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Ceres Fruit Juices
Company typePrivate[1]
IndustryFruit Juice
Founded1986
Headquarters,
Area served
South Africa, Europe, North America, Asia
Key people
Pieter Hanekom (CEO)
M. J. Truter (CFO)
W. Botha (Technical Executive)
L. J. Green (Operations Executive)
T. Naidoo (Legal Executive)[2]
ProductsCeres Fruit Juices, Liqui-Fruit, Superfruit, Caribbean, Daly’s, Wild Island and Squeeza[1]
ParentPioneer Foods
Websitewww.ceres.co.za

Ceres Fruit Juices Pty Ltd, trading as The Ceres Beverage Company, is a beverage company based in Paarl, South Africa. It produces fruit juice and other fruit based products and is a subsidiary of Pioneer Foods.

Ceres advertises their products being made from 100% fruit juice without preservatives. They are manufactured using aseptic processing. The products are widely sold in Africa and imported to over 80 countries in areas including North America, Europe, and Asia. The United States is one of their largest markets.

The company is named after the town of Ceres in the Western Cape, South Africa where it was first founded in 1986. The Ceres valley is an important fruit growing region in southern Africa, particularly for apples, pears and stone fruits.

Products

Ceres products sold under the Ceres brand name include:

  • Ceres 100% Juice (22 flavors available in various carton sizes)
  • Ceres Junior Juice (5 flavors with added vitamins, aimed at children)
  • Ceres Sparkling (3 flavors available in cans and glass bottles of various sizes)
  • Ceres Delight (5 flavors in cartons available for export only)
  • Ceres Fruit Tea (3 flavors of still iced fruit tea blended with 20% fruit juice available for export only)
  • Ceres Spring Water (still and sparkling water in a variety of plastic bottle sizes)
  • Ceres Squash Concentrate (4 flavors in plastic bottles)
  • Ceres Nectar Concentrate (5 flavors in plastic bottles)
Ceres juice cartons.

References

  1. ^ a b "Ceres company history". Ceres Fruit Juice. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Ceres Fruit Juices (Pty) Ltd". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 29 January 2011.

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