About Us
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Rippers is involved in the distribution of all its manufactured lines, from the factory floor to the shelves of our customers.
Rippers head office is situated in Johannesburg, with smaller warehouses in Cape Town, handling the function of sales and distribution.
Agents are utilised in the Eastern Cape to handle sales and distribution. Rippers has a staff compliment in excess of 100 persons, situated all around the country.
All our chocolates are stored in a temperature controlled warehouse ensuring freshness and maintaining qualities of stocks.
We utilise both air conditioned and refrigerated vehicles to transport our top quality products to ensure the goods are delivered to our clients in the correct required temperatures to ensure and maintain their superior quality.
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Purpose & Drive Of Rippers Importers
- Rippers Importers CC was originally established in 1999, with the purpose of importing, marketing and distributing premium international consumer brands to the retail sector in South Africa.
- Our factory was opened in 2006 after major fluctuations in our weaking currency made it very difficult to trade profitably especially when dealing with luxury imported lines.
- The factory was called Kayleys, named after the owner’s first born son.
- The brand name Waxies was added to the brand range in the past few years.
- Our factory currently manufactures a wide range of products incorporating both seasonal and year round lines.
- All our chocolates are stored in a temperature controlled warehouse ensuring freshness and maintaining qualities of stocks.
- We utilise refrigerated and airconditioned vehicles to transport our top quality products to ensure the goods are delivered to our clients in the correct required temperatures.
- Our selection of year round items, easter, valentines, x mas, mother’s day and father’s day ranges are vast, catering for both the adult and children’s market
- We currently Export certain lines to the US, as well as to the UAE
- We manufacture a large number of products under private label for certain of the larger chain groups.
- Our mission is to produce the best quality product at all times, at affordable prices to satisfy our customers to the best of our ability
We follow a strict food safety system in our factory and are currently Intertek certified as well as kosher! We’ll soon be reclassified with a new Halal organisation too..
Our Customers
Our customers include the following;
PnP family stores, Dischem, Westpack, Tasco Sweets, Crazy Stores, CNA, Clicks, Spar group, Food lovers Market, Engen group, Sasol group, BP group, Shell group, Caltex Group, Makro group, Candilicious and many more independents
We also manufacture a range of house brands for different corporates.
Rippers has a very simplistic and yet effective channel of distribution and we are confident that we reach all our target markets.
Rippers services the South Africa retail sector such as supermarket chains, independent stores and cash and carries. The sales team is supported by drivers and merchandisers to ensure that products are delivered and merchandised timeously and professionally.