Founded in 1958, the Plennegy Group’s roots and purpose revolve around agriculture, with its core business being that of growing food and servicing those who grow food, to feed and nourish the continent and beyond.

We aim to do ethical and sustainable business whilst ensuring that our customers, employees and the communities that we serve are taken care of. We are committed to extensive research programmes to continually develop new seeds and products, improved farming practices and the provision of superior agricultural solutions and service.

Some of our statistics:
 1,160,000 tonnes of vegetables produced per annum by commercial farmers from seed developed in our proprietary seed breeding programmes
 3,500,000 people fed per annum through our grain and potato seed production programmes 750,000 people fed per annum through our 8,500ha of commercial farming operations
 90,000,000 people nourished annually through our three key vegetable breeding programmes
 Around 3,500 people employed, including permanent employees and seasonal workers

Although our footprint extends not only across South Africa, but also into sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Europe and the USA, the heart of our business is based in KwaZulu-Natal. Our head office, as well as most of our operating companies, are based in Greytown in the KZN midlands. In Greytown alone, we have the following operations, therefore serving as one of the major private-sector employers in this small country town and surrounding districts:
 Plennegy Head Office
 Starke Ayres Research
 Mascor John Deere Head Office
 Mascor Toyota
 Pidelta Head Office (seed and crop-production, forestry and livestock)
 Kombat (premier household & agricultural pest control solutions)
 Plennegy Print (digital printing & signage solutions)
 Pennegy Aviation Hub (in-house and charter flights; non-corrosive, affordable hangarage solutions).

Further afield in KZN, we have the Triton Admin HQ in Durban, as well as Triton branches in Pietermaritzburg, Newcastle and Richards Bay; Jupidex (distribution and service of agricultural equipment) based in Pietermaritzburg; as well as Mascor John Deere branches in 11 towns across KZN; Pidelta farms based in the Umvoti, Kranskop and Winterton areas; EGT (sawmill in Crammond), and various Starke Ayres depots in KZN. Our Maritzburg Arch in Pietermaritzburg is a push from our side to help reduce urban decay by investing in inner-city infrastructure.

Each of these Plennegy Group companies not only provides employment to a large part of the communities in those towns, but also gives back to the local communities through supporting local businesses wherever they can; and sponsoring local charitable fundraisers in each of their areas.

More than 20 years ago, our company’s founder, Mr Brian Corbishley, established a school in Greytown called Wembley College, which caters for children from Grade RRRR to Grade 12. Not only does this school provide quality education for many of the children of employees of the various Plennegy Group companies based in and around Greytown, but also for the children of the local community as well. The intention of our founder in creating this school was to keep families in our small country town together for as long as possible by not having to send one’s children off to boarding school much further afield in bigger cities, as there is now high-quality private schooling available around the corner.

By ensuring that the agricultural products we sell are of the highest quality – the Rolls Royces in their respective categories – we aim to ensure that we maintain the trust of our customers; and ensure that we retain our good reputation and legitimacy for reliability.

Plennegy’s established infrastructure and grouping of industry experts ensure the quality and precision of its activities, products and services. Our competitive advantage as a professional family business – with each operating entity being part of a bigger family of operating entities – is that it strives to:
 Implement initiatives that have an affinity with its majority family-owned farmer customers
 Invest for the longer term
 Be driven by a set of values that strongly emphasise the wholesome nature of a family – ethics and people.