Why growers choose CAPAC
How you benefit from the CAPAC promise of handling your fruit with the same care and commitment as you do on your farm:
We can promptly adapt to changing grower needs and volumes. Flexible work and shift arrangements allow us to meet changing demands to ensure timeous and efficient output.
We engage directly with marketers and contribute at group level to optimize producer income through continuous communication and alignment with market opportunities. Our ability to negotiate lower cost on packing materials directly impacts grower income. We are transparent and allow the producer to see and contribute towards decisions regarding product to optimize results. We understand the interests of our producers and continuously strive to meet and exceed the expectations of producers to ensure healthy long-term relationships.
Our relationship with packhouses in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Western Cape allows for world-class benchmarking and collaboration. Additional benefits include:
- Collective bargaining with service and product providers based on economies of scale, positively impacts growers’ bottom line as financial benefits are filtered down. Lower input costs are shared back to growers, and we carry the capital burden of large volume purchases of packing material and other inputs.
- Access to centrally deployed experts in quality and compliance, technology, data-driven decision making, and new innovations explored via extensive R&D, keeps CAPAC at the forefront of global developments.
- Centrally developed Guides for Operational Excellence eases global compliance and accreditation.
Our marketing partners, your choice!
We honour the relationship you have with your marketing agent. We successfully work with the following industry giants:
CAPAC is an accredited packing partner for global citrus brand giants like ClemenGold, LemonGold and Sweet C – owned by Fruitalyst. With fruit distributed to over 40 countries, CAPAC understands the intricacies of packing a wide variety of cultivars into multiple brands, destined for numerous retail and wholesale clients – each with its own compliance and supply requirements.
Locally, the facility packs a variety of fruit and vegetables for renowned retailers like Woolworths, Freshmark and Spar, and wholesale markets and distribution centres in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Bloemfontein.
Additional benefits to growers:
- Timeous feedback to growers impacts farm-level decision making – intake QC on arrival & packout reports in 24 hours.
- Our extension officer provides real-time on-farm input that results in optimal packouts.
- Producer income optimization with marketers.
- Fast turn-around time on repacking.
- Staging of produce
- Multi-variety loading
- Multi-brand labelling, bagging, storing and release upon market demand
- We maximise the returns on the whole bin through our affiliation with fruit processors and informal traders.