As an independent family-owned business the Kit Kat Group has seen great evolution over the past 50 years and even more in the most recent decade.

Founded in 1953 by members of the Gani family, this independent wholesaler and retailer started off as the Kit Kat Café and Restaurant. Over the years, the well-established business grew in success as the café was converted into a self-service supermarket in 1973 and is still currently growing from strength to strength.

Kit Kat has been able to successfully expand their store footprint around Gauteng Allowing for the expansion of their brand and stores into Limpopo through their Kit Kat Express model at the end of 2021.

Kit Kat is amongst the very few independent wholesalers to have an effective and functioning fully operating online store that caters to all shoppers.

An interesting development resulted in Kit Kat partnering with Food Lovers Market to drive growth and success with the Fresh division of their business.

 

McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in South Africa in November 1995 making this year our 30th year of legacy. Today, we operate over 400 restaurants in all nine of South Africa’s provinces and serve an estimated 8 million customers a month.

The Pick n Pay Group is a leading South African retail business in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. Founded in 1967, 

Pick n Pay has built a strong legacy of serving customers with quality, affordability, and service excellence.

 

Headquartered in Cape Town and listed on the JSE, the Group operates through two core brands: Pick n Pay - a multi-format

retail brand serving middle to higher-income customers; and Boxer a limited-range, discount supermarket chain focused on the 

lower-income market, in which the Group holds a 65.6% majority stake.

 

With over 2,000 stores across South Africa and several other southern African countries, the Group’s retail formats include 

hypermarkets, supermarkets, clothing stores, liquor outlets, a growing online platform, and Pick n Pay asap! its on-demand delivery service.

 

Through its customer-first strategy, strong private label offering, and continued investment in price and innovation, 

the Pick n Pay Group is committed to delivering unbeatable value, improving access to essential goods, and supporting economic inclusion 

across the region.

Maude Modise is the Enterprise and Government relations Executive at the Shoprite Group and heads up Shoprite Next Capital, a business division dedicated to developing and growing commercially viable Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMMEs). Furthering the Group’s continued effort to give small suppliers access to its consumer market, Shoprite Next Capital – under Modise’s leadership – operates as a one-stop shop for SMME partners by providing marketing opportunities, working capital assistance, data sharing, product range and geographic expansion, as well as possible private label partnerships. Modise, who grew up in Mabopane near Pretoria, obtained a BCom Accounting at North-West University, after which she joined the Group’s graduate programme as a trainee accountant in 2014. Her roles have included Financial Manager at Shoprite’s Distribution Centre in Johannesburg and Divisional Financial Manager for USave Gauteng. Combining her education, skills and previous roles in finance with Modise’s extensive experience mentoring of young graduates, she now brings new impetus to the Group’s development of small and medium businesses to give them access to market, to increase local procurement and to create jobs.

Chabi’s Ginger delivers a specialised powder product that gives you the taste of homemade gemere with only the addition of cold water.

Each batch is expertly blended and conveniently available to add flavour to your event.

In modern days, it’s not easy to make big drums of gemere through an overnight process of many steps, so Chabi’s Ginger helps the modern makoti keep the traditions alive. From South Africa to Sudan, the Cameroon to the Caribbean, ginger beer is a staple in the African diaspora and beyond!

Chabi’s Ginger’s Chabi’s Ginger’s vision is to share this gift, a taste of home. For years, Gemere Ginger Drink has been the hallmark of our family gatherings. Our mission is to craft amazing gemere for family and community events across South Africa.

Mitas Corporation is a leading global provider of marking, identification, traceability, automation, inspection and authentication systems. The company’s name reflects its core offerings—Marking, Identification, Traceability, Automation, and Systems/Solutions—and it operates through a portfolio of fully owned divisions and strategic partner businesses that deliver end‑to‑end, bespoke solutions. 

 

Mitas Corporation supports manufacturers and non‑manufacturing sectors alike with advanced technologies for product marking, asset management, brand protection, and supply‑chain visibility. 

 

Our solutions range from high‑temperature metal marking and ultra‑fast production‑line coding to covert and forensic anti‑counterfeit systems, enabling unit‑level traceability across industries. With capabilities spanning everything from red‑hot steel billets to items stored in liquid nitrogen, Mitas is known as an ultimate industry solutions provider, committed to innovation, reliability, and global traceability excellence.