The billionaires behind mega supermarkets in kenya | Top supermarkets in kenya 🇰🇪

We are going to features mathai supermarket, naivas , cleanshelf ,, Chandarana, choppies, magnus, find out what happen to nakumarrt supermarket and tuskeys .who owns this supermarkets . Let’s dive in.
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mathai supermarket.
The supermarket is a wholly Kenyan, privately held company. Kenyan print media indicate that the supermarket chain is owned by Viktah Maina, a Thika-based businessman. He also owns the building host mathai supermarket along ronald ngala in Nairobi,other of his properties include kclub,kclub liquid cash, Jack and Jill building.
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Naivas supermarket.
Currently Naivas hold the title of the largest supermarket chain in Kenya, ahead of Quick Mart Limited with 51 outlets in the country. is a privately owned company, whose shares are majorly held by the descendants of its founder Peter Mukuha Kago 60%, who died on 6 May 2010. While French equity firm Amethis Finance and Mauritian investment conglomerate IBL Group owns 40%.
Cleanshelf Supermarket.
Cleanshelf Supermarket was founded in 2002 as a single supermarket based in Limuru Town.
As of 2019, the retail chain which is owned by three brothers had over 10 stores spread across the country.
Cleanshelf co-founder and Managing Director Timothy Kihara.
Chandarana food plus.
Chandarana Foodplus entered the supermarket business in 1959 and continues to grow from strength to strength and currently operates twenty seven branches. During governor sonko term he tried to cancel Chandarana foodplus license.
Three of the founder’s sons, Anil Thakkar, Sanjay Thakkar and Dipan Thakkar, run the enterprise.
The company’s Group Chief Operations Director, in Hanif Rajan,
Choppies supermarket.
Is a Botswana multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana.
Retail tycoon Ram Ottapathu, the owner of Choppies shops.
Magnus supermarket.
Started as a retail shop, which grew to Maguna-Andu Wholesalers where he would acquire goods from manufacturers on credit. His wholesale business went on to transition to Magunas Supermarket. Who are we talking about? Simon Wachira amassed wealth running into billions and still remained reclusive and humble.
Quickmart.
As of June 2022, it was the second largest supermarket chain in the country, behind market leader, Naivas Limited, with 84 stores and over 8,000 employees. Its is owned by the kinuthia family less than 50% and sokoni retailer kenya which is a private firm adenia partnerpartners in mauritius. Quickmart had gross annual sales in excess of Krnua Shillings 1 billion In 2022.
Carrefour Kenya.
Carrefour is a hypermarket owned by Majid Al Futtaim. It has about eight branches in Kenya and its just one of the best supermarkets in Kenya.
Nakumarrt.
As of December 2015, Nakumatt had 65 stores in the African Great Lakes countries of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. It employed over 5,500, and had gross annual revenue in excess of US$450 mmillio.its was a wholly Kenyan, privately held company, owned by the Atul Shah family. What happened to nakumarrt, In October 2017 the company ran out of funds and did not pay rents or wages. 60 stores were closed.
Tuskeys.
It was one of the large supermarket chains in the Great Lakes Area. It employed nearly 6,150 people, 6,000+ in Kenya