive packaging solutions to our customers, Our product offering has been expanded to cover all major food-related packaging…” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Partial evidence | 41 contacts → | |||
“Lufil Packaging is South Africa's leading supplier of paper bags, offering a comprehensive range of environmentally-friendly solutions.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Partial evidence | 40 contacts → | |||
“BRITEPAK is a leading manufacturer of folded cartons and packaging inserts, dedicated to serving a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and cosmetics.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Strong evidence | 40 contacts → | |||
“Sprint Packaging offers a comprehensive range of light packaging solutions for the retail and food services industry.” Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 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 packaging companies. 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 packaging companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of food packaging companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name food packaging companies. 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 packaging companies based in South Africa at a glance
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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 packaging companies, 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 packaging companies”. 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 packaging companies), 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 packaging companies, 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, 1,196 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 6, 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.
Food packaging companies by metro
- Food packaging companies in Cape Town49
- Food packaging companies in Johannesburg49
Frequently asked
How many food packaging companies are based in South Africa?
This list contains 286 food packaging companies based in South Africa.
Where are most food packaging companies located?
Cape Town is the single most-represented city among the companies on this list.
How can I find contacts at food packaging companies?
The directory includes 6,546 business contacts and 1,196 email addresses for the listed companies.
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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.
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