Who owns Simba?
Simba, a food brand, is owned by Marsavco (the Democratic Republic of the Congo).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Marsavco S.A. — À propos: notre histoire, nos usines, sociétés du groupe; et Nos marques. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Marsavco S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa
- Origin
- 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Cooking oils
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Simba
Simba is Marsavco's food brand and the biggest thing it makes: refined vegetable cooking oil sold in one, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five and thirty-litre containers, which covers the household bottle and the bulk drum bought by traders and caterers from the same Kinshasa refinery. The name has since been extended to instant noodles, sold in beef and shrimp flavours in 70g and 100g packs, and the company markets those heavily to Congolese families around the school year and through music and family events in Kinshasa.
Ownership timeline of Simba
Where Simba sits in Marsavco
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Marsavco
Marsavco controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in cooking oils, and who owns them
The 67 brands in cooking oils on Brandtree belong to 30 owners. The largest is Avril, with 8; Marsavco has 2.
About the owner: Marsavco
Marsavco is a privately held company headquartered in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, founded in 1922. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control.
Marsavco is a Congolese manufacturer of cooking oil, margarine, soap, detergents and personal care products, created in Kinshasa in January 1922 as SAVCO, the Savonnerie Congolaise, making soap from palm and palm kernel oil. It added edible oils in 1956, synthetic detergents and toilet soaps in 1961 and powder detergents and toothpaste in 1963, and took the name Marsavco when it began making margarine; after the country was renamed Zaïre in 1971 the "co" of Congo was reread as Cosmétiques. It belonged to the Unilever group for most of the twentieth century, and when Unilever ended its Congolese operations in 2000 the Rawji Group bought every share in February 2002 and became its sole owner. It now runs a 300-tonne-a-day refinery in Kinshasa with its own blow-moulding, carton and HDPE jerrycan plants, a soap works and a detergent packing plant, and a warehouse in the Kampemba district of Lubumbashi. Its sister companies in the Rawji Group include the trading house Beltexco, the Yamaha distributor Prodimpex and Rawbank.
🇨🇩 Simba and other Congolese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 5 brands that began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. All of them are controlled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Congo Airways — Congo Airways 🇨🇩
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Simba?
The parent company of Simba is Marsavco, a privately held company headquartered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Is Simba Congolese?
Yes. Simba originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its owner, Marsavco, is also headquartered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Is Simba still owned by Marsavco?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Simba is still owned by Marsavco. 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] Marsavco S.A. — À propos: notre histoire, nos usines, sociétés du groupe; et Nos marques — Marsavco S.A., Official document; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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