History

Company Background

Our history  starts when we were still the Dairy Marketing Board (DMB) which was state-owned parastatal. A brief summary is as given below.

Dairibord History

Dairy Marketing Board established
1952

Dairy Marketing Board established under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1951.

New Dairy Commissioned in Harare
1960

New Dairy Commissioned in Harare.

New Dairy Commissioned in Kadoma
1962

New Dairy Commissioned in Kadoma.

Chipinge Dairy Commissioning
1983

Chipinge Dairy Constructed.

Bulawayo Dairy Commissioned
1990

Bulawayo Dairy Commissioned.

DZL is Born
1994

The name of the company changed to Dairibord Zimbabwe Limited (DZL) from Dairy Marketing Board and the company was incorporated.

Dairibord Listed on ZSE
1997

Dairibord became the first state- owned company in Zimbabwe to privatize, and listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange the same year.

DZL acquires Lyons
2001

In June 2001, DZL acquired 100% ownership of Lyons Zimbabwe business and forms a transport and Logistics company – NFB Logistics in 2003.

The birth of Dairibord Holdings
2006

The company transformed into a holding company with four subsidiaries – Dairibord Zimbabwe (Private) Limited, Lyons, Dairibord Malawi (Private) Limited and NFB Logistics (Private) Limited. The name of the holding company changed to Dairibord Holdings Limited (DHL) from Dairibord Zimbabwe Limited (DZL).

Dairibord holdings re-organises
2016

Martindale (Private) Limited and NFB Logistics (Private) Limited, which were 100% subsidiaries of Dairibord Holdings Limited until 31 December 2015, were decorporatised and their operations were transferred to Dairibord Zimbabwe (Private) Limited under the reorganisation.

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