Being equipped with the right information and tools is the difference between short-lived success and a lucrative and exciting long-term venture.
Nature’s Delicacies Professional Services provides international suppliers and South African entrepreneurs with the information and tools they need to break into the South African retail market. We are a one stop solution for entering the South African retail trade streamlining the barrier of entry for international brands and private label suppliers looking to enter the South African market. In addition, we provide upcoming local brands and entrepreneurs with valuable insight and knowledge as well as introductions to key connections in the trade needed to supply both independents as well as major retail customers sustainably.
With over 20 years of experience in the industry and relationships with a large network of distributors and retailers in South Africa, Natures Delicacies Professional Services provides practical knowledge on how the supply chain works.
Meet Tony
With over 20 years of experience in the industry, I’m passionate about helping my clients achieve long-term success in the South African consumer goods market.
1991
Tony Symeonidis, aged 10 begins working weekends in his father's supermarket learning the retail industry he would build a career in.
2001
Tony is offered the distribution agency to roll out and supply a range of South American confectionery lines as well as various local brands into the Free State Province of South Africa. Thus begins his career supplying retailers and over the next few years he expands his basket of products and reach throughout multiple provinces in South Africa.
2010
Tony begins importing from the USA, Australia, UK and EU countries.
2013
Tony starts Nature's Delicacies and begins supplying FMCG retailers in South Africa with healthier alternative snack options.
Nature's Delicacies establishes brands – Nakd wholefoods, JCs TREK, Fruit Bowl and BEAR fruit snacks in the South African market.
Over the next 9 years Nature's Delicacies pioneers supply into this growing niche category of healthier alternatives extending nationwide supply across most major retailers to approximately 1000 outlets with a dedicated health category offered to the consumer. Further supplying overflows to neighbouring SA countries such as Namibia, Botswana and The Kingdom of Eswatini.
2021
Tony, now Managing Director of Nature's Delicacies is presented an opportunity to exit Nature's Delicacies in its distribution format after almost a decade of successful trade and growth.
2022
Tony establishes Nature's Delicacies Professional Services, a company dedicated to using his decades of experience and connections in the retail industry to link international suppliers with South African Distributors or supply chains relevant to them. Natures Delicacies Professional Services is also committed to empowering local brands and entrepreneurs with the knowledge, tools and connections needed to supply the retail trade sustainably.
Brands Tony Has Worked with
Meet Tony
With over 20 years of experience in the industry, I’m passionate about helping my clients achieve long-term success in the South African consumer goods market.
