How to own a piece of Quickmart for Sh7.50 a share, straight from your phone

Kenyans have walked into Quickmart for many years to purchase bread, milk and other important items in their weekly shopping list, but now they can walk out as part-owners.

Quickmart’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) is open, and for the first time, buying into a listed company does not need a broker’s office, a stack of forms or a morning in a long queue.

The IPO offer is now available on Ziidi Trader, which is domiciled inside Safaricom’s M-PESA My OneApp.

The Quickmart shares are priced at Sh7.50 each, meaning a few hundred shillings is enough to become a shareholder in a brand many Kenyans already know from their daily shopping.

The process is built for convenience and all you need to do is open your My OneApp, go to Ziidi Trader, choose the Quickmart IPO and apply: No forms to fill and no queues to join.

As an investor, you can apply as many times as you like, at any hour, every day of the week, until the offer closes.

For example, a student who sets aside Sh750 this week can add more next week, and a trader who has a good month can top up before the deadline.

Once you apply, your invested money is held safely until shares are allocated.

In that case, the money for any shares not allocated is refunded straight to your M-PESA wallet.

Allocated shares appear in your Ziidi Trader portfolio, and you receive a confirmation SMS as proof of your ownership, which is kept on the same mobile phone you use every day.

• October 30, 2026: offer closes, and the last day for retail investors to pay

• November 6, 2026: results announced and investors notified of their allocation

• November 12, 2026: Quickmart lists and starts trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)

Once Quickmart lists on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), shareholders can sell their shares through Ziidi Trader whenever they choose.

If the firm declares dividends, they can be paid directly to the investor’s M-PESA line with no need for bank visits or paperwork: your share of the profits land in your mobile wallet.

For a long time, IPOs felt like they were for the well-connected and mobile investing has changed that with buying a share as simple as paying a bill, allowing more Kenyans to own a stake in the businesses they believe in.

Do you want to own a piece of Quickmart retail chain? The window is short: The offer closes on October 30, 2026.

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