OSMA Group

OSMA Group presents itself as a trading company operating in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia. Its website says it was founded in early 2017 as a sole proprietorship by its owner, Mr Djama Osman, who has more than 25 years of trading experience, and that it then moved to the Djibouti free zone and was incorporated as "OSMA GROUP FZE", where the head office for its regional activities was established. It says it is involved in the wholesale distribution and semi-wholesale of food items as well as construction materials, chemicals and spare parts. Its head office is on Geneva Street, Salam Tower, Office 813, Djibouti City. The group lists affiliates in several countries: OSMA General Trading in Somalia, which imports and distributes sugar, palm oil, milk powder and UHT milk through branches in Berbera, Hargeisa, Borama and Wajale; OSMA Trading Ethiopia, with import and distribution offices in Addis Ababa, Adama and Dire Dawa; and OSMA Impex in Kampala, Uganda, founded in 2024 for coffee export and wholesale distribution of food items. In Djibouti it describes a fully equipped warehouse in the Djibouti International Free Trade Zone (PK23) with 24-hour CCTV, alarms and an automatic firefighting system; ECO TRANSIT (2022), a customs-brokerage and multimodal-transport company with 1,900 sqm of free-zone warehousing; and Choukri Transport (2024), running heavy-load fleets and forklifts. The site cites more than 100 clients and more than 20 global outlets. Its FMCG catalogue includes confectionery such as WOW Tattoo Bubble, WOW Stick Bubble, WOW Melhor Pop Jar, Vampire Bubble and Lovita Toffee, and Crown yellow hybrid popcorn, alongside products under its own Selam label: sunflower oil in 1, 3 and 5-litre packs, palm oil in 3, 5, 20 and 25-litre packs, white oats in 500 g packs, Turkish-made wheat flour in 25 kg bags and 5%-broken Indian parboiled rice in 25 kg bags. It also lists Indian white sugar (ICUMSA 45) in 50 kg bags and UAE-packed red split lentils in sizes from 400 g to 50 kg, and the group exports Ethiopian coffee (Jimma, Yirgacheffe, Harar, Lekempti, Sidamo and Limu) and oil seeds such as sesame, niger seed and peanuts. The group describes its values as honesty, transparency, loyalty and respect, its vision as becoming one of the most reliable trading sources worldwide, and its mission as delivering what it promises and contributing to its customers' prosperity. Besides Selam it owns non-food brands for batteries and paper and also trades car tyres and polymers, which this profile does not cover.