Famous Brands and South Africa's industry body for potatoes have said the country will have enough supply and raw materials to produce slap chips, despite claims that there may be a looming shortage.
Famous Brands, which owns Steers, Wimpy, and Fishaways, has said South Africa would not face a shortage of frozen chips.A local import-export business warned of a potential shortage from European suppliers slapped with high tariffs. Famous Brands and South Africa's industry body for potatoes have said the country will have enough supply and raw materials to produce slap chips, despite claims that there may be a looming shortage.
"There is a slight oversupply of potatoes in the SA market for the next 12 month's forecast, and furthermore, there is chip production capacity available," Andrew Mundell, group executive for business development at Famous Brands, told Business Insider South Africa. "There is capacity in the manufacturing space in terms of the factories, [they] have enough capacity to produce it," Mundell said., a local import-export business, warned of a potential shortage of frozen chips. It said the newly imposed import duties might cause European frozen chip producers to ditch South Africa as an export destination and threaten supplies as they look for alternative markets.
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