24/10/2026
🏆 Business Entity of the Year 2026 – Medium Business Category 🏆
Last night, Minnies Food Enterprise was honoured with this award at the Minara Chamber of Commerce Business Recognition Awards. We are still taking it in, and our hearts are full.
This award doesn't belong to us alone. It belongs to everyone who has walked this road with us since 1993.
To our staff: you are the heart of Minnies. Every bottle, every blend and every early morning on the factory floor carries your hard work and pride. This is your award.
To our customers, here at home and across the world: thank you for putting Minnies on your tables, your shelves and your menus, and for trusting us year after year.
To our suppliers and partners: thank you for growing with us, solving problems with us and standing by us through every season.
To our family and friends: thank you for your patience, your prayers and your belief in us, especially on the days when the road was hard.
And to our late parents, who were instrumental in establishing this business: everything we have built stands on the foundation you laid. We carried your vision into this room last night, and we wish you could have been there to see it.
A sincere thank you to the Minara Chamber of Commerce and Standard Bank for this recognition, and congratulations to all our fellow nominees and winners.
33 years later, we are still thinking out of the pot, and we are only getting started.
With love and gratitude,
Ibrahim & Shaazia Kolia
Minnies Food Enterprise
