🇿🇦 South African brands and who owns them
Of 229 South African consumer brands tracked here, 18 (8%) are owned by companies headquartered outside South Africa, most often in France, the United States and Zimbabwe.
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229
South African brands
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18
foreign-owned · 8%
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211
domestically owned
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41
South African brand owners
Who bought the South African brands?
| Owner country | Brands | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 South African brands owned by French companies | 5 | DStv (Canal+), GOtv (Canal+), M-Net (Canal+), Showmax (Canal+), SuperSport (Canal+) |
| 🇺🇸 United States | 3 | Appletiser (Coca-Cola), Olay (Procter & Gamble), WooCommerce (Automattic) |
| 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | 3 | Castle Lite (Delta Corporation), Flying Fish (Delta Corporation), Lion Lager (Delta Corporation) |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 2 | Holdsport (Frasers Group), Impulse (Unilever) |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | 1 | Castle Lager (AB InBev) |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 1 | Debonairs Pizza (Nigeria) (UAC of Nigeria) |
| 🇹🇷 Turkey | 1 | Defy (Arçelik) |
| 🇮🇳 India | 1 | GIC Re South Africa (GIC Re) |
| 🇨🇳 China | 1 | Kwikot (Haier) |
South African companies that own brands
- TFG · 34 brands
- Shoprite Group · 19 brands
- Pepkor · 15 brands
- Truworths · 15 brands
- RCL FOODS · 14 brands
- Absa · 11 brands
- Tiger Brands · 11 brands
- Standard Bank · 10 brands
- Spur Corporation · 9 brands
- AVI · 8 brands
- Famous Brands · 8 brands
- Discovery · 7 brands
- Mr Price Group · 7 brands
- Old Mutual · 7 brands
- Lion Match Company · 7 brands
- Libstar · 6 brands
- MTN · 6 brands
- Sanlam · 6 brands
- Vodacom · 6 brands
- MultiChoice · 5 brands
- Santam · 5 brands
- Clicks Group · 4 brands
- FirstRand · 4 brands
- Nedbank · 4 brands
- Airports Company South Africa · 3 brands
- Exxaro · 3 brands
- Pick n Pay · 3 brands
- Thungela · 3 brands
- Eskom · 2 brands
- Grindrod · 2 brands
- Netcare · 2 brands
- Santova · 2 brands
- Sasol · 2 brands
- Bidvest · 2 brands
- SPAR Group · 2 brands
- Airlink · 1 brands
- LIFT · 1 brands
- Safair · 1 brands
- South African Airways · 1 brands
- Super Group · 1 brands
- Transnet · 1 brands