Sefalana plans to bring back Delta Fresh milk

Sefalana Holdings Group plans to relaunch Delta Fresh milk and other dairy products by the end of year.

The dairy plant which was purchased July last year started production in December and is currently supplying A Star brand of milk to Sefalana stores. Presenting the results on Friday, Sefalana Group Managing Director Chandra Chauhan said Delta Dairies would be a fully-fledged beverage division later this year. “We intend to relaunch the Delta Fresh range of products later in the year. We are excited about bringing this brand back in the market, this will include full cream and low fat variant of products,” he said.

He said they want to create a multi distribution centre at the Delta Dairies Milk plant as it is a big plant. “The Delta Dairies property in Broadhurst allows us to carry out the necessary developments to the site to enable us to move the fruit juice plant to this site from Ramotswa along with any additional beverages line that we introduce,” said Chauhan.

Sefalana Group Finance Director, Mohamed Osman said they are expecting to be awarded a tender by the government to supply the milk to primary schools.“We are hopeful that we will be successful at this tender as we have prepared ourselves to supply this contract in full if awarded to us,” said Osman. He said the government demands 100 million cartons of milk per year and the plant is fully capacitated to produce that within three months.

However, the establishment of the plant has resulted in the re-employment of Delta Dairies staff who previously were unemployed as a result of liquidation. “As the business grows we look to further increase employment in the area and this will be largely driven by the increased manufacturing activity required for the supply of the government contract,” he said.