Choppies

Overview

Choppies Enterprises Limited

type	Public limited company
traded as	botswana stock exchange: CHOPPIES
foundation	1986 (Lobatse, Botswana)
location city	Gaborone
location country	Botswana
locations	161 stores
area served	Botswana, Zambia, Namibia
key people	Uttum Corea - Chairman Farouk Ismail - Deputy Chairman Ramachandran Ottapathu - Chief Executive Officer Vidya Sanooj - Acting CFO Tom Pritchard - Independent Non-Executive Director Carol Jean Harward - Independent Non-Executive Director
industry	Retailing, Fast-moving consumer goods
products	Hyper stores, Super stores and Value stores
services	Pre-Paid Utilities and Mobile, Bill payments, Tickets, Mobile starter packs, Money transfers.
revenue	▲ BWP 5.42 billion (half year ending Dec 20)
operating income	▲ BWP 1.3 billion (half year ending Dec 20)
net income	BWP 139 million(half year ending Dec 19)
num employees	9 385 (As of December 2020)‡R1R‡
homepage	https://choppiesgroup.com/

Choppies Enterprises Limited is a Botswana multinational supermarket retailer headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. The retailer initially sold only food-based goods (both fresh groceries and wholesale long-life foods) and other fast-moving consumer goods. By 2024, Choppies had 161 stores in 4 countries.[2]

Choppies became a listed company on the Botswana Stock Exchange on January 26, 2012, and is a constituent of the BSE Domestic Company Index with an approximate market capitalization of P2.4 billion as of December 20, 2012.[3]

History

Choppies was founded in 1986 with a single store, Wayside Supermarket (Proprietary) Limited, in Lobatse by the Chopdat family. A second store was opened in 1993.

By 1999, the company operated only two stores. Since then, it has grown to become a dominant player in Botswana’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry.

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