New Two-a-Day solar equivalent to planting 484,380 trees.
South Africa’s Ratelberg Solar in Grabouw, owned by Two-a-Day employees, has awarded Technoserve the contract to install an additional 610kW to expand its footprint at Two-a-Day to a total 4.99MW energy provided by the sun. According to Bernhard Kotze, Commercial Manager
Tru-Cape makes Mandela Day fruit donations
In celebration of Mandela Day, the July 18 birthday anniversary of former South African president Nelson Mandela, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing joined many other South Africans in acts of service. This year, each of Tru-Cape members of staff was located a carton
Celebrating women in agriculture in August
Watch this interview with Lakeview Farm's manager, Amoré Viljoen. https://youtu.be/2mmEDyLUDQ0?t=284
Animation brings the journey of the apple to life
Recode Media, the agency of record of Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, has created a new television commercial for South Africa’s largest exporter of apples and pears using three-dimensional animation. Rochelle Hendry, Recode Creative Director and someone who has worked on the Tru-Cape
Ceres Fruit Growers adds new sorting facility increasing capacity
Ceres Fruit Growers (CFG) is one of the largest employers in the Witzenberg Valley, with a daily apple and pear packing capacity of 886 tons. The company has 134 cold rooms which can store 180 000 bins in Controlled Atmosphere (CA)
Farmer’s Weekly covers winning strategies of Langkloof growers.
Tru-Cape’s Langkloof growers have been featured in Farmer’s Weekly Magazine on-line which you can read here and that story has recently been re-published across the community newspapers such as The George Herald and The Oudtshoorn Courant, as below, and others.
A lifelong love of animals and trees
Although not the first female farm manager, Amoré Viljoen, farm manager at Lakeview Farm in Villiersdorp since 2020, is among only a tiny percentage of women in senior on-farm positions. “I think women may look at things differently, have an eye
Tru-Cape and Food Lover’s present cheque for two million meals
Food Lover’s Market and partners are delighted to announce that they have collected a record number of 2,515,203 meals during the May Hunger Month campaign. On Tuesday, 14 June 2022, Andrew Millson, (Food Lover's Market Head of HR and Sustainability),
New programme to enrich family-life and support trauma victims.
The largest employer in the greater Elgin, Grabouw, Vyeboom and Villiersdorp region is apple and pear processor, Two-a-Day, a business wholly owned by fruit growers in the area. With more than 2000 people on staff, managing the human resource is
The father of Pink Lady® apples falls from the tree of life.
As tributes pour in to the life of John Cripps, a preeminent apple breeder responsible for two of the most successful trademarked varieties, Pink Lady® and JOYA®, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing’s New Varietal Expert, Buks Nel, paused for some personal recollections. “I
