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Industry
  
Retail trade

Products
  
Supermarkets

Website
  
www.tuskys.com

Headquarters
  
Type of business
  
Private Family Owned

Key people
  
Daniel Githua

Subsidiaries
  
In Kenya, and Uganda

CEO
  
Daniel Githua (May 2015–)

Founded
  
1990

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Tuskys is a Kenyan supermarket chain. It is one of the large supermarket chains in the Great Lakes Area. It employs nearly 7,000 people, 6,000+ in Kenya, and 900 in Uganda.

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Location

The head office of Tuskys is located at the Gami Properties Complex, along Mombasa Road, in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The coordinates of the home office are:1°20'05.0"S, 36°53'38.0"E (Latitude:-1.334722; Longitude:36.893889).

Overview

As of June 2015, Tuskys owns and operates nearly fifty supermarkets in Kenya and Uganda. Tuskys is the second-largest supermarket chain in the African Great Lakes region, behind Nakumatt. Tuskys employs more than 6,000 people in Kenya.

Ownership

Tuskys is a wholly Kenyan, privately held company owned by seven children of Joram Kamau, the founder of the business who died in 2002. The table below summarizes the shareholding within the company as of August 2014.

Other considerations

Beginning in April 2013, Tuskys entered into a private deal with Ukwala Supermarkets a rival chain, whereby Tuskys would buy six Ukwala stores in the Nairobi area. To arrive at a fair price, Tuskys took over the management of two of the stores to assess traffic and commercial flow at those locations. The two chains did not consult the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK), as required by law. When CAK learned of the transaction, the regulator stopped the deal and fined the two chains a total of KES:5.3 million (about US$62,000). CAK ordered the management arrangements to be reversed. When the supermarket chains did not move fast enough, CAK closed the two stores in question.

References

Tuskys Wikipedia


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