◆ No public register yet
Importers in South Africa
South Africa's food and drink importers are licensed by a national authority, and that authority does not yet publish a register we can read. So there is no list of companies here — only what the trade statistics say, and what a register would add. We have written to ask.
- $4.58B
- food and drink imports 2023
- 9
- categories with a Comtrade figure
◆ What the market imports
South Africa, by category, in dollars
Annual import value per food and drink category, UN Comtrade. This is the demand; the register would say who meets it.
Cereals and bakery$1.81B
Meat and fish$687.6M
Fruit and vegetables$567.4M
Confectionery$434.9M
Sauces and seasoning$375.4M
Beverages$297.2M
Coffee, tea and cocoa$225.7M
Dairy$181.2M
Fats and oils$3.6M
◆ What a register would add
Who is licensed to sell it
In most African countries a food or drink product may not be sold until it is registered to a local company. Where the authority publishes that register, it is the importer list: name, city, products, country of manufacture. For South Africa it is not public yet. If you work for the authority, here is what inclusion means— your name on every record, and the cleaned register back.
Markets we do hold