Cairns Foods

Cairns Foods
Industry	Food and Beverages
Predecessor	Cairns Holdings
Headquarters	1 Upton Road Ardbennie, Harare, Zimbabwe
Key people	Workmore Chimweta CEO
Owner	Takura Capital Partners and others
Website	www.cairnsfoods.co.zw

Cairns Foods is a beverage and food farming, manufacturer and distributor. It operates in five divisions: Snacks, Groceries, Vegetables and Fruit, Beverages, and Spices. Cairsn started operations in 1947.^[1]

Products & Brands

Culinary Range

Cashel Valley - canned vegetables (sugar beans, peas), fruits (mango, peach halves, guava halves & apples) and jams.
Madras - Cooking aids like Madras Curry, Brono Gravy
Willards - Custards, Jellies, Corn Flakes, Bran Flakes
Vinegar
Sun Jam, Willards Peanut Butter.

Beverages

Cairns Foods Wines

Mukuyu Wines
Colombard blend
VAT 10 Pinot Noir
Cabernet Sauvignon
New Vineyard
Donna Bella
Altar Wine
Carimba sparkling grape drinks
Santé fruit coolers

Breakfast Ground Coffee and Cereal

Snacks

Spuds - crispy potato chips
Other Brands: Willards Thingz, Jupiters, Cheezies, Korn Kurls, Chicken Flings and Lakkernaks
Charhons Chocolates, Sweets, Athlone Biscuits, Cookies

Key Developments

Cairns was under judicial management by Grant Thornton and Camelsa’s Reggie Saruchera from November 2012 to 2015.
In August 2017, Cairns lost a $2.6 million labour case against a former employee Standford Selemani who was wrongly fired from employment 25 years ago.
In 2015, Cairns revived three defunct production lines, jolting its product output.