Welcome to Joburg Market

The Joburg Market (formerly known as the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market) is a major centre for the marketing of fresh produce in South Africa and neighbouring countries.

The Market is the largest of its kind in the country, and in all of Africa. This remarkable market is located in City Deep, only 5km south of Johannesburg's central business district and 26km from OR Tambo International Airport.

Established on the present site in 1974, the Market is a wholly owned entity of the City of Joburg (CoJ) Municipality. Along with other CoJ-owned entities, the Joburg Market was corporatised in 2000 to enable the City to confine its interests to core activities.

Ranked no. 4 by CRF Institute as South Africa's Best Employers for 2011/12 in the Small-Sized Employers category, the Joburg Market is a commission Market where producers deliver their produce to Market Agents who then sell the produce to buyers.

The Market serves thousands of farmers from across South Africa who send their fresh produce to the Market to be traded on a daily basis via accredited Market Agents. In fact, Joburg Market is an excellent money-spinner, earning producers billions of rand each year. Currently, about 5 000 farmers make use of this distribution channel.

The large buyer base - averaging about 10 000 at any given time and comprising of retailers, wholesalers, exporters, processors, informal traders and those buying for household consumption - make the Joburg Market the ideal venue for the trade in fresh produce.

The Joburg Market has adopted a "one-stop shop" principle in City Deep, where the premises host a multitude of businesses dealing in a variety of goods other than fresh produce to be able to satisfy the needs of buyers from across southern Africa.

There is also ample parking for shoppers and security to ensure maximum safety for buyers.

Currently, the Joburg Market trades in fruit and vegetables only, but has laid plans to turn the Market into a FoodHub, selling a wide range of fresh produce including meat, poultry and fish.

The Market is currently working towards a new vision to create a 'Market of the Future' through a R300 million investment that will see the development of a modernized and sophisticated space, which will include efficient trading facilities that will not only result in improved food safety, but a more convenient, pleasant and environmentally friendly market.