Bidvest Group

Bidvest Group is a South African services, trading, and distribution company that owns a diverse set of businesses.

History

Bidvest was founded in 1988 by Brian Joffe and listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1990. The Bidvest Group Limited has a corporate office in Johannesburg, South Africa., it employed approximately 132,870 people.
The Bidvest Group Limited board comprises eleven members. In March 2019 Bidvest named Executive Director Mpumi Madisa as CEO-designate. After the retirement of Lindsay Ralphs on 30 September 2020, Mpumi Madisa assumed the role of Bidvest CEO.
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 December 2024, Bidvest Group sold its subsidiary Bidvest Bank to a Nigerian banking group's local South African subsidiary Access Bank South Africa for R2.8billion.