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The company was established in 1920 and produces a broad range of basic foods including maize meal, flour, cooking oil, margarine, rice, salt, snacks, biscuits, pasta, sugar beans, baked beans, popcorn, as well as soap and a full range of animal feed.
Recently, a maize-based cereal has been added to the National Foods product portfolio.
The company’s iconic and home-grown brands Red-Seal, Pearlenta, Gloria, Mahatma, Better Buy, ZimGold, National Foods Stockfeeds, Iris, Zapnax, KING, and most recently Allegros Popticorn are distributed across the length and breadth of Zimbabwe.
The company has 2 major shareholders; Innscor Africa Limited 37,73 percent and Tiger Brands 37,45 percent. The National Foods Workers Trust, which was established in 1985 by way of a donation also owns 9,85 percent of the company.
The beneficiaries of the Trust are the National Foods Ltd non-managerial employees. The company is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.
National Foods has manufacturing sites in Harare, Bulawayo, and Mutare from which it distributes its products throughout Zimbabwe.
Online Reporter