The Savanna is a privately owned family business based in London, founded in 2005.
After a number of management positions at Marks and Spencer, our main founder (Lisa Gardshol) has invested heavily in turning Savanna from a start-up into a real business. We now have over 11,500 customers a week, spanning 13 London stores and a growing presence online with over 100,000 members.
Ragnar Gardshol has established our dedicated import division, which ships all our groceries from South Africa, while we produce all The Savanna's meat products at our Wimbledon butchery. This allowed us to launch our own biltong brand, m-eat! along with our sister website www.m-eat.co.uk.
Good, friendly customer service is Savanna's core principle. Our standards are high with friendly first-rate staff and our stores are designed to the highest spec. Looking ahead, while we plan to keep on growing, it will never, ever be because we have compromised on the quality of what we do. There are too many people working here who are just as passionate about this business as our founder, and they would never let that happen.