- CEO
- Felix Kimanthi
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Building products
- Address
- Nairobi Kenya
- IPO Date
- May 9, 1995
- Business
- Olympia Capital Holdings Limited is a diversified investment holding company that operates primarily in the manufacturing, building materials, mechanical engineering, and real estate sectors across East and Southern Africa. Established in 1968 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the company is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange under the ticker symbol OCH. The group operates through multiple specialized subsidiaries to deliver a comprehensive suite of products and industrial solutions, including: vinyl floor tiles, sheeting, and specialized floor coverings manufactured through Kalahari Floor Tiles; industrial adhesives, contact adhesives, and bonding compounds; precision architectural aluminium products, window fittings, and structural profiles; commercial and industrial fire engineering systems, including automatic sprinkler installations, fire hydrant networks, and detection systems; agricultural, commercial, and industrial water pumps, booster systems, and fluid management equipment distributed through Mather + Platt (Kenya) Limited; industrial cleaning chemicals and specialty chemical formulations produced by BotFic Chemicals; and commercial real estate development, property management, and commercial leasing operations managed through facilities such as Avon Business Park and affiliate entity Heri Limited. The group conducts business across key regional markets, including Kenya, Botswana, South Africa, Malawi, Namibia, and Mozambique, serving commercial construction, industrial, infrastructure, and residential customer segments. In recent developments, Olympia Capital Holdings Limited has implemented strategic operational rationalization measures to mitigate rising finance and operating costs across its business units, focused capital allocation toward high-yield manufacturing operations at its Botswana-based subsidiaries, reinforced the engineering and fire protection contracting operations of Mather + Platt across East Africa, restructured legacy balance sheet exposures to optimize capital efficiency, and actively repositioned its commercial property portfolio to improve occupancy rates and generate steady rental yields amid evolving macroeconomic and regional market conditions.