[1] As of December 2015[update], Nakumatt had 65 stores in the African Great Lakes countries of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.

[4] In June 2009, the first Nakumatt store in Uganda opened on Yusuf Lule Road on Kololo Hill, in central Kampala, the capital city.

[6] In February 2016, the retail chain announced plans to open five new stores outside Kenya during the first half of the year.

[10] Nakumatt was a wholly Kenyan, privately held company, owned by the Atul Shah family.

[11] In July 2013, Kenyan print media indicated that the chain planned to sell a 25% stake to yet an unidentified investor and use the funds for regional expansion.

The website of Nakumatt Holdings Limited was hacked by Iranian hackers called Sole Sad & Invisible.

However, in December 2019 the retail chain sold the last six branches to Naivas Supermarkets in a deal that will see the Nakumatt brand completely disappear by the end of 2019.