Many of Ghana's best-known companies are still run by the people who started them, or by their children.
This list ranks ten of these families by the size of their businesses. We looked first at revenue, where it is published, then at workforce, then at footprint, such as stores, factories and countries. Two of the groups are listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange and publish audited accounts. The others are private and do not publish full results, so their places rest on the figures they have made public.
Figures come from different years. Where a number is not public, we say so.
1. The Adjei family: Kasapreko
Kwabena Adjei founded Kasapreko in 1989 at Nungua, near Accra. Its best-known brand is Alomo Bitters. It also makes Storm energy drink, Awake water and spirits.
Kasapreko had revenue of GHS 3.50 billion in 2025, up from GHS 2.72 billion in 2024, according to its audited accounts. Profit for the year was GHS 354.2 million and total assets were GHS 2.02 billion. It employed 828 people at the end of 2025.
The company listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange in June 2026 after raising GHS 700 million. Investors bid GHS 1.73 billion. The family holds about 85.9% of the shares through Pinnacle Holding, which is owned in equal parts by five members of the Adjei family. At the late September share price, the whole company was worth about GHS 7.3 billion.
Kwabena Adjei is group chairman. His son Richard Adjei became chief executive in 2015 and is now managing director.
2. The Tewiah family: ZEN Petroleum
William Tewiah founded ZEN in 2010. The group imports, stores, transports and sells fuel and lubricants. It runs more than 63 filling stations and supplies about 49% of the fuel used by major mining companies, according to its prospectus.
ZEN's revenue was GHS 6.34 billion in 2025, up from GHS 4.91 billion in 2024. Profit was GHS 436.7 million. Both figures are higher than Kasapreko's. But fuel trading runs on thin margins, and ZEN's stock market value was lower, at about GHS 5.8 billion in early October 2026.
ZEN Petroleum Holdings listed in April 2026 after selling 20% of the company for GHS 640 million. Tewiah, the managing director, held all the shares before the offer, so he keeps about 80%. Unlike most groups on this list, its ownership sits with one person.
3. The Siaw Agyepong family: Jospong Group
In 1995 Joseph Siaw Agyepong turned his mother's small stationery business into a printing press. That became the Jospong Group. In 2006 he set up Zoomlion Ghana, a waste management firm that is now the group's best-known company.
The group says it has about 60 companies in 14 sectors. These include waste and sanitation, banking and finance, ICT, printing, vehicles and equipment, construction, ports and logistics, agriculture, and oil and gas. Figures published in 2025 put its waste treatment plants in Ghana at 36 and the direct and indirect jobs it has created at more than 200,000.
Jospong is private and does not publish group revenue or audited assets. Siaw Agyepong is executive chairman. His wife, Adelaide Siaw-Agyepong, is chief executive of the Asian African Consortium, the group's farming business, which runs a commercial rice project.
4. The Mohinani family: Mohinani Group
Ramchand Mohinani founded the group in Ghana in 1966 with a plastic packaging company. The family is of Indian origin and has been based in Ghana for more than five decades. The group is now run by his three sons, Ashok, Anil and Sunil Mohinani, all born in Africa.
It has three main lines: plastics and packaging, including Polytanks; chemical and polymer trading; and the distribution of electronics, tyres and motorbikes through firms such as Somotex. It has also held the KFC franchise in Ghana since 2011. The group says it employs more than 5,000 people across several countries, including Nigeria and parts of East Africa.
The International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group, approved a US$49.5 million loan to group companies to help build two plastic recycling plants, one in Ghana and one in Nigeria, each able to handle 15,000 tonnes a year. Group revenue is not public.
5. The Khubchandani, Melwani and Sadhwani families: Melcom
Bhagwan Khubchandani set up Melcