Jambo Group Of Companies Limited

Jambo Group is one of the leading economic forces in Tanzania with major investments and successful operating companies in all key business sectors. The group is family owned and managed by its CEO, Founder and Director, Mr. Salum Khamis Salum and Mr. Seleman Khamis Salum, The Company’s Co-Director. Conceived in 1998 by Mr. Salum Khamis Salum, initially as a small trading business in the cotton sector engaging in cotton purchasing and ginning, oil refining & cotton lint bales exports. Over the years the Jambo Group has gone to grow successful businesses in sectors ranging from viable merchandise trading, agriculture, textile, manufacturing, petroleum products, cargo transportation and logistics distribution. Jambo Group employs more than 2,000 people around Tanzania, operating in over 25 regions around the country with over 200+ transportation trucks.On the 19th February 1998 after having been incorporated, Jambo Oil Mill & Ginneries initiated its operations. It had its humble beginnings in the region of Shinyanga and it was here that the company first manufactured the cotton products such as, cotton lint, seed oil and seed cake that would soon become the basis for Jambo Food products. The company has also grown in exporting cotton lint bales from 10,000 bales in the year 1999 to 50,000 bales today. Main clients are well known international corporations such as Olam, Plexus, and CDI. Bale exports mainly depart to European countries, India, China and Indonesia. The other commodity derived from the cotton operation is the cotton seed cooking oil which is has become a household name to many Tanzanian customers mainly in the lake zone region where the vastest customer base is.