Zambeef: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Zambeef (LuSE: ZAMBEEF, AIM: ZAM) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Lusaka, Zambia that owns 7 consumer brands across 2 categories.[1]
Zambeef Products is the largest integrated cold chain food and agribusiness company in Zambia. It was founded in June 1994 as a small butchery business and now farms wheat, maize and soya, runs beef abattoirs and feedlots, poultry, pork and dairy plants, flour mills, a stockfeed business and a tannery and shoe factory, and sells through its own shops and the butcheries it operates in Shoprite supermarkets. It is listed in Lusaka and on London's AIM. On 29 April 2026 British International Investment converted its preference shares into ordinary shares, taking its voting rights to about 59 per cent.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Zambeef Products PLC (also Zambeef Products)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇿🇲 Lusaka, Zambia
- Founded
- 1994
- Tickers
- LuSE: ZAMBEEF AIM: ZAM
- Website
- zambeefplc.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Zambeef in numbers
- Zambeef owns 7 consumer brands tracked here across 2 top-level categories; the largest is food with 6 brands.[1]
Everything Zambeef owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Full portfolio, 7 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →
Zambeef in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
- Legal entity identifier (LEI)
- 213800U7PEKOUE14NP20
- Registered name
- ZAMBEEF PRODUCTS PLC (ZM)
- Registration status
- Lapsed · record updated 13 January 2022
- Parent
- None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Zambeef own?
Zambeef owns 7 consumer brands tracked here, including Zamflour, Zamchick, Zamshu, Zammilk, Zambeef and Master Pork.
Is Zambeef a Zambian company?
Yes. Zambeef is headquartered in Lusaka, Zambia and was founded in 1994.
Who owns Zambeef?
Zambeef is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as ZAMBEEF on the LuSE and ZAM on the AIM.
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] Zambeef Products PLC 2025 Annual Report — Zambeef Products PLC, Annual report; retrieved 17 September 2026.
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