There have been many Adelaide and South Australian icons, some of which still exist, but few of which are still South Australian owned.^[1]

With the start of the 21st century, and in conjunction with the National Trust (SA), BankSA launched its annual "Heritage Icons List",^[2] naming 8 icons per year.^[3] The following is a list of some of these and other icons.

• Container Deposit Legislation (1996)
• AMSCOL (Adelaide Milk Supply Co-Operative Limited), particularly AMSCOL Vanilla Ice-cream and free school milk in 1/3 pint bottles (~190ml)
  • Dandy - a serving of Amscol vanilla ice-cream packaged in a small (perhaps 150 millilitres (5.3 imp fl oz; 5.1 US fl oz)) waxed-cardboard tub, sealed with an inserted cardboard cover (with lifting tab), and supplied with a thin flat wooden spoon, marketed from 1928, or earlier, to the takeover of the company.
• Balfours - owned by San Remo Macaroni Company since 2008^[4]
  • Balfours Frog cakes
• The Beachouse family entertainment complex, located in Glenelg, South Australia
• Bickford's lime juice cordial
• The Christmas Pageant
• Coopers, particularly Coopers Sparkling Ale and Coopers Pale Ale, still run and tightly held by the 5th generation descendants of the founder
• Farmers Union, particularly Farmers Union Iced Coffee, owned since the 1991 by National Foods, now a subsidiary of Kirin
• Golden North, particularly Golden North honeycomb ice cream, once again South Australian owned
• Haigh's Chocolates
• Hall's, (Geo. Hall & Sons), particularly "Passiona" and "Stonie" ginger beer (non-alcoholic)
  • Draft "Stonie" was available at the Norwood Pie Cart
• Hills Hoist
• Holden - Adelaide was the site of Holden Vehicle Operations in Elizabeth. They built iconic vehicles such as the Holden Commodore and the Holden Torana.
• Kitchener buns
• Menz, merged into Arnott, Motterham, Menz in the 1960s, now Privately owned by Robern Menz.
  • Menz "Yo-Yo" biscuits
  • Menz FruChocs
• Popeye
• Pie floaters and Pie carts
• South Australian Brewing Company, purchased by Lion Nathan, now a subsidiary of Kirin
  • West End,^[5] West End Draught^[6] and Southwark Bitter.^[7]
  • The Brewery Chimney at Thebarton^[8]
  • The Christmas display on the south bank of the River Torrens at Thebarton.
• Stobie poles - still South Australian
• Tonsley - The suburb where Chrysler Australia and Mitsubishi Motors Australia made cars from 1964 til 2008. The site has been turned into an innovation park and a housing development.
• Vili's, particularly Vili's Pies and "Cafe De Vili's" - still South Australian
• Woodroofe's, (W Woodroofe & Sons), particularly "Woodies Lemonade", publicly listed in 1983, purchased by SA Brewing Co, and onsold to Cadbury, Fry, Schweppes. Cadbury was acquired by Kraft Foods in 2010; Schweppes Australia is now owned by Asahi (2009)
  • "Woodies Lemonade, the best lemonade made" is still produced in Adelaide

• South Australia