About
County Fair Foods (Pty) Ltd was founded in 1964 by Mr Desmond Lurie. Mr Lurie was a skilful entrepreneur, as well as a friendly and well-respected businessman. The business grew respectively from a small start in 1964, slaughtering 3000 chickens per week to currently slaughtering 1.2 million chickens per week in 2006.
Mr Desmond Lurie sold out to Tiger Oats in 1987, who remained the owners of County Fair Foods (Pty) Ltd until 2001 when, after an unbundling exercise, County Fair became a division of Astral Operations Limited.
Today County Fair, a division of Astral Operations Ltd is a fully integrated poultry producing company of parent rearing, laying, hatching, broiler farms, abattoir and fresh and frozen distribution facilities.
County Fair currently employs in excess of 2000 people and has an annual turnover of R1.2 billion per annum. The County Fair range of products consists of bone in fresh and frozen chicken portions, IQF and a comprehensive value added range.
The company is the leading supplier of fresh chicken in the Western Cape, with IQF and value added products being distributed nationally and internationally.
