Two Seasons Garlic Business Plan — Strategic Plan

The strategic objectives across the five seasons and the sequencing of hectares, provinces and processing.

Strategic Plan

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Where to play: programme retail and peeled food service in South Africa, with SADC as a valve. How to win: the only eight-month local window, a certified packhouse and a peeling line, assembled before followers arrive.

Where to play

How to win

Capabilities required

Management systems

SA national retail programmes (42% of volume)

Eight-month supply window; certified packhouse; provenance

Two blocks; curing and cold storage; calibre grading; QA

Programme fill-rate tracking; retailer scorecards; weekly call-off planning

Food-service peeled (23% of volume, 30% of revenue)

Shelf life and freshness that imports cannot match

Peeling line; MAP packing; distributor relationships

Shelf-life testing; micro sampling; distributor service levels

SADC export (17%)

Proximity and seasonal timing into regional shortfalls

Phytosanitary registration; agency network

Destination-level margin tracking; selective placement

Wholesale (18%)

Managed valve, not a strategy

Market-agent relationships

Weekly price monitoring against programme price

Table 27. Strategy framework: Where to Play → How to Win → Capabilities → Management Systems.

14.1 Strategic objectives and priorities, FY2027–FY2031

Priority

Objective

Measure

Target

Timing

Growth

Build planted area

Hectares

92

FY2031

Growth

Secure retail programme

Listings

2 national groups

FY2029

Product

Commission peeling line

Peeled share of revenue

30%

FY2031

Competitive

Seed-bank quality

Yield t/ha

11.8

FY2031

Operational

Packhouse certification

GFSI-benchmarked audit

Pass

FY2028 Q4

Capital

Capex discipline

Capex vs plan

Within 5%

Each year

Technology

Solar pumping

Share of irrigation energy

50%

FY2030

Financial

Profitability

EBITDA margin

30%+

FY2031

Financial

Leverage

Net debt / EBITDA

<0.5x

FY2031

Partnerships

Growers’ association; DFI engagement

Membership; co-funding discussion

Active

FY2027 onward

Table 28. Strategic objectives translated into measurable targets.

Market expansion beyond the current plan is explicitly sequenced behind evidence. If by FY2030 the company’s share exceeds 12% without measurable price pressure, a FY2032 expansion to 110 hectares is supported by the seed bank already retained. If price pressure appears, planted area is held and the strategic response shifts to value-added product. Product expansion into dehydrated garlic and certified planting-stock sales is an FY2032 decision.