Founder
Late Salim Turky
Visionary entrepreneur whose leadership built a diverse business empire dedicated to growth and community.
About
Forty Years. One Vision. Building Tanzania.
Vigor Group of Companies began as a local tailoring mart in Zanzibar in the early 1980s. Four decades later it is one of Tanzania's leading diversified business groups — still family-led, still rooted at home, and still guided by the belief that enterprise should serve the community that sustains it.
Our Purpose
Value created in Tanzania, kept in Tanzania.
We invest in supplies, services and local talent in ways that create value, generate employment and improve quality of life for the communities we serve. Every business we enter is chosen for the same reason as the first: because Tanzania needed it done properly.
That purpose is expressed daily through the principles the founder set — integrity in how we trade, professionalism in how we deliver, empathy for the people we serve and accountability for the results we produce.
Late Salim Turky · Founder
The Founder
Late Salim Turky
Behind that first Zanzibar storefront stood a young entrepreneur with an unfashionable idea: that quality should not be a privilege. He priced fairly, delivered on time, and treated every customer as a long-term relationship rather than a transaction. Word travelled, and the mart grew.
What he built next was shaped by the same instinct. Where he saw a gap that mattered — reliable supply, decent hospitality, proper healthcare — he stepped into it, and insisted the standard be set locally rather than imported.
"To be pioneer is offering top notch products and services to the general public at the rate they can afford, whenever we do business."
That sentence remains the group's compass. His generosity continues through the Salim Turky Foundation, and his standards continue in every business that carries the Vigor name.
Growth
From one storefront to seven business verticals.
Growth came steadily rather than suddenly. Trade led to logistics; logistics led to manufacturing; property followed the businesses that needed it; healthcare and hospitality followed the communities that asked for it. Each step was funded by the last and judged by whether it made everyday life better.
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Vigor Group Headquarters
Our Journey
A story written over four decades.
1980s
A single storefront
Salim Turky opens a tailoring mart in Zanzibar on one promise: honest work, fairly priced.
1990s
Into trade and logistics
The business expands into general trade, logistics and industrial supply across Tanzania, earning a reputation for reliability.
2000s
One enterprise becomes many
The group enters real estate, hospitality and manufacturing — building institutions rather than storefronts.
2010s
Healthcare and landmarks
Ampola Regency and Tasakhtaa hospitals open, and work begins on the Zanzibar Waterfront.
Today
A diversified group
Seven connected business verticals, thousands of Tanzanian employees and partnerships reaching from East Africa to Asia.
Our Vision
The next decades: wider reach, same compass.
To be a pioneer in offering top-notch products and services at prices people can afford, wherever we do business. Practically, that means growing into one of East Africa's most trusted diversified groups, deepening international partnerships from East Africa to Asia, and investing in innovation and the next generation of Tanzanian talent.
Ambition on that scale only works when it is patient. We plan in decades, not quarters — which is why innovation and compassion sit side by side in how we choose what to build next.
Leadership
The people guiding the group.
Board & Executive
Chairman
Taufiq Salim Turky
Provides strategic leadership and governance, guiding the group's vision, growth and long-term success.
Chief Executive Officer
Abdallah Salim Turky
Leads overall operations and strategic execution, driving business growth, performance and innovation.
Ambassador
Khaytham Salim Turky
Represents and promotes the group's vision, values and partnerships locally and internationally.
Directors
Commercial Director
Zahra Mkhtar
Managing Director
Martin Chamussy
Resident Director, China
Oloo Dickson
Heads of Departments
Head of Human Resources
Bushiri Mosi
Head of Legal
Sins Mwangi
Head of ICT
Iddi Said
Head of Logistics
Azhad Hassan
Head of Internal Audit
Kelvin Danson
Head of Business Development
Juma Mnaro
Legacy
The Salim Turky Foundation.
The founder gave quietly for most of his life. The Foundation formalised that habit, carrying his generosity into education, healthcare access, and community support across Zanzibar and the mainland.
It is not a department of the group so much as its conscience — a reminder that the measure of a business is the condition of the community around it.
Looking Forward
Building Tanzania's future.
Our commitment is long-term: to the people we employ and train, to the innovation that keeps our industries competitive, and to a country whose development we intend to be part of for generations. Four decades in, the work still begins the same way it did in 1980s Zanzibar — with a promise kept.