The supermarket chain is a subsidiary of Choppies, a retail conglomerate based in Gaborone, Botswana.
[2] The head office of Ukwala is on Haile Selassie Avenue, in Nairobi, the largest city in Kenya and the capital of that country.
To arrive at a fair price, Tuskys took over the management of two of the stores, to assess traffic and commercial flow at those locations.
When CAK learned of the transaction, the regulator stopped the deal and fined the two chains a total of KES:5.3 million (about US$38,000).
[9] On 29 May 2015, the Botswana-based supermarket chain Choppies reached an agreement to purchase Ukwala's ten stores for approximately US $10 million (KSh 1.4 billion).