Who owns Legane?
Legane 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
- Founded
- 2025
- Category
- Food › Meals & meal components › Pasta
- Parent ticker
- BSE: CHOP-EQO JSE: CHP
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Legane
Legane is a pasta range Choppies launched in the year to June 2025 as one of its confined brands, sold exclusively through its own stores. It is part of a deliberate widening of the own-label offer in staples, alongside moves such as extending the range of basmati rice, which the retailer presents as giving lower- and middle-income shoppers more choice at a price it controls.
Ownership timeline of Legane
Where Legane 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.
Founded in the 2020s
- Dealers Cash & Carry (2025)
- Lefofa (2025)
Other brands in pasta, and who owns them
The 121 brands in pasta on Brandtree belong to 63 owners. The largest is Ebro Foods, with 15.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bertagni | Ebro Foods | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Indomie | Indofood | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Camil | Camil | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Mimee | Dufil Prima Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Don Vicente | Molinos | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Corticella | Newlat Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Chikin Ramen | Nissin Foods | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| La Cantonesa | CMI | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
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.
🇧🇼 Legane and other Botswanan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 11 brands that began in Botswana. All of them are controlled from Botswana.
- Astar — Sefalana 🇧🇼
- Air Botswana — Air Botswana 🇧🇼
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Legane?
The parent company of Legane is Choppies, a publicly listed company headquartered in Botswana.
Is Legane Botswanan?
Yes. Legane originated in Botswana in 2025 and its owner, Choppies, is also headquartered in Botswana.
Is Legane still owned by Choppies?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Legane 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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