Founder and Chairman, Freddy Hirsch with son Raymond (CEO)
A Proud Heritage
The Freddy Hirsch Group is a privately owned organisation established in 1956, which has grown to become not only South Africa’s largest supplier of food ingredients, sausage casings, meat processing equipment and other sundry items to the Red Meat and Poultry sectors of the Food Industry, but across Africa and internationally into Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia.
“We promise you the best service and best quality. We dare not compromise in these two areas.”
World-Class Facilities
We are a manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing organisation which offer uniquely differentiated products and services through its highly trained Sales and Technical staff to thousands of Independent and Supermarket retails Butcheries Meat Processing Factories and Poultry Processing Factories.
Value Added Services
At Freddy Hirsch, providing value is our biggest priority. We’ll assist you with product development for flavour profiling and product formulations, and offer advice and information on food industry regulations, meat formulation costing, and cost engineering of products. Our butchers training school and customised training programmes are designed to be conducted at our customers’ sites. We also offer in-house design of CAD layouts for new facilities and optimisation of current facilities. Our team of qualified maintenance technicians is equipped to ensure the optimal running of customer operations, and assist with preventative maintenance schedules on equipment.