Moses Shikokoti • 21 hours ago
Truth Be told You need to do research about uchumi,Uchumi currently has 37 Branches and is opening 6 New branches before Jan 2015 That is 3 New branches in Tz(Moshi Arusha and Dar) and 3 more in kenya(Naivasha,kenyatta University and Diani) so by January 2015 uchumi will have a total of 43 Branches.As for sales,Naivas overtook uchumi in 2012 when uchumi had only 18 Branches and naivas 23 Estabilished branches.(Pls note estabilished)since Naivas does not publish their financial statements it is hard to know if they made a profit or loss.Market leader Nakumatt Lost about 5Bin revenues due to insecurity.Most of uchumi's green field branches are yet to mature and start making profits
Besides that All the 3 "Leading supermarkets" strategy is building their stores close to uchumi and benefiting from there customers base .Uchumi is very resilient,See what happened in westlands Thika road and Burur buru and ngong road branches..you cant do that in US or UK.
about Expansion Uchumi signed an agreement with Tanzania's National Housing corporation to lease all the 10 Malls under construction.(READhttp://www.globalpublisher...
This after it signed a deal with Tanzania's NSSF to lease all its 7 malls in Masaki, Mbagala, Mikocheni, Mbezi, Tabata, Africana and Dar es Salaam’s City Centre and other key towns(READ
http://www.ventures-africa.com....
In Rwanda Uchumi is the anchor supermarket of the Biggest shopping mall under construction in eno mohima(CHICK COMPLEX)READ
http://focus.rw/wp/2014/04/uch...
and currently 4 stores are under construction in other parts of Rwanda (READhttp://www.theeastafrican.... the loss making Ugandan Unit,uchumi shut loss making branch and is opening two stores soon in mbarara and kampala.In kenya.Uchumi is awaiting completion of malls in nyeri(Madiba mall)K U Thika road(Unicity)Kiambu road near Nakumatt Ridgeways(Ciata city)and Limuru.
Uchumi is also planning a mall next to nakumatt TRM.That stretch of Land from Safaripark to Thika Road mall belongs to Kasarani mall(sister company to uchumi.
Once the green field shops will start making profit uchumi is going to strengthen its operations thro out East Africa.Competition has just started Uchumi is not out yet
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