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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.

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286Companies
6,546Contacts tracked
1,196Verified emails
143Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest food packaging companies based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 286 food packaging companies based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to food packaging companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceGauteng, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,000294 contacts →

“The paper division manufactures recycled-based packaging and industrial paper grades such as containerboard and cartonboard.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,000258 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, 2026
3Partial evidencePaarl, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500230 contacts →

“Industry puts HG Molenaar’s first for its complete turnkey and standalone packaging needs.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Indirect evidenceRustenburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026n/a177 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Partial evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,000161 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, 2026
6Partial evidenceEthekwini, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000155 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, 2026
7Partial evidenceLenasia Ext. 10, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500154 contacts →

“Koogan Plastics is a South African plastics and packaging manufacturer, based in Lenasia, Johannesburg.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Partial evidenceMaxmead, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,000151 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, 2026
9Partial evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,000131 contacts →

“The packaging leaders in the corrugate industry for over 60 years.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Indirect evidenceWorcester, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000131 contacts →

“APL Cartons (Pty) Ltd is a successful, profitable, privately owned company.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500106 contacts →

“PackSolve is one of the largest, black-owned, diversified industrial packaging groups in the Southern African region.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20099 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, 2026
13Partial evidencePinetown, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,00089 contacts →

“KELPACK MANUFACTURING is a contract food manufacturer and packer based in KZN”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Strong evidencePinetown, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50081 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, 2026
15Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50079 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, 2026
16Partial evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50073 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, 2026
17Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,00061 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, 2026
18Partial evidencePinetown, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50058 contacts →

“Verigreen supplies high quality branded and private label products for the household and food service sectors.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50046 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, 2026
20Indirect evidencePretoria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20046 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, 2026
21Indirect evidenceSprings, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026n/a45 contacts →
Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Strong evidenceAlrode, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50041 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, 2026
23Partial evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50041 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, 2026
24Partial evidenceSpartan, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20040 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, 2026
25Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50040 contacts →

“Sprint Packaging offers a comprehensive range of light packaging solutions for the retail and food services industry.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Food packaging companies based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
18.3%Verified-email coverage
2.2%Mobile-number coverage
22.9Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
17.1%Largest-city concentration · Cape Town
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
79
11-50
101
51-200
57
201-500
34
501-1,000
8
1,001-5,000
7

Freshness & accuracy

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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
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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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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.