Ohlthaver & List: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Ohlthaver & List is a privately held company headquartered in Windhoek, Namibia that owns 7 consumer brands across 3 categories.[1]
Ohlthaver & List is the largest privately held group of companies in Namibia, begun in Windhoek in 1919 as a partnership between Hermann Ohlthaver and Carl List. It employs around 5,560 people across twelve operating companies in eight sectors and puts its own share of Namibian GDP at roughly two per cent. Its consumer businesses are Namibia Dairies, the meat processor Hartlief, the Walvis Bay seafood company Hangana and the Model supermarket chain. The brewer it founded in 1920 and listed in 1996, Namibia Breweries, was sold to Heineken in 2023, so Windhoek Lager and Tafel Lager are no longer its brands.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Ohlthaver & List Group of Companies (also O&L Group, O&L)
- Type
- privately held company · see all privately held company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇳🇦 Windhoek, Namibia
- Founded
- 1919
- Website
- www.ol.na
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Ohlthaver & List in numbers
- Ohlthaver & List owns 7 consumer brands tracked here across 3 top-level categories; the largest is food with 5 brands.[1]
Everything Ohlthaver & List owns
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Brand portfolio by category
Beverages (1)
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Ohlthaver & List own?
Ohlthaver & List owns 7 consumer brands tracked here, including Nammilk, Oshikandela, Hangana Seafood, Model, Culture Collection and Rietfontein.
Is Ohlthaver & List a Namibian company?
Yes. Ohlthaver & List is headquartered in Windhoek, Namibia and was founded in 1919.
Who owns Ohlthaver & List?
Ohlthaver & List is privately held. Ohlthaver & List is the largest privately held group of companies in Namibia, begun in Windhoek in 1919 as a partnership between Hermann Ohlthaver and Carl List.
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] Ohlthaver & List Group — portfolio — Ohlthaver & List Group of Companies, Official document; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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