Who owns City Pharmacy?
City Pharmacy is owned by CPL Group (Papua New Guinea, PNGX: CPL).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: City Pharmacy Limited — Annual Report 2025, 16 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- City Pharmacy Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby
- Origin
- 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby
- Founded
- 1987
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Retailer own brands › General merchandise own brands
- Parent ticker
- PNGX: CPL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About City Pharmacy
City Pharmacy is the flagship brand of CPL Group, which calls it Papua New Guinea's leading health and beauty retailer, with more than 35 outlets in almost every major town. It began in 1987 as The Pharmacy, a four-person shop at Garden City in Boroko, and was renamed later. Besides dispensing prescriptions and cold-chain vaccine storage it sells skincare, baby care, supplements, mobile phones and carrier top-ups, and it was the first business house to open in Buka after the Bougainville crisis.
Ownership timeline of City Pharmacy
Where City Pharmacy sits in CPL Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by CPL Group
CPL Group controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in general merchandise own brands, and who owns them
The 162 brands in general merchandise own brands on Brandtree belong to 68 owners. The largest is JD Sports, with 15; CPL Group has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Blacks | JD Sports | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Bebemundo | Corporación Favorita | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
| Innom | Reitan Retail | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| B&Q | Kingfisher | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Anko | Wesfarmers | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Basualdo | Cencosud | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Bike Republic | Colruyt Group | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Glans | Hagar | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
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About the owner: CPL Group
CPL Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, founded in 1987. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as PNGX: CPL.
CPL Group is Papua New Guinea's largest retailing network. Sir Mahesh Patel and the late Alan Jarvis opened a single shop called The Pharmacy at Garden City in Boroko, Port Moresby, in 1987 with four staff; the company listed on the Port Moresby Stock Exchange, bought the Stop & Shop supermarkets from Steamships Trading Company, and bought the Hardware Haus chain from the same seller four years after that. 2025 was the year it left the supermarket business: the sale of Stop & Shop to Taylor Pacific was concluded on 11 August 2025 after twenty years, and the group now describes itself as concentrating on health care, with hardware and a fashion joint venture alongside. It ended 2025 with 66 stores and 13 wellness clinics, revenue of K453.0 million against K500.5 million a year earlier, and profit before tax of K17.0 million after a K17.9 million loss in 2024, the year civil unrest in Port Moresby on 10 January cost it several stores and more than K90 million.
🇵🇬 City Pharmacy and other Papua New Guinean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 24 brands that began in Papua New Guinea. All of them are controlled from Papua New Guinea.
- Air Niugini — Air Niugini 🇵🇬
- Gala — Paradise Foods 🇵🇬
- Hevilift — Hevilift 🇵🇬
- PNG Air — PNG Air 🇵🇬
- Gold Nuggets — Paradise Foods 🇵🇬
- Hamamas — Paradise Foods 🇵🇬
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of City Pharmacy?
The parent company of City Pharmacy is CPL Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Papua New Guinea.
Is City Pharmacy Papua New Guinean?
Yes. City Pharmacy originated in Papua New Guinea in 1987 and its owner, CPL Group, is also headquartered in Papua New Guinea.
Is City Pharmacy still owned by CPL Group?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, City Pharmacy is still owned by CPL Group. 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] City Pharmacy Limited — Annual Report 2025 — City Pharmacy Limited, Annual report, published 16 March 2026; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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