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Bidvest Group

South African holding company

Bidvest Group is a South African multinational services, trading, and distribution company. Founded in 1988 and listed on the JSE, Bidvest is headquartered in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The group operates over 250 businesses across South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Spain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1988Founded1
  • Industryholding company1
  • HeadquartersJohannesburg1
  • Websitewww.bidvest.com
  • Legal formpublic company1
  • Listed onAustralian Securities Exchange, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange1
  • LEI5299002ARE4TRMIRGM723
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered address2ND FLOOR BIDVEST HOUSE, 18 CRESCENT ROAD, 2196 Johannesburg, South Africa3
  • Registered withCompanies and Intellectual Property Commission, 1946/021180/063

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Bidvest Bank HQ
Photo: TapticInfo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Bidvest Group is a South African multinational services, trading, and distribution company. Founded in 1988 and listed on the JSE, Bidvest is headquartered in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The group operates over 250 businesses across South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Spain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.2

Corporate structure

Bidvest Group sits at the top of its group. 5 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Bidvest Group Johannesburg, South Africa

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Bidvest Group reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Bidvest was founded in 1988 by Brian Joffe, and listed on the JSE Limited in 1990. The Bidvest Group Limited has a corporate office in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A plan, first developed in 2012 and coming to fruition in 2016, saw the conglomerate unbundle its businesses. It split into a number of different businesses and sold off some others. One of the biggest was the separating of the Bidvest Food Services into a new listed company named Bidcorp that would focus on the food production and distribution businesses.

In 2017, Bidvest Group employed over 132,000 people.

In December 2024, Bidvest Group sold subsidiary Bidvest Bank to Access Bank South Africa, a local subsidiary of Nigerian banking group Access Bank. The deal had a total value of R2.8 billion.

From Wikipedia’s article on Bidvest Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

Operations

Bidvest operates through two principal segments – business services and trading and distribution. These encompass businesses involved in outsourced services; freight management; industrial and consumer products; office products; and automotive retailing, among others. Bidvest's portfolio includes six principal divisions; Services South Africa, Services International, Freight, Branded Products, Commercial Products, and Automotive.

Subsidiaries

As of 2026, major companies that form part of Bidvest Group include:

From Wikipedia’s article on Bidvest Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1988Founded Founded1

Sources

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