Colcom Foods Limited is a long established meat-processing company in

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. Colcom is Zimbabwe's leading pork producer, with a joint venture (Associated Meat Packers (AMP)) producing beef products. Colcom Foods is part of the Colcom Holdings Group, which in turn is majority owned by Innscor Africa. Both Innscor and Colcom are listed on the

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. In 2017 Innscor announced its intention to delist Colcom and offered to exchange Colcom shares belonging to minority shareholders for Innscor shares.

History

Colcom's origins are in a farmer-owned cooperative established in late 1943 in Southern Rhodesia to assist with the marketing of their pigs. The then

Cold Storage Commission The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) is a government ministry responsible for agriculture in Zimbabwe, including the management of agricultural land use, but not land reform. Dr Anxious Jongwe Masuka is the incumbent Minister of Lands, Agriculture ...

acted as their agents until 1961, when the Cooperative's first processing factory was built on the present site in Harare. In 1993 Colcom was successfully floated on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange and became a publicly quoted company. Colcom supplies wholesalers and retailers nationwide and operates its own and franchised outlets, including a Training Centre at “The Colcom Kitchen”.

Products

Colcom produces fresh pork, fresh and smoked ribs, ham, bacon, fresh and cooked sausages, pies, cold meats,

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and canned meats. In 2015 it reduced the size of its flagship product, the Colcom pork pie, leading to accusations from customers that the quality of the product had deteriorated. Colcom's parent company, Innscor, claimed in 2018 that Zimbabweans ate over 109,000 Colcom pork pies every day.

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External links

*Colcom Foods official website (https://web.archive.org/web/20180419011800/http://www.colcomfoods.com/) Food and drink companies of Zimbabwe Manufacturing companies of Zimbabwe 1961 establishments in Southern Rhodesia Companies based in Harare