About Us

Our Journey

We are proud of our range of over 500 retail items, utilized and trusted by people all over Southern Africa. We are grateful to you for trusting and supporting us.    

It has been an amazing adventure from our humble start of just 5 items to where we are today. This journey though is far from over, we continually seek to research, analyse and innovate, creating new and exciting high-quality safe products with South Africans in mind.

Our team of more than 270 staff members make sure that at the end of every day we can proudly say "Your life is better with Alva."

Corporate Profile

Alva, a division of The Stingray Group is a South African business, head-quartered in Cape Town, with offices in Johannesburg too.

The Group was founded in the 1980’s and today owns and distributes some of Southern Africa’s favourite brands covering the automotive, lifestyle, heating, camping,  cleaning, laundry, personal weight management and electrical categories.

Alva is available in all leading Southern African retailers as well as from our online store. 

Take a look at our other websites and brands
STINGRAY.CO.ZA : Automotive / Home / Bathroom / Living/ Kitchen
WENKOSA.CO.ZA : Home / Bathroom / Living/ Kitchen
ELECTRICBLANKETS.ONLINE : Electric Blankets: