N&B Crocodile Farm breeds crocodiles for skins and meat for export.The farm consists of 45 breeders being 5 male and 40 female all over 15 years old. These are kept in a large fenced breeding dam with strategically placed sandpits for egg laying.Nearing September when laying takes place these sandpits are moistened daily, raked each evening and monitored for any signs of digging. If there is any disturbance in the sand, the area is checked for eggs.When eggs are found they are placed in kaylite boxes in vermiculite and the boxes are packed into the incubator, which is kept at 34 degrees. An average of 35 eggs per female are laid with approximately 1400 eggs being collected. Some will be infertile and others rejected for various reasons.Each box is clearly labelled with the date of lay and the period of incubation is roughly 90 days. About 3 days before the due period, which is in December, the boxes are monitored for hatching. The crocodiles make a chirping sound when hatching and are then removed from the incubator boxes and placed on dry sand for 24 hours. They are then moved to hatchling pens in enclosed tunnels where the water is warmed during the winter months to promote growth. The hatchlings are fed on minced meat and liver and, together with the breeders and growers, consume approximately 700 kilograms of meat per week. At one year old the crocodile growers are transferred to open concrete pens where they grow out to approximately 1.5 metres in 2 years before being slaughtered for their belly skins and meat for export.Our annual slaughter is approximately 900 animals done during April, May and June each year. Diseases such as brown spot are more prevalent during the summer months, Sept to March. Our Manager, Felix Makaza, and his staff of ten run the farm.N&B Sugar EstatesThe N&B Sugar Estate has a quota to produce 10,500 tonnes of sugar cane and a water allocation of 1 3/4 cusecs.The farm employs 60 people who are housed, with their families, on the farm in two bedroom brick under iron houses. The staff have their own beerhall and entertainment area and a clinic.

Cairns Foodstuff Ltd. is a specialized ingredients and foodstuff supplier. Since the establishment, our business has been powerfully expanded and our products have been launched into supermarkets, variety stores, fast food stores, restaurants and wholesale markets throughout Zimbabwe. We are dedicated to supplying a variety of quality foodstuff items like sauces, juices, corn flakes which have earned high praise from consumers. Cairns Foodstuff Ltd. aims at being a partner rather than just a supplier. That is why, in addition to its wide range of standard multi-purpose products, Cairns Foodstuff Ltd. also supplies personalised solutions tailored to meet specific customer needs. 

