Who we are

For 25 years, Trade Kings Group has been creating innovative laundry and cleaning products, delicious sweets, confectionary, snacks, biscuits and reinventing both traditional and exciting new beverages. With Mr. Patel, our founder and group CEO, at the helm his values, vision and resolve have had a profound influence on the business and remains a source of inspiration for the Trade Kings Group, we know and love today.

An intergenerational family business ethos, values and culture still govern the way we do business. Trade Kings is a family business with our current directors being the second generation to drive the business forward. Although still actively involved in the business, Mr. Patel challenges the next generation and his team to continue pursuing excellence and take the business to greater heights. Speaking both of the Trade Kings Group as well as the young entrepreneurs and visionaries, Mr. Patel says “The perpetual quest to remain at dizzying heights of the industry is a journey not a destination. It should be a relentless pursuit for the pioneers of the future.”

Whilst we are always looking to the future. It is our heritage and the heritage of the country in which we operate that makes us who we are. We often reflect on our history and take inspiration from our origins. Our history and roots remain deeply intertwined with Zambia, the community, its people and the sub Saharan African region at large. We are proud to represent Zambia on the global stage and are thankful to be recognized amongst the top brands in Africa.

We still make the tried, tested and trusted brands and products for which we have become a household name but have modernised and embraced change over the years. Today, we are still the same business and the makers of innovative, beautiful, functional, high quality products designed to simplify your life but now are driven by innovation, invention, global standards, international manufacturing practices, research and rapid product development in order to continue pushing limits and bringing you the very best.

Although we have grown to be amongst the largest FMCG manufacturers in sub Saharan Africa, to include seven subsidiary businesses, now operating in ten countries and with a product range spanning everything from laundry and cleaning products, beverages and foods to steel production. The vision, tenacity, entrepreneurial spirit and creativity which drove the early success of Trade Kings can still be seen in the passion of its talented, hardworking teams and experts.

At Trade Kings, we are uncompromising when it comes to product quality we can put our name on, “Improving Lives” of the Zambian and African people that have welcomed Trade Kings into their homes and never taking for granted what our products mean to you, your families and homes.

We are excited for you to join the Trade Kings story.

Find out more about the Trade Kings Story or for more information about what we are doing to “Improve Lives”.