Southern Africa Top 1,000 Companies List by Market Cap in August 2026

Absa Group Limited is a Banking and Financial Services company. It offers products and services across retail, business, corporate, investment and wealth banking as well as investment management and insurance. The company is a diversified financial services groups with around 38,000 employees and a presence in 12 African countries. The headquarters is in South Africa.

Absa Group Limited has 1016 branches as on 2019.

Discovery Limited is a South African founded diversified financial services organization that operates in health insurance, life insurance, long-term savings and investments, short-term and commercial insurance, banking and behaviour change programs. The headquarters is in South Africa.

As on 2020, Discovery Limited had 12,980 employees across 22 countries.

SHOPRITE HOLDINGS is Multi sector company with businesses in Retail, Food Products, Furniture, Pharmaceuticals,

As on 2022, SHOPRITE HOLDINGS had over 152,000 employees.

As on July-2022, SHOPRITE HOLDINGS has 2,989 retail stores.

Bid Corporation is a Food Service Group company and it is present in 5 continents. The headquarters is in South Africa.

As on 2022, Bid Corporation had 24,978 employees.

Employees by Country:

• Australia had 4,478 employees.
• UK had 5,916 employees.
• Europe had 7,803 employees.
• Emerging Markets had 6,713 employees.
• Corporate Division had 68 employees.

Gold mining company with headquarters is in South Africa.

Sasol is an international integrated chemicals and energy company that leverages technologies with headquarters is in South Africa. As on June 2022, Sasol has 28,630 employees working across 32 countries.