Business overview
Group profile
Tiger Brands is Africa's leading manufacturer and distributer of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG).
| Grains | Consumer brands – food | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revenue R12,8 billion* Operating income R1,9 billion* |
Revenue R9,7 billion* Operating income R828 million* |
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Market share: Nielsen volume share 12 month moving as at September 2018
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Revenue R2,2 billion* Operating income R341 million* |
Revenue R3,8 billion* Operating income R270 million* * From continuing operations. |
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Our core business is providing everyday branded food to large and growing emerging markets through a unified customer sales team and integrated supply chain that leverages the group’s scale. We target best-in-class profitability, underpinned by a cost-conscious culture as well as environmental, social and governance principles to drive shared value creation. We have leading positions in most categories and our iconic brands are well-entrenched with consumers in South Africa, as illustrated by the percentage share of market.
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Tiger Brands is active in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) largest consumer markets, and well positioned in large attractive categories. Beyond our core market, South Africa, we have built a sizeable exports business for our products throughout Africa, and we have operations in Nigeria and Cameroon. The Africa strategy approved this year builds on our core competencies and existing markets.
SSA’s largest consumer markets
SSA packaged food and soft drinks market (Total market size $84 billion, RSV)

Well positioned in large, attractive categories
SSA market by fastest-growing categories (Total market size $84 billion RSV)

Source: Euromonitor data; Top 15 categories of packaged food & soft drinks by market size; All SSA countries; RSV – Retail sales value
Our success is underpinned by the strength of our brands and continuous improvement initiatives. We invest significantly in our core brands, backed by consumer and shopper research that provides comprehensive insights into our chosen categories and markets. We also hold meaningful minority interests in associate companies.
- South Africa: JSE-listed Oceana Group Limited (42,1%) (fishing)
- Chile: Empresas Carozzí (24,4%) (FMCG)
- Nigeria: UAC Foods Limited (49,0%) (FMCG)
- Zimbabwe: JSE-listed National Foods Holdings Limited
(37,4%) (FMCG)




