Bakers Limited, commonly known as Bakers, is a South African food manufacturing company that produces a wide variety of savoury and sweet biscuits.
Bakers is part of National Brands Limited, an FMCG company which is a subsidiary of South African holding company AVI Limited.[2] Bakers products are manufactured in Durban, Pretoria, and Johannesburg.[3][1]
History
The company commenced when John Frederick Baumann migrated from England to South Africa, where in 1851 at the age of 26 he established a grocery and bread bakery in Durban, in the British Colony of Natal (now a province of South Africa).
In 1879, Baumann visited London where he met with his nephew, John Michael Leonard Baumann, suggesting he emigrate to South Africa. J. M. L. Baumann had previously left his native village in