Dairy Farmers of South Africa (Pty) Ltd. (“DFSA”) became fully operational on 1 April 2017, initially as a full subsidiary of Clover SA (Pty) Ltd. (“Clover”) and from 1 July 2017 it is 74% owned by DFSA’s milk producers. Clover still holds a strategic shareholding of 26% in DFSA, as DFSA supplies all of Clover’s raw milk requirements. DFSA uses some of the Clover trademarks and Clover provides all essential services to DFSA such as Production, Distribution, Merchandising, and most Support Services.
DFSA's product range consists out of Fresh milk, Ultra-high temperature (“UHT”) milk, Ultra Pasteurised (“UP”) - and Steri milk, which is sold directly to the trade by DFSA, mainly still under Clover’s iconic brand and some other brands.