Ceres Fruit Juices

Ceres Fruit Juices Pty Ltd, trading as The Ceres Beverage Company, is a beverage company based in Paarl, South Africa. It produces fruit juice and other fruit based products and is a subsidiary of Pioneer Foods.

Ceres Fruit Juices
TypePrivate[1]
IndustryFruit Juice
Founded1986
Headquarters
Paarl
,
South Africa
Area served
South Africa, Europe, North America, Asia
Key people
Pieter Hanekom (CEO)
M. J. Truter (CFO)
W. Botha (Technical Executive)
L. J. Green (Operations Executive)
T. Naidoo (Legal Executive)[2]
ProductsCeres Fruit Juices, Liqui-Fruit, Superfruit, Caribbean, Daly’s, Wild Island and Squeeza[1]
ParentPioneer Foods
Websitewww.ceres.co.za

Ceres advertises their products being made from 100% fruit juice without preservatives. They are manufactured using aseptic processing. The products are widely sold in Africa and imported to over 80 countries in areas including North America, Europe, and Asia. The United States is one of their largest markets where it is a widely recognised brand of fruit juice.[3]

The company is named after the town of Ceres in the Western Cape, South Africa where it was founded in 1986 by local fruit farmers as a way to add value and expand the market for their produce. The Ceres valley is an important fruit growing region in southern Africa, particularly for apples, pears and stone fruits. Ceres became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Cape Town based Pioneer Foods in 2004.[4]

Products

Ceres products sold under the Ceres brand name include:

  • Ceres 100% Juice (22 flavors available in various carton sizes)
  • Ceres Junior Juice (5 flavors with added vitamins, aimed at children)
  • Ceres Sparkling (3 flavors available in cans and glass bottles of various sizes)
  • Ceres Delight (5 flavors in cartons available for export only)
  • Ceres Fruit Tea (3 flavors of still iced fruit tea blended with 20% fruit juice available for export only)
  • Ceres Spring Water (still and sparkling water in a variety of plastic bottle sizes)
  • Ceres Squash Concentrate (4 flavors in plastic bottles)
  • Ceres Nectar Concentrate (5 flavors in plastic bottles)
Two fruit juice flavours of Ceres juice in the brand's distinctive white octagonal cartons. The use of white negative space backgrounds with the simple Ceres logo and font prominently displayed has been a consistent design feature of the brand since it was founded in the 1980s.

References
  1. "Ceres company history". Ceres Fruit Juice. Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  2. "Ceres Fruit Juices (Pty) Ltd". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  3. "Love 'em Or Hate 'em, Litchis Are South Africa's Newest Export To U.S." 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
  4. "At Our Core | Ceres". ceres.co.za. Archived from the original on 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
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