What started as a small backyard egg business run by her mother has grown into a thriving commercial poultry enterprise producing close to a million eggs a month and creating 20 jobs.
Lebo Mashigo, founder of Eggsellent by Lebo in Kwaggafontein, now runs a business housing 30,000 chickens and supplying supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and other major clients. But she's thinking beyond her own success. Her next ambition is to establish a packing facility that will help smaller poultry farmers break into bigger markets.
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