Fans of the unique sauce will be sad to find shelves devoid of their favourite sauce but they could be more devasted to learn it will likely not return anytime soon.
Pioneer Foods which is now owned by PepsiCo had been procuring, distributing and selling Lea & Perrins and HP Sauce under licence from Kraft Heinz, in SA, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia for many years, but those licences expired last May and were not reviewed, said Mandy Murphy, foods executive at PepsiCo SA.
And they won’t, she told TimesLIVE.