Shalom Catering

What Shalom Catering does

Shalom Catering is a privately held, for-profit catering business registered and operating in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The firm offers catering services across a range of event types, functioning as a local food-service provider for private functions, corporate events, and similar gatherings in its geographic catchment. Its web presence is maintained at shalomcatering.co.za, although the site returns only a loading/verification screen at the time of data collection, limiting visibility into menu offerings, pricing structures, and operational scope.

The company is micro-scale, with a disclosed headcount of 1-10 employees, consistent with a small owner-operated or family-run catering operator rather than a multi-site commercial food-services group. There is no disclosed information on founding date, ownership, management team, supplier relationships, kitchen capacity, fleet logistics, or technology stack. No pricing model, booking system, partnership, accreditation, or third-party platform integration is referenced in the available data.

No revenue, funding, transaction volume, or customer concentration metrics are disclosed. The company operates outside the scope of technology-driven catering platforms or aggregator channels based on the input; the available material does not indicate franchise arrangements, multi-branch operations, or institutional catering contracts. Information depth is shallow overall: the firm is identifiable as a local event caterer in a secondary South African metro, with no further granularity available from the source data.

Name

Shalom Catering

Legal name

Shalom Catering

Website

https://shalomcatering.co.za

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Shalom Catering is a privately held, for-profit event catering business based in Richards Bay, South Africa. It serves local private and corporate clients across a range of event types, operating with a small team of 1-10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Catering Services

NAICS

Caterers (72232), Caterers (722320), Food Service Contractors (722310)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Full-Service Catering (Off-Premise) (HSACAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Event Catering (Weddings, Social, Private Parties) (THAFAIAB), Specialty & Dietary Catering (Vegan, Kosher, Halal, Allergy-Friendly) (HSACAGAH), Catering Coordination & Bar Service Management (Non-restaurant) (HSACAAAH)

Keywords

• Event catering services
• Wedding catering
• Corporate catering
• Food service
• Catering solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Richards Bay

HQ country

South Africa

HQ region

Africa

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Shalom Catering is a catering service based in Richards Bay, South Africa, that provides food and beverage catering for a large variety of event types. The firm operates as a small for-profit business (1-10 employees) serving event-based food service needs in its local South African market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Event Catering Catering service that provides food and beverage offerings for a large variety of event types, based in Richards Bay, South Africa.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Bidvest Catering: Largest contract catering and food services company in South Africa, serving corporate, institutional, and event clients nationwide. Direct competitor for the same corporate and event catering demand Shalom targets, though at vastly different scale.
• Aramark: Global provider of food, facilities, and uniform services with significant event and banquet catering operations. Comparable in catering activity, not in scale or geography.
• Elior Group: International contract catering and food services group operating across Europe and beyond. Overlaps with Shalom in event and corporate catering, but serves different geographies at much larger scale.
• Fedics (Tsebo Solutions): Leading African contract catering brand within Tsebo Group, providing food services to corporate, mining, healthcare, and education clients. Comparable to Shalom in service category, but operates at national and pan-African scale.
• Compass Group: Global contract foodservice and support services giant operating across multiple continents. Comparable to Shalom in core catering activity, but competes in the broader food services and facilities support market.
• Sodexo: International food services and facilities management company with event catering and corporate hospitality offerings. Overlaps with Shalom in catering function while operating at massive global footprint.

Direct peers

• Chef Afrika: South African event and function catering company offering tailored menus for weddings, corporate events, and private functions. Closest comparably sized peer to Shalom in the regional event-catering market.

Regional players

• Caterplus (KZN): KwaZulu-Natal regional catering provider serving private and corporate events in the same geography as Shalom Catering. Closest regional competitor for Richards Bay / KZN event bookings.
• Mamtaaz Catering: KwaZulu-Natal-based event caterer specializing in Indian, halal, and culturally specific menus. Direct regional competitor for the same KZN event market and an alternative for customers who might otherwise consider Shalom's specialty offerings.

Others

• Capespan Foods: South African food producer and supplier with exposure to foodservice and hospitality channels. Adjacent industry connection via food supply chain to caterers like Shalom, not a direct event competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/shalom-catering-decor-594450990649280
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/shalom-catering

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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