[citation needed] The first model of the company was the 1952 introduced copy of the famous Zeederberg carriage.
The South African entrepreneurs had measured the dimensioning of the original model which can be shown at the Johannesburg Museum.
As this boom had an end in the early seventies, the company started the production of modern buses under the German MAN brand.
Since 2007 De Haan's is CKD assembling Mercedes-Benz buses on behalf of the Egyptian Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles for the local market.
The company management is currently held by the two sons Peter and Andre de Haan.