Ohlthaver & List Group (short O&L or Ohlthaver & List) is the largest private Namibian company group. It has its headquarters in Windhoek central business district.
The company was founded in 1919 by Carl List[3] and Herman Ohlthaver. It was headquartered near the post office. In 1929 a bigger building was bought on the corner of Peter Müller (today Fidel Castro Street) and Kaiserstraße (today Independence Avenue).[4] This building was soon named Carl List Haus. It is today known as the Alexander Forbes House and still the headquarters of the company group.[5]
The company is in its third generation, and owner of Wernhil Park Mall facilities. It is the largest private-sector employer in the country and has over 5,000 employees.[6]
Companies
O & L include:
- O&L Centre - Property and shopping area
- Broll Namibia - real estate acquisition, management
- Namibia Breweries Limited
- Hangana - fishing and processing
- Namibia Dairies, including the Super dairy farm !Aimab - milk production and processing, milk products[7]
- Model Pick 'n Pay Namibia - Trading Company
- O&L Leisure - Hotels
- Kraatz - Engineering
- Dimension Data Namibia - Information Technology
- Windhoek abattoir - slaughterhouse
- Eros Air - in-house charter airline
- O&L Project Management
- O&L Nexentury
- windhoek schlachterei
- O&L Brand X
- O&L Fresh Produce
- BrandTribe
- Hartlief
- O&L Organic Energy Solutions
External links
References
- Deon Schlechter. Govt asked to import more milk from SA New Era, 24 July 2014, retrieved 17 August 2014^
- Ohlthaver & List - Company Info - Management retrieved 2014-08-17^
- Wie das Strandhotel Form annimmt Allgemeine Zeitung, retrieved 2017-08-17^
- Jo-Maré Duddy. Bigger, better Wernhil Park opens its doors to shoppers The Namibian, 5 August 2011^
- Carl List House Refurbishment - Carl List Mall - Alexander Forbes House artefacts.co.za, retrieved 16 November 2021^
- Ohlthaver & List - Company Info www.ohlthaverlist.com, retrieved 2017-08-17^
- Freeman Ngulu. Namibia: Dairies Scramble for Higher Output Namibia Economist (Windhoek), 2014-07-25, retrieved 2017-08-17^