Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Packaging research firms based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 71 packaging research firms headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 542 professional contacts across them, including 136 with verified work emails. Cape Town is the largest hub.
This list covers packaging research firms 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 17, 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 packaging research firms based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sprint Packaging offers a comprehensive range of light packaging solutions for the retail and food services industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Proficient Packaging is situated in Cape Town, Western Cape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Peninsula Packaging, located in Cape Town, is one of 3 group companies in the Master Plastics Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CREATIVELY LED.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1996, West Coast Paper Traders is a privately owned South African company supplying kraft paper and packaging products to the industrial and FMCG packaging supplier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kimmo was originally founded in 2006 by Jan Vreken and has since grown to become a leading industrial packaging provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It’s simple.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Azapak, based in Paarl Western Cape, is a Paper Packaging Solutions driven Manufacturing company providing paper packaging solutions at a high quality and exceptional service…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Premier Packaging was established in February 1987, with the objective of supplying a packaging service to customers who, were either too small for the major suppliers, or were…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PackMan Packing offers convenience Packing solutions for a wide range of needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CONSUMER RESEARCH, PRODUCT TESTING, PACKAGING EVALUATION Market Instinct delivers high quality market research, specialising in product research and packaging testing for the FMCG…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fromm Packaging Solutions strives to be the industry benchmark offering tailored and flexible products, unforgettably great service and a lifelong commitment to our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bravo Design is a specialist packaging design studio based in Woodstock, Cape Town in SA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SA Label Printers (Pty) Ltd is a small to medium sized printing and packaging company based in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal servicing clients throughout South Africa and various…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Skye Packaging, a cornerstone of Bowler Packaging, is on a mission to revolutionise the packaging industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Driving Consumer Brand Growth with Strategic Packaging Design With 30 years of expertise, we are a boutique branding agency specializing in packaging design for the FMCG, personal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sealglobal.Co® is about business for good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our dedicated team has years of experience in food and retail packaging and we go the extra mile to ensure your product stands out on the shelf.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Keep It Together Manufacturers (KIT SA) specialises in manufacturing custom foam inserts/wadding, silica gel desiccants and other primary packaging for a wide range of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wrapetfill provides comprehensive solutions and services throughout the packaging supply chain on a national and international basis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Teichmann Packaging is an independent Print and Packaging consulting company based in Durban and was originally established as Montrose Packaging in 2006.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ENSURING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION THROUGH INNOVATIVE AND OPTIMAL PACKAGING SOLUTIONS Cispak was founded in the Jute and Hessian era, when Pat van der Spuy believed that personal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pac-All Packaging Solutions started as a small family-owned business in 1991 and has since become a trusted industrial packaging supplier to businesses big and small.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than 22 years industry experience and production knowledge, Crayve Presentations was started in 1998, under the banner of Wilhelm & Kling, representing two German Brands…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: packaging research firms. 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 packaging research firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of packaging research firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name packaging research firms. 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.
Showing 25 of 71 packaging research firms based in South Africa
See the full list, filter by size, metro and specialty, and get verified emails and direct dials for all 136 reachable decision-makers.
Free signup · no credit card
Packaging research firms based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 17, 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 71 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 packaging research firms, 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 “packaging research firms”. 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 packaging research firms), 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 packaging research firms, 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, 136 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 17, 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 packaging research firms, 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 packaging research firms are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 71 packaging research firms 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?
ACE Retail Solutions, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most packaging research firms?
Cape Town leads with 16 headquartered companies, followed by Johannesburg (14) and Durban (3).
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 136 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 71 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 17, 2026.
Ready to reach these companies? Verified emails and direct dials for all 71 packaging research firms based in South Africa. Start with a free account, no credit card.
Download this list →Related lists
Packaging research firms by geography
- Packaging research firms based in Mumbai, India
- Packaging research firms based in Miami, United States
- Packaging research firms based in New York, United States
- Packaging research firms based in Argentina
- Packaging research firms based in Australia
- Packaging research firms based in Austria
- Packaging research firms based in Belgium
- Packaging research firms based in Brazil
- Packaging research firms based in Canada
- Packaging research firms based in Chile
- Packaging research firms based in China
- Packaging research firms based in Colombia
Browse the directory
Browse: Companies home · All South Africa lists · All Packaging research firms lists · New lists
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.
More company lists
- All company lists
- Lists by location
- Lists A-Z
- New lists
- Packaging research firms based in Mumbai, India
- Packaging research firms based in Miami, United States
- Packaging research firms based in New York, United States
- Packaging research firms based in Argentina
- Packaging research firms based in Australia
- Packaging research firms based in Austria