Who owns Choppies Fried Chicken?
Choppies Fried Chicken is owned by Choppies (Botswana, BSE: CHOP-EQO).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Choppies Enterprises Limited Integrated Annual Report 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Choppies Enterprises Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇧🇼 Botswana, Gaborone
- Origin
- 🇧🇼 Botswana
- Category
- Restaurants & foodservice › Quick-service restaurants › Burger & chicken chains
- Parent ticker
- BSE: CHOP-EQO JSE: CHP
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Choppies Fried Chicken
Choppies Fried Chicken is the group's store-within-a-store takeaway counter, operating inside 74 Choppies stores across Botswana, Namibia and Zambia and inside every On The Go forecourt shop. The company reports its two-piece-and-chips meal as the most ordered item, at around 18,000 a month. It sits alongside a wider prepared-food offer whose daily menu, running to 320 choices, is set store by store to match local tastes.
Ownership timeline of Choppies Fried Chicken
Where Choppies Fried Chicken sits in Choppies
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Choppies
Choppies controls 9 brands on Brandtree.
- Builders Mart
- Choppies (2003)
- Dealers Cash & Carry (2025)
- Lefofa (2025)
- Legane (2025)
- Liquorama
- Lumo
- On The Go
Other brands in burger & chicken chains, and who owns them
The 39 brands in burger & chicken chains on Brandtree belong to 24 owners. The largest is Jollibee Group, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Chowking | Jollibee Group | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Arby's | Inspire Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| KFC | Yum! Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Chester's | CP Foods | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Burger King | Restaurant Brands International | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Papa Murphy's | MTY Group | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Wimpy (Middle East) | Americana Restaurants | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
| Steak n Shake | Biglari Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Choppies
Choppies is a publicly listed company headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana, founded in 1986. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as BSE: CHOP-EQO and JSE: CHP.
Choppies is one of the largest retailers in southern Africa, holding what it calls a significant leading position in Botswana's retail sector, where it began in 1986 with a single shop in Lobatse called Wayside Supermarket. In the year to 30 June 2025 it ran 287 stores — 174 grocery, 85 liquor and 28 hardware — across Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, with seven distribution centres and 11,393 employees. It listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange in 2012 and took a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 2015, then spent the following decade retreating from an over-extended expansion, leaving South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya and Tanzania in 2020 and selling its Zimbabwean business in 2025. Own-label accounts for 22 per cent of what it sells, supplied in part by milling, grain packaging and tissue operations it owns.
🇧🇼 Choppies Fried Chicken and other Botswanan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 11 brands that began in Botswana. All of them are controlled from Botswana.
- Air Botswana — Air Botswana 🇧🇼
- Astar — Sefalana 🇧🇼
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Choppies Fried Chicken?
The parent company of Choppies Fried Chicken is Choppies, a publicly listed company headquartered in Botswana.
Is Choppies Fried Chicken Botswanan?
Yes. Choppies Fried Chicken originated in Botswana and its owner, Choppies, is also headquartered in Botswana.
Is Choppies Fried Chicken still owned by Choppies?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Choppies Fried Chicken is still owned by Choppies. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Choppies Enterprises Limited Integrated Annual Report 2025 — Choppies Enterprises Limited, Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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