Delta Corporation

Delta Corporation
	Delta Corporation Logo
Trading name	Delta Corporation
Type	Private
Industry	Beverages
Founded	1898
Headquarters	Sable House, Northridge Close, Harare, Zimbabwe
Key people	Pearson Gowero, CEO ; Canaan Farirai Dube, Chairman
Parent	SABMiller
Website	www.delta.co.zw ; - Contact Phone: 263-4-883865/883872, ; - Cell : 263-712 614 652/5. ; -Corporate Affairs emails: Delta@delta.co.zw; Contact@delta.co.zw. ; -Sales email: Sales@delta.co.zw. ; -HR email: Career@delta.co.zw

Delta Corporation Limited is a Zimbabwe Stock Exchange listed integrated beverage company with a diverse portfolio of local and international brands in lager beer, traditional beer, Coca-Cola franchised sparkling and alternative non-alcoholic beverages. It has investments in associate companies whose activities are in cordials and juice drinks, wines and spirits. Delta Corporation owns 21.4% of Nampak Zimbabwe and 31% of African Distillers (Afdis).

Background

Delta was first listed in 1946 as Rhodesia Breweries Limited. Its origins, however, date back to 1898 when the country’s first brewery was established in Cameroon Street, (Salisbury) Harare, from where the brewing industry developed into a major industrial and commercial operation.

By 1950, the Company had built the Sable Brewery in Bulawayo, producing pale ale, milk stout and Sable Lager. Over the years the Company continued to expand its portfolio of businesses and diversified its brewing base. In 1978 the name was changed to Delta Corporation Limited and the company assumed the mantle of a holding company for a broad range of interests serving the mass consumer market. These included lager and sorghum beer brewing, bottling of carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks, supermarket and furniture retailing, tourism and hotels and various agro-industrial operations.

The hotel, supermarket and furniture retailing businesses were demerged from the Group in 2001 to 2002 resulting in the Group focusing on the core beverages sectors. Some supply chain related investments remained part of the Group until 2014 when the plastic packaging entity, MegaPak, was demerged. The Company has a minority shareholding in the now consolidated packaging group NamPak Zimbabwe.