Although a natural process, the ripening of an avocado is managed to perfection at Halls with the correct technical understanding both at harvest and during the ripening procedure.
The fruit is always shipped at low temperatures to hold it in a "sleeping" state throughout transportation. Depending on the customer's requirement, the fruit is then "woken up" to be delivered at the required stage of ripeness. Fruit can arrived "triggered" which then ripens through the customer's own supply chain, or is fully ripened and ready to eat. Halls has the experience and technical expertise to manage this process, ensuring an excellent eating experience.
With ripening, packing and storage facilities in South Africa, Paris, Marseille and Rotterdam, Halls can take the fruit from our carefully managed orchards all the way to our customers' doors. Our ready to eat avocados are sold under the Halls RIPE brand, packaged in a striking design to stand out on trade and supermarket shelves.
Global Leader in the Sustainable Production and Supply of Quality Fresh Produce
Nelspruit, Mpumulanga
FARMING
HALLS has a proud legacy in primary agriculture and our farms produce avocado, mandarins, macadamia and litchis. We also take pride in our farming partnerships, particularly our collaboration with Du Roi/Halls Nursery. This relationship is a cornerstone of our service offering, enabling us to support new growers with access to world-class expertise, plant material, and ongoing technical support, positioning us not just as marketers, but as partners in farming excellence.
SALES DESK
Our Commercial Team provides South African growers with a direct link to global markets.
The combined strengths of local presence with international reach connects producers and customers worldwide, providing broad market access for growers, from foodservice, to wholesale, and from informal and municipal markets to retail chains, enabling our partners' fruit to compete on the global stage.
Our commercial packhouse is more than a processing facility – it’s where we handle our own fruit as well as that of our growers.
This approach ensures that the same stringent standards and care applied to our own crops are extended to those of our partners, reinforcing a family-driven ethos of shared quality.
EXPORTS
We provide a specialised export service, offering both sea and air freight solutions to ensure fruit reaches markets in peak condition.
Our reach extends across the globe, with a constant focus on expanding into new territories to deliver South African produce to diverse customers across the world.
Ripe & Ready operations pack 363 days of the year.
The Ripe & Ready programme is designed exclusively for formal retail channels, where we meet the demands of the top-tier retail partners through consistent quality and exceprional service to ensure consumer satisfaction.
To expand seasonal and product diversity, we complement our core fruit offering with a curated selection of speciality produce:
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Early Season Cherries
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Exotic Fruits: dragon fruit, lychee, passion fruit
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Citrus
This broader portfolio allows us to meet customer demand across categories while introducing unique seasonal highlights to the market.
