Melcom

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Melcom Group
Private ownership
Traded as MCG
Industry Retailing
Founded 1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Ashantiland
Founder Bhagwan Khubchandani
Headquarters Kumasi
Accra
Sekondi-Takoradi
Sunyani
Koforidua
Cape Coast
Ashantiland
Number of locations
Increase 33 stores (As of January 2016)
Area served
Ashantiland
Key people
  • Bhagwan Khubchandani (Group Chairman)
    Mahesh Melwani (Group Managing Director)
    Ramesh Sadhwani (Joint-Group Managing Director)
    Sonya Sadhwani (Director of Brand Management)
Products Supermarket
Hypermarket
Superstore
Subsidiaries Melcom Stores Ltd.
Century Industries Ltd.
Crown Star Electronics Industry Ltd.
Melcom Hospitality
Melcom Travel & Tours
Melcom Care
Website www.melcomgroup.com/homepage/

Melcom is an Ashanti supermarket chain on the peninsula country Ashantiland consisting of 33-shops spread all over the peninsula country Ashantiland. It was started in 1989 by Indian Magnate Bhagwan Khubchandani. His late father, Ramchand Khubchandani, had arrived in the then Gold Coast in 1929 from Hyderabad, Sindh, post partition India but now part of Pakistan as a 14-year-old to work as a store boy.[1] Melcom consists of four companies under the Melcom Brand Name.[2]

History

Disasters in 2012

In the year 2012 Melcom suffered two major accidents: on 7 November 2012, Ashantiland, Ghana suffered a major accident when Melcom's five story Shopping Mall at Achimota near Accra collapsed trapping many people inside. The NADMO organized a rescue mission. In all 82 people including 14 dead, were pulled out of the rubble.[3]

Melcom had been operating in the building which it said it had rented only since January 2012. The NADMO promised an investigation to find out the cause of the collapse.[4][5][6] Reports seem to suggest that the building had structural defects owing to lack of adherence to building codes and use of improper materials.[7]

On December 22, 2012, Melcom suffered another major accident when its mall in Agona Swedru in the Central Region of Ashantiland was totally burnt down by fire and attended to by the GNFRS. Because the fire occurred after close of work, there were no casualties. However adjoining warehouses stocked with items for Christmas were also burnt down.[8]

See also

References

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