Nico Louw (left) and Hennie Pieters (right) with Paul Farmer, Senior technologist with Marks and Spencer. Exsa marketing team members Nico Louw and Hennie Pieters attended Fruit Logistica in Berlin in April. Fruit Logistica is held annually in Berlin, Germany and is arguably the most important international fruit industry event. The event is usually held [...]

Photo Caption: Gawie Joubert (right) who won the first place in the young block division of the 2022 Hex River Valley block competition.  Over the past two decades, our growers in the Hex River region have established a tradition of excelling in the annual local table grape block competition and this year they have done [...]

Photo Caption: Jubilant Exsa growers and staff with the floating trophy and winning board.  From Left to right: Renier Neethling (Exsa Due Diligence), Jannie van Niekerk (Vaalwater Farm production manager), Gert Mans and Hennie Pieters (Exsa Marketing) with prize winner Henning Aggenbacht (production manager at Spook en Spartel). Our growers in the Olifants River region [...]

Sun World International has added several new Southern Hemisphere marketers to their licensees and Exsa has been honoured to be selected as a new marketer in South Africa. Sun World has also selected new licensees in Peru and Brazil. The new marketers have been granted rights to distribute fruit from existing and new varieties developed [...]

Exsa’s annual grower day was held recently at the Members’ Hall at De Doorns in the Hex River Valley. This is an important opportunity for Exsa to provide feedback about the previous production and marketing season, as well as to share insights, opportunities, and possible challenges about the season ahead.  The grower day was well [...]

  During August the Exsa marketing team travelled to the northern Cape to visit the Exsa growers in the region. The purpose of the visit was to meet with each of the growers, discuss the various aspects of the past harvest and marketing season and to plan for the forthcoming harvest. The team visited growers [...]

  Gert Mans of Exsa’s marketing team explained that these delicious and striking grapes were very well received in Malaysia. These these pictures were taken during promotions held in retail outlets. The ziplock carry bag also proved to be a convenient and popular packaging. The customers were also given the opportunity to taste the grapes. “The [...]

  Exsa growers in the Trawal region were amongst the top achievers in the Olifants River Table Grape Association’s annual vineyard block competition, held during December 2020. The trophy for the best young vineyard block was awarded to Henning Aggenbacht, production manager at De Vlei Boerdery’s Spook en Spartel production unit (pictured above). This was [...]

Above: Exsa Staff and growers at the Exsa Packing Materials (Exsa Pakmateriaal) Annual General Meeting. Exsa Packing Materials (Exsa Pakmateriaal) held their annual general meeting at Die Veldskoen near De Doorns on Thursday 26 November. Exsa Packing Materials is an important support service to Exsa Exports and they provide an invaluable service to the Exsa [...]

  The Exsa Board of Directors is proud to announce the appointment of our new Head of Marketing Nico Louw, who will officially be joining the Exsa team from September 2020. Nico has an established marketing career in the South African fresh produce export sector, which started in 2009 with his appointment in the logistics [...]