Rudy and two Mbombela SUPERSPARs are butchery industry Titans
There have been a total of 21 awards won between the two SUPERSPARs over the past two decades.
Local retail legend Rudy Oosthuyse was recently handed a prestigious award at the 2024 Best Business Cleaver Awards, honouring 20 years of excellence in the butchery industry.
The 20th annual Best Business Cleaver Awards took place from October 23 to 25, recognising the best butchers across South Africa who exemplify excellence in customer service, product quality and business innovation. Each year, these awards recognise those butchers who go above and beyond to provide exceptional service and quality products to their customers.
This year’s recipients of the Titans Trophy not only represent the pinnacle of South African butcheries, but also continue to set new standards for service and innovation. The awards underscore the essential role butchers play in providing high-quality products, while maintaining traditional skills and forward-thinking practices.
The 2024 event marked two decades of celebrating the country’s top talent in the meat industry. In recognition of the 20th anniversary, the organisers sought to hand out special Titans trophies in recognition of their status as the best of the best from the past two decades of the awards.
One of these was none other than Mbombela’s Rudy Oosthuyse, who represented both Crossing SUPERSPAR and The Grove SUPERSPAR at the awards ceremony. Between the butcheries at these two SUPERSPAR stores, they have won a total of 21 Cleaver Awards over the past two decades.
This ranks them among the top achievers in the Cleaver Awards right across the country. In honour of this, they were handed a Best Business Titan Award at this year’s Best Business Cleaver Awards, honouring their excellence in the industry for the past 20 years.
Oosthuyse is the butchery manager at The Grove SUPERSPAR, while his daughter-in-law, Susan oversees the butchery at Crossing SUPERSPAR, as well as Steiltes SPAR. “To be recognised as a Titan of the industry means a lot to us,” Oosthuyse said. “I couldn’t do it without the people who make up the team at the butchery, and we have put in a lot of hard work to achieve these awards.”
An important part of this year’s awards was the announcement that Crown National will be the headline sponsor of the Best Business Cleaver Awards.
The competition will also be adopting a new voting system going forwards, which will open up a wealth of new categories to butcheries that they can enter, not limiting them simply to butchery-related awards.
