Sugar

We sell a wide range of brown and refined sugar products to serve both our domestic and export customers.

Catering

Consumer

Industrial

Industrial sugar

Mainly in refined bulk form, sold primarily to soft drink, confectionery, canning and re-packing customers. Most of this sugar is sold into markets in the countries in which we operate.

Prepack sugar

Refined and brown sugar which is prepacked in paper or plastic of various pack sizes for direct consumption in domestic markets. It is sold on to retail and wholesale customers and directly to consumers through our wide network of warehouses and distribution channels. In South Africa and Malawi, prepack sugar is marketed under the “Illovo” brand name, and in Zambia and Tanzania, under the “Whitespoon” and “Bwana Sukari” brand names respectively. In Swaziland and Mozambique, sugar is marketed on behalf of producers by their respective sugar associations.

Bulk raw sugar for refining

Raw sugar which is primarily exported to sugar refineries via preferential access to EU and USA markets, or through world market sales out of South Africa.

Specialty sugars

Sugar which undergoes additional or special processing to meet our customers’ unique requirements pertaining to flavour, grain size and colour, which is exported into high-premium niche markets in the EU and USA. An increasing volume of these exports is marketed under the EU-based “Fairtrade” label with price premiums returning directly to promote agricultural development among emergent cane farmers in our own countries of operation. Relatively smaller quantities are sold into domestic markets.