Established in 1920, National Foods is a diversified, Zimbabwe Stock Exchange listed conglomerate, which has grown to be one of the largest manufacturer and marketer of food products in Zimbabwe and the Southern African region. Our four flagship brands: Gloria, Red Seal, NF Stockfeeds and Natpak are easily recognizable on the Zimbabwean marketplace.Our manufacturing plants and allied processes are strategically located throughout Zimbabwe and are based on a quality system designed to guarantee supply of high quality and value added products. The Group’s quality policy is to manufacture and market, at all times, brands that are competitive and satisfy customer expectations in line with our vision to be "The Supplier of Choice"National Foods’ focus is to enhance stakeholder value through the development and implementation of innovative, measurable and time bound strategies. The Group has a vibrant corporate social investment programme. Through our network of depots, we undertake several community centered social responsibility activities especially designed to improve the quality of life of the underprivileged and the elderly. As we celebrate over 87 years in business, we continue with our commitment to the relentless pursuit and delivery of high quality, value added brands to consumers  in line with our mission:‘To be the preferred supplier of quality branded products and services which satisfy the needs of our customers and consumers’.NATIONAL FOODS - THE NATIONAL RECIPEThe history of National Foods Ltd is the history of milling in Zimbabwe. National Foods embodies eighty six years of milling experience. Today the company provides the resources, technology and manpower necessary to feed millions of people. In addition to our maize milling operations we also market a wide range of food products including flour, sugar beans, oat meal, rice and salt as well as a variety of pre-packed items, canned products and stockfeeds.A sophisticated sorghum and barley malting plant provides malts for local brewers, whilst the oil plant supplies the market with the Red Seal and Home Pride brands of cooking oil. In addition to substantial supplies of basic foodstuffs, the company also supplies the donor community with toll milling services.Because of our size, we are able to maintain complete flexibility in fulfilling the requirements of our numerous customers including manufacturing and packaging to client specifications. National Foods employs over 2 500 people, all of them dedicated to producing top quality food products. The company provides numerous benefits such as pension and insurance schemes, annual bonuses, long service awards, educational scholarships and subsidised canteen facilities as well as a Worker's Trust which enables the Group's workers to participate in the profits and ownership of the business.To maintain its diverse operations National Foods has in place the necessary support mechanism including workshops, bakery schools, laboratories, clinics, technical consultants and a comprehensive human resources division. The changes in the market place dictated a cultural shift from a production driven to a marketing driven operation and this is supported by a series of professional development programmes, which have equipped both management and staff with the necessary skills to tackle any business challenges which may lie ahead and to adapt to change which is the only constant in today's highly competitive environment.National Foods also actively pursues export opportunities and agricultural seasons enabling many of its products help to meet the increasing dietary needs of Zimbabwe's neighbours.  Substantial supplies of basic foodstuffs have been provided to donor agencies while toil milling to over 75 000 tonnes of maize on behalf of the United Nation's World Food Programme has been done. The company is also supplying other non-governmental organisation such as the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society with grain for its hunger alleviation projects. Food packs of rice, salt, beans and oil are also prepared for continental-wide distribution.In its quest to add value to its product range, the Company works closely with organisations in all walks of life applying its first-world capabilities.QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMSHazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)Producing safe, highest quality products for our consumers together with rigorous implementation of the underlying food safety legislation, is the foundation on which the high reputation of NFL name and brands are built.To enhance its reputation as The Supplier of Quality Branded food products, National Foods is currently implementing the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point quality management system. This is a food hygiene and safety management system which gives our customers the assurance that the food they buy and consume is safe and of high quality.Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)All NFL products are produced in line with the stringent requirements of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) which ensures that products are consistently produced and controlled to the quality standards appropriate to their intended use and as required by all stakeholders.GMP covers all aspects of the manufacturing process  defined manufacturing process, validated critical manufacturing steps, suitable premises, storage, transport, qualified and trained production and quality control personnel, adequate laboratory facilities, approved written procedures and instructions, records to show all steps of defined procedures taken, full traceability of a product through batch processing records and distribution records, and systems for recall and investigation of complaints.Total Quality Management- Our Guiding PrincipleThe guiding principle is that quality is built into a product, and not just tested into a finished product. Therefore, the assurance is that the product not only meets the final specifications, but that it has been made by the same procedures under the same conditions each and every time it is made.This involves controlling the quality of the facility and its systems, controlling the quality of the starting materials, controlling the quality of production at all stages, controlling the quality of the testing of the product, controlling the identity of materials by adequate labeling and segregation, controlling the quality of materials and product by adequate storage, etc.All of these controls must follow prescribed, formal, approved procedures, written as protocols and /or SOPs, describing all the tasks carried out in an entire manufacturing and control process.

Innscor Snack Foods Division which comprises of Zap Nax, Iris Biscuits and Kinsfolk was launched in 2005 under the Innscor Manufacturing Division. Snack Foods division has expanded its operations since then to include two new brands, Dixy Dragon Puffs and Zap Nax Corn Curves which both produce corn puffs available in cheese, chicken, salted, fruit chutney and spicy tomato flavours.The division also produces a range of products for inter company divisions as well as third parties.The Zap Nax factory produces the National Foods Red Seal Corn Curves and the Red Seal Ma Zappy snacks.The Iris factory produces the National Foods Gloria Biscuits, Spar Savemor plain biscuits, the OK Pot 'O' Gold loose biscuits and the OK Value loose biscuits.The Kinsfolk factory produces a variety of pies for the Bakers Inn stores and selected Bon Marche and OK in-store bakeries and also supplies various third party retail supermarkets with the high end Tascali range of par baked pies.StaffThe combined staff compliment of the division is approximately 430 hard working employees who are highly motivated in ensuring that the division realises its end goals. The equipment used in these factories ensures the output of high quality products and each factory is supported by a dedicated and skilled maintenance team that is always on stand by. FactoriesThe factories operate 24 hours a day and are split into three 8 hour shifts. Only the highest quality raw materials are used in the manufacturing of our products, while still maintaining selling prices that provide consumers with value for money. That is why our products contest well against competitors within their respective markets. CommunitySnack Foods is also involved in ploughing back into the community by sponsoring various sporting activities such as the "Hoops 4 Hope" program that co-ordinates basketball workshops for children in high density suburbs in and around Harare and Bulawayo.

Dairibord Holdings is a leading producer and marketer of dairy, food and beverage products both for the domestic market as well as the export market. Dairibord Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd. is one of the region's biggest food and dairy companies. As a group produces an extensive range of dairy products, beverages, ice crams, cordials. Condiments, sauces and spreads, which are marketed locally and abroad. It has a turnover of approximately Z$107 billion and exports to Malawi, Botswana, DRC, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia, Angola, Republic of South Africa, Burundi, Tanzania, Mauritius.Dairibord Holdings Limited was incorporated in July 1994 following the change in the legal status under the government's Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), of the Dairy Marketing Board (DMB) from a parastatal to a Commercial Company. Public Health Breastmilk Substitutes And Infant Nutrition Regulations