01
Fair price
Formats for every budget, from hypermarkets to a hard discounter, and private labels that keep everyday products affordable.
Twenty-four years
of retail in Kyrgyzstan.
From one neighbourhood store in 2002 to a holding with retail, production, logistics and projects across Central Asia.
01 / Story
Since July 2002
One store
became a system.
Umai grew one format at a time. Every new chain answered a new shopper, and every new shop floor needed more production, warehouses and trucks behind it.
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2002
The first Narodny store
Umai opens its first neighbourhood store in Bishkek — about 350 m² and everyday products close to home.
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2015
Globus
The Globus chain launches and grows into the largest in the country, with Express, supermarket and hypermarket formats.
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2021
Dostor
A hard discounter with about 1,200 of the most popular products at the lowest prices.
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2023
SPAR
The international supermarket brand arrives in Kyrgyzstan with its first stores in Bishkek and Balykchy.
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2026
A holding for Central Asia
Umai Group becomes a holding, brings in an IFC credit line and enters Kazakhstan with 49 Vkusnaya Korzinka supermarkets.
02 / What we stand for
Price. Quality.
Accessibility.
Three words behind every store, every private label and every supplier contract.
02
Quality you can check
Our own bakery and kitchen factory, sanitary standards and control from the supplier to the shelf.
03
Close to every home
More than 170 stores in every region of the country, online delivery and a store within walking distance.
03 / Structure
Umai Group
One holding.
Several businesses.
Umai Group unites the existing businesses and future projects of the group in Central Asia. Retail remains the core.
Holding company for Central Asia
Umai Group
01
Umai Retail
Globus, Narodny, Dostor and SPAR — more than 170 stores in Kyrgyzstan.
02
Production
Bakery, kitchen factory and five private labels.
03
Distribution and logistics
Nine distribution centres, our own fleet and routes around the clock.
04
Regional projects
Vkusnaya Korzinka — 49 supermarkets in Taraz and the south of Kazakhstan.
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Rud Pedersen
- Financial partner
- IFC — International Finance Corporation
04 / In numbers
The scale
behind the brand.
- 170+
- stores in Kyrgyzstan
- 280K
- shoppers every day
- 7,500
- people on the team
- 20,000
- products on the shelves
- 13,000+
- loaves baked every day
- 9
- distribution centres
- 2B som
- in taxes every year
- Top 20
- largest taxpayers in the country
05 / Responsibility
Business that works
for the country.
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01
Jobs
About 7,500 people across Kyrgyzstan work in our stores, warehouses, kitchens and offices.
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02
Taxes
Around 2 billion som a year and a place among the country's twenty largest taxpayers.
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03
Local producers
Domestic producers are key partners on our shelves and in our private labels.