Trushar Khetia, is a Kenyan businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and current chairman and CEO of the Tria Group of companies, including a chain of supermarkets known as Society Stores Supermarkets.
Background and education
He was born on 29 November 1986 in
Kitale
Kitale is an agricultural town in northern Rift Valley Kenya situated between Mount Elgon and the Cherangany Hills at an elevation of around . Its population is 106,187 as of 2009. Kitale is the headquarter town of Trans-Nzoia County. Kitale is r ...
, in the
Trans-Nzoia County
Trans-Nzoia County is a county in the former Rift Valley Province, Kenya, located between the Nzoia River and Mount Elgon, 380 km northwest of Nairobi. At its centre is the town of Kitale which is the capital and largest town. The count ...
of Kenya. The family owned a retail shop which has since morphed into ''Khetia Supermarkets''.
He studied at a local elementary school before transferring to Nairobi schools for his O-Level and A-Level studies. At age 17, in 2004, he was admitted to
Manchester Business School, graduating in 2007, with the degree of
Bachelor of Business Management, specializing in marketing.
Career
Following graduation from university, he found employment in the United Kingdom, as a business development manager at
Procter & Gamble
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(P&G), working there for 3 years until 2010. In June 2011, he returned to Kenya and worked in the family business in Kitale for one year. Following disagreements with some family members regarding business direction, he decided to relocate to Nairobi and strike out on his own. In 2013, he started Tria Group, a business that specializes in advertising on transit media like buses and airplanes. He started the business in Kenya and in 2014 he opened up a similar business in Tanzania.
In November 2014, using his savings from the P&G days, profits from his transit media businesses and loans from family and friends, Trushar Khetia acquired an operating supermarket in Thika, inclusive of stock. He closed the store down for ten days while re-branding and then opened his first Society Stores supermarket.
As at March 2016, Society Stores owns and operates four supermarkets in Thika,
Maua,
Meru
Meru may refer to:
Geography Kenya
* Meru, Kenya, a city in Meru County, Kenya
** Meru County, created by the merger of
*** Meru Central District
*** Meru North District
*** Meru South District
* Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park
Tanza ...
and
Naivasha
Naivasha is a large town in Nakuru County, Kenya, lying by road north west of Nairobi.
Overview
The town has a total population of 198,444 (2019 census).
The main industry is agriculture, especially floriculture.
Naivasha is also a popular t ...
, with plans to open in
Limuru and
Nairobi
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in 2016.
See also
*
List of wealthiest people in Kenya
The following is a list of Kenya's richest. It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by ''Forbes'' magazine.
Kenya is the largest economy in the East African Community, the 3rd largest economy in Sub-Saharan ...
References
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Living people
Kenyan people of Indian descent
Kenyan businesspeople
Kenyan people of Gujarati descent
1986 births