Ambassador Foods
Food in Cape Town

Ambassador Foods was originally founded in 1990 known as Savannah Trust. Its first factory was a converted cottage on a farm on the outskirts of White River. When the business started, the initial focus was to add as much as possible value to the macadamia harvest on the farm. Soon after Savannah Trust started supplying macadamias exclusively to Woolworths, Woolworths entrust them with their full nut related snack line. In 1999 Great Cape Nut Company was established with the majority shares held by Nuts Are Us. The purpose of this business was to secure additional imported products for Nuts Are Us and to develop the local wholesale market. Nuts Are Us then started to supply the whole nut related snack range for Woolworths. Nut Trade International who were importing and selling wholesale to Nuts Are Us, mainly for the Johannesburg wholesale market, were incorporated into Nuts Are Us around During 2003 it was decided to integrate all the businesses into one. Nut Trade International was merged first in 2003 and Great Cape Nut Company followed in In 2004, shares were obtained in Global Nut Holdings which was a major supplier to Nuts Are Us. Global Nut Holdings focused on the primary processing and exports of South African peanuts and pecan nuts. Nuts Are Us was then changed to Ambassador Foods of which the company owned the local and international brand and registered names. Ambassador Foods has stringent quality control measures in place with the required backup to service the retail market. Ambassador Foods boasts an in-house quality control department, lead by an experienced, qualified food technologist. The production area is supported by a full time internal technical and maintenance team. The ability of Ambassador Foods to supply the best possible quality product is regularly audited by international bodies such as IBL and HACCP.