Simba is a popular potato chip manufacturer and has been producing its products in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 since 1956, when it was established by the Greyvenstein family http://www.simba.co.za/Brands/frame_simba.htm

Having successfully marketed Ouma's Rusks in the 1940s and 1950s, by 1955 the Greyvenstein family were looking for ways to diversify their family business. In that year, Leon Greyvenstein travelled to a food fair in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 in search of ideas and met a man called Herman Lay – the co-founder of Frito-Lay

Frito-Lay

Frito-Lay North America is the division of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets and sells corn chips, potato chips and other snack foods. The primary snack food brands produced under the Frito-Lay name include Fritos corn chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips,...

, the largest chip company in the world. The two men struck up a friendship, and Leon travelled on to the USA where he saw a potato chip factory in action.

Simba is presently wholly owned by PepsiCo

PepsiCo

PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

, and is the local producer of many of that company's Frito-Lay brands.

Products

• Ghost Pops
• Nik Naks
• Lays
• Cheese Puffs
• Various Flavours , Tomato,Chutney etc.
• Doritos