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Top 19 Meat processing companies based in South Africa

Name: Meat processing companies based in South Africa
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026 51 companies tracked

This directory lists 51 meat processing companies based in South Africa, with 2,045 business contacts and 503 email addresses. Cape Town is the single most-represented city among the companies listed, and the directory was updated in September 2026.

Meat processing companies slaughter, cut, trim, season, cook, preserve, or package meat for wholesale, foodservice, retail, or further manufacturing. This list covers companies that slaughter, cut, trim, season, cook, preserve, package, or otherwise prepare meat for commercial sale or use. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of September 7, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 7, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

51Companies

2,045Contacts tracked

503Verified emails

37Mobile numbers

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The 19 largest meat processing companies based in South Africa

Ranked by team size

Top 19 of 51 meat processing companies based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to meat processing 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Freddy Hirsch	Strong evidence	Maitland, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	423 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Trusted since 1956, Freddy Hirsch is a Food Technology Company focussed on the flavouring and processing of meat and plant-based “meat” products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
2	Bluff Meat Supply	Partial evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	288 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Bluff Meat Supply is a meat retail and wholesale company that offer all cuts of beef, lamb, pork and chicken including various processed meat products to our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
3	Cavalier Group	Partial evidence	Cullinan, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	197 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Cavalier Group of Companies specializes in creating the shortest and most cost effective route for red meat products from farm to fork.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
4	Frey's Food Brands	Partial evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	186 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Established 1937, Frey's offers best-in-class value as well as a truly legendary taste born from four generations of meat manufacture in the German tradition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
5	Excellent Meat	Partial evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	161 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Excellent Meat is a group of companies that offer the very best in wholesale, fresh meat and deli production, import and export, as well as retail in lamb, mutton, beef, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
6	Brito's Group	Indirect evidence	Brackenfell, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	127 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Brito's Group is a vertically integrated company which strives to offer its retail and wholesale clients optimal value through controlling the entire supply chain - from the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
7	Sparta Beef	Indirect evidence	Welkom, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1,001-5,000	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Sparta we pride ourselves in the quality beef we produce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
8	Feinschmecker Deli Meats	Partial evidence	Elsburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	29 contacts →
	Partial evidence “South Africa’s preferred manufacturer of ‘ready to eat’ processed meat products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
9	Rossouw Meat	Indirect evidence	Brits, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	27 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A family business, run on family values.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
10	Deli-Co Meat Wholesalers	Partial evidence	Riebeek Kasteel, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	23 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Today Deli-Co supplies over businesses with meat!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
11	Morgan Beef	Partial evidence	Springs, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	19 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Morgan Beef, a renowned wholesaler of quality beef cuts, stands as a beacon of quality and integrity in the meat industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
12	Gen4foods PTY LTD	Partial evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	18 contacts →
	Partial evidence “OUR COMPANY Gen4Foods has decades of expertise in both retail and manufacturing, we specialise in quality ready-to-eat meat products that satisfy diverse consumer needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
13	Ramburg Beef PTY LTD	Partial evidence	Nelspruit, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	15 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Ramburg Beef is an export approved high throughput abattoir, meat wholesaler and beef deboning plant based in Nelspruit in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
14	TIP TOP Meat Products	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	15 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Tip Top Meat Products manufactures quality and cost-effective processed meats throughout our range: from deli to the more economic products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
15	Heydenrychs Quality Meat	Partial evidence	Port Elizabeth, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	10 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We supply and manufacture a variety of South African quality fresh and processed meat products and are choice suppliers to established retailers, wholesalers, caterers and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
16	A&h Meat Wholesalers	Partial evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “First and foremost, A&H Meat prides itself as a company with integrity, offering reliable service with the customer’s business in mind.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
17	VAN Wyngaardt Deli Meat	Partial evidence	Sandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Van Wyngaardt Deli Meat was founded in 2001 and quickly became one of the leading suppliers of quality pork products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
18	Gastro Foods	Indirect evidence	Parow Industria, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026
19	Draven	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Draven is an Industrial Design and Manufacturing Company based in Cape Town, South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 7, 2026

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: meat processing 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 meat processing companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of meat processing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name meat processing 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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Meat processing companies based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 7, 2026

24.6%Verified-email coverage

1.8%Mobile-number coverage

40.1Average contacts per company

51-200Median size (employees)

13.7%Largest-city concentration · Cape Town

Sep 7, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails on this list were verified

Email last verified

4610–30

4031–60

161–90

090–180

1180+

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 meat processing 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 “meat processing 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 meat processing 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 meat processing 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, 503 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 7, 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 do meat processing companies do?

Meat processing companies prepare meat by slaughtering, cutting, trimming, seasoning, cooking, preserving, or packaging it for commercial use.

How many meat processing companies are based in South Africa?

RevenueBase counts 51 meat processing companies listed based in South Africa, with 2,045 business contacts and 503 email addresses.

Which city has the most meat processing companies?

Cape Town is the single most-represented city among the companies on this list.

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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.