CITY MART:
SUPPLY AND DEMAND From humble beginnings at her father’s retail space in Aung San Stadium, Daw Win Win Tint has grown Myanmar’s first modern supermarket, City Mart, into Myanmar’s preeminent retail and distribution group, City Holdings. Taking the reins of the company at just twenty-one years of age, Daw Win Win Tint is now regarded as one of Myanmar’s foremost business figures. In 2014 she became the first Burmese woman to make Forbes’ Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen list. City Holdings now operates over 200 different retail channels across the country. MYANMORE sat down with the CEO to discuss the history of City Holdings, the group’s closely monitored reaction to the Covid-19 crisis, the value of market knowledge in an emerging economy, and doing business over twenty five years of rapid change and growth within Myanmar. TEXT: SAM D. FOOT PHOTOS: ZWE WINT HTET
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Magazine | NR 43, 2020
