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Tanzanian businessman Edha Nahdi has built one of East Africa’s most aggressive industrial groups by expanding far beyond the family trading roots where he started.
Nahdi, who comes from a successful East African trading family, began working in the family’s trucking and trading operations before branching out into his own ventures. He later helped build Amsons Group into a regional conglomerate with interests spanning energy, cement, logistics, food manufacturing, real estate and industrial technology. At 39, he is already being discussed in the same regional cement power conversation as Aliko Dangote and Abdulsamad Rabiu, especially after his push into Kenya through Bamburi Cement and East African Portland Cement.
What sets Nahdi apart is not just dealmaking. It is the way he has tied heavy industry to distribution. Amsons controls fuel storage, trucks, import and logistics assets, then uses that backbone to support cement, flour and other operations across East and Central Africa. The group says it has more than 800 trucks, major petroleum storage and a portfolio of 14 plus active brands across five sectors and multiple countries.
Here is a closer look at 20 businesses owned, controlled or closely held through Edha Nahdi and the Amsons ecosystem.
1. Bamburi Cement Plc
Bamburi Cement is the flagship Kenyan acquisition that moved Nahdi into the top tier of East African cement. Amsons, through Amsons Industries Kenya, acquired a controlling stake, crossed the threshold for compulsory acquisition, and moved to take the company private after securing more than 96 percent shareholder acceptance. Bamburi’s own group materials now describe it as part of Amsons Group. The company has about 3.2 million tonnes of annual capacity across its Kenyan plants and remains one of the region’s best known cement brands.
2. Camel Oil Tanzania Limited
Camel Oil is the founding business of the group and the base of Nahdi’s rise. It imports, stores, distributes and retails petroleum products. The company operates a 60,000 cubic meter storage facility near Dar es Salaam harbor, equal to about 60 million liters, and runs more than 60 service stations, with expansion plans stated on its brand page.
3. Camel Cement
Camel Cement is Amsons’ Tanzania cement manufacturing business in Mbagala, Dar es Salaam. It produces multiple EN 197 compliant cement grades and runs continuous production from a strategically located plant that serves Dar es Salaam and other markets. The business is a core part of Nahdi’s domestic cement footprint.
4. Mbeya Cement
Mbeya Cement gives Amsons a fully integrated cement plant in southwest Tanzania, with clinker, cement and aggregates production in Songwe Industrial Area, Mbeya. The current brand page highlights 350,000 tonnes annual capacity and more than 40 years of operating history, while the wider Amsons brands page markets Mbeya Cement as a larger scale export facing platform serving Zambia and Malawi.
5. Camel Concrete
Camel Concrete is a ready mix concrete supplier based in Dar es Salaam. Amsons says the unit operates fully computerized batching plants with output of up to 200 cubic meters per hour and a fleet of 20 mixer trucks. It supplies construction projects that need consistent volume and delivery scheduling.
6. Cam Gas
Cam Gas is Amsons’ liquefied petroleum gas business for household and commercial cooking energy. The group positions it as a cleaner cooking fuel business and search snippets from the brand page describe a filling and storage terminal in Kurasini, Dar es Salaam.
7. Camel Lubricants
Camel Lubricants is a manufacturer and supplier of branded premium lubricating oils, greases and related products for automotive, industrial and marine use. The business complements Amsons’ fuel and transport operations and supplies both internal demand and external customers.
8. Tanzania CLOU Electronic Company Limited
Tanzania CLOU Electronic Company Limited is a state of the art assembly plant established in partnership with Shenzhen CLOU Electronics Company Ltd. It focuses on smart grid equipment and related energy saving and emissions reduction solutions for Tanzania and the wider region, making it one of the group’s more technical manufacturing businesses.
9. Kalahari Petroleum
Kalahari Petroleum is an Amsons linked petroleum products and services business serving Tanzania and the wider East African region. The group lists it as part of its energy portfolio and positions it as another fuel supply platform alongside Camel Oil.
10. Africa Energy Ltd
Africa Energy Ltd is the group’s energy infrastructure platform. Amsons lists it as an energy solutions provider, and the group’s recent Zambia push has put extra attention on its expansion into power generation and infrastructure partnerships.
11. Camel Flour
Camel Flour is Amsons’ wheat milling business. The company says its mill was commissioned in late 2017, started at 150 metric tons per day and expanded to 500 metric tons per day, with monthly output of up to 15,000 metric tons. It is one of the group’s main food manufacturing assets.
12. Camel Packaging
Camel Packaging produces woven packaging and related industrial packaging solutions. Amsons positions it as a support business for internal FMCG and industrial operations while also serving outside clients that need packaging for transport and storage.
13. Farion Trading Limited
Farion Trading Limited operates an inland container depot business. Amsons says the facility sits on about 8 acres and can handle up to 50,000 TEU a year, giving the group a logistics and cargo handling asset tied to regional trade flows.
14. Amsons Real Estate
Amsons Real Estate is the group’s property arm, focused on commercial and residential real estate services and consultancy in Tanzania. It gives the group exposure to property development and leasing linked to its industrial footprint.
15. Amsons Group (T) Ltd
Amsons Group Tanzania is the parent operating company behind several of the group’s brands, including Camel Cement. It anchors the group’s multi sector structure in Tanzania and serves as the central corporate platform for manufacturing, energy and logistics expansion.
16. Amsons Industries (T) Limited
Amsons Industries Tanzania is the industrial entity referenced in takeover documents as the parent behind Amsons Industries Kenya, the vehicle used in the Bamburi transaction. It is described in transaction materials as active in manufacturing, storage and trading related businesses.
17. Amsons Industries (K) Ltd
Amsons Industries Kenya is the special purpose investment vehicle that made the takeover offer for Bamburi Cement. It became the transaction arm through which Nahdi’s group executed the Kenya entry and consolidation strategy.
18. Pacific Cement Limited
Pacific Cement Limited is one of the Mauritius based investment companies used in Nahdi linked ownership structures for Kalahari Cement. It is a key holding vehicle in the ownership chain tied to the East African Portland Cement transaction.
19. Comercio Et Conseil Limited
Comercio Et Conseil Limited is the second Mauritius based holding company in the Kalahari Cement ownership structure. Together with Pacific Cement, it forms part of the shareholding chain connected to Nahdi’s cement acquisitions in Kenya.
20. East African Portland Cement Company
East African Portland Cement is another major Kenyan cement target in Nahdi’s expansion strategy. Through Kalahari Cement and Bamburi’s existing holding, Nahdi linked interests acquired control of the company after the NSSF stake transaction, giving him a commanding position in one of Kenya’s historic cement producers and owner of the Blue Triangle brand.
