Meikles
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Meikles is the popular name given to Meikles Hotel in central Harare, Zimbabwe, Meikles' department stores in Zimbabwe and Meikles Africa Limited, the company which owns both the hotel, the department stores and Meikles' TM Supermarket chain and other retail outlets.
The company owns stock in Rebserve and Kingdom Financial Holdings. It employs over 6,000 people.
The company was listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in 1996 and its market capitalization was ZW$6.3 trillion at the end of 2005.
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[edit] History
In the late nineteenth century three brothers, John Meikle (1868-1949), Stewart Meikle and Thomas Meikle (1862-1939) emigrated from Scotland to South Africa. In 1892 the brothers opened a successful trading business in Fort Victoria in Mashonaland in Rhodesia. In 1915 Thomas Meikle opened a hotel in present-day Harare.
[edit] Operations
Hotels The company owns the Meikles Hotel, the luxurious Victoria Falls Hotel in Victoria Falls and the Cape Grace Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa.
Retail Meikles Africa Ltd owns several department stores in Zimbabwe operating as Meikles and Barbours. The company operates the Zimbabwean concessions for the Greatermans, Clicks and Medix retail brands, and owns the Tanganda Tea business and the TM Supermarket chain.
[edit] External links
- Meikles Group/Meikles Africa Limited
- Meikles Hotels
- Meikles Group website's FAQ section is listed under "Investor Relations".
[edit] References
- Bridger, P., House, M., and others, 1973. Encyclopaedia Rhodesia, College Press, Salisbury, Rhodesia.
- Factsheet at InsiderZim
