Who owns Choppies?
Choppies is owned by Choppies Enterprises Limited (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
- Founded
- 2003
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Retailer own brands › Grocery own brands
- Parent ticker
- BSE: CHOP-EQO JSE: CHP
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Choppies
Choppies is the supermarket banner and the own-label on the shelves inside it, which the company reports as 568 stock-keeping units of Choppies-branded and confined-branded goods spanning fresh, frozen, canned and dry food, snacks, ethnic specialities, health and beauty, household and laundry. The retail brand was consolidated under the single name in 2003, seventeen years after the first shop opened. It trades in three grocery sizes: Hyper at up to 4,900 square metres, Superstore, and the small rural Valuestore.
Ownership timeline of Choppies
Where Choppies 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, 5 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in grocery own brands, and who owns them
The 170 brands in grocery own brands on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is Cencosud, with 12; Choppies has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bretas | Cencosud | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Lucerne | Albertsons | 🇺🇸 United States |
| City Gross | Axfood | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Chalo | Empire | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Checkers | Shoprite Group | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Amanhecer | Jerónimo Martins | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| K-Citymarket | Kesko | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Farmer's Market | Loblaw | 🇨🇦 Canada |
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 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?
The parent company of Choppies is Choppies Enterprises Limited, a publicly listed company headquartered in Botswana.
Is Choppies Botswanan?
Yes. Choppies originated in Botswana in 2003 and its owner, Choppies Enterprises Limited, is also headquartered in Botswana.
Is Choppies still owned by Choppies Enterprises Limited?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Choppies is still owned by Choppies Enterprises Limited. 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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