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Trade & Industry
number of mining products. These include valves,
bearings, rubber linings, graphite electrodes (used
in cobalt processing), and seals. Steel, mainly steel
plates, are supplied to the local market and tires are
sourced from MRF in India.
Trade King
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29381 Nampundwe Road
Lusaka
Tel: +260 211 286 117
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The Trade Kings Limited is the largest FMCG manu-
facturer in Zambia and one of the major manufactur-
ers in the region. Trade Kings Limited manufactures
high-quality branded detergents (liquids, powders and
pastes), soaps, sweets, lollipops confectionery, and
soya nuggets and distributes them throughout Zam-
bia and the sub-saharan region.
Since 1992, Trade Kings has built a rich heritage of
touching consumers’ lives with brands that make life a
little better every day. The company is one of the larg-
est private manufacturing establishments in southern
Africa, engaged in diverse manufacturing disciplines.
Trade Kings’ has established a significant presence
in the manufacturing sector regionally. Its emphasis
is to provide branded products of superior quality and
value that improve the lives of consumers nationally
and internationally, now and for future generations.
Union Gol
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Great East Road
Lusaka
Tel: +260 211 252 402
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Union Gold strives continually for perfection by man-
aging its varied products and services to bring the
best to Zambia. In operation since 2000, the company
has gathered a decade’s worth of management expe-
rience to become a respected member of the Zam-
bian business arena.
Union Gold has branched out into many diversified
sectors throughout the years in order to compete in
the business world on multiple fronts.
The company operates departments in order to
streamline its services and provide a more focused
approach to its work. These branches help to clarify
its management operations and its family of compa-
nies when strategically planning for the future.
It consists of six management departments dealing
with construction, development, distribution, manu-
facturing, retail, and hospitality.
Zal
co Limited
Hussein Safieddine
Chairman
5110 Lumumba Road
P.O. Box 30973, Lusaka
Tel: +260 211 221 331
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The company manufactures a wide range of quality
electric cables and copper cathodes. ZALCO also
fabricates hand railings, stairs, structural frames for
buildings and equipment, and cooking utensils such
as pots and pans under the Alumpoto, Yolimba, Wo-
mens Pride, Ipot, and Afripot brands. Power Max
quality automotive batteries and Solar Max batter-
ies are also produced by the company. The com-
pany has branches in Lusaka, Kabwe, and Kitwe.
ZALCO manufactures quality brands of pots and
pans, namely Alumpoto, Yolimba, and Afripot.
They also manufacture aluminum sheets that can
be used in a wide range of applications, steel de-
formed bars that are essential in the construction
industrial, and oxygen gas used in industrial appli-
cations.
ZALCO produces a wide range of high-quality elec-
tric cables that include single core, multi strand, and
twin flex cables. The cables range from 1.5 mm to
16 mm and are packaged in 100 m lengths. They
also manufacture copper cathodes that are fully
certified by the Zambia Bureau of Standards.
The company is one of the leading manufacturers
of solar and automotive batteries. ZALCO manufac-
tures two brands of batteries, Solar Max and Power
Max. The long life Solar Max batteries are designed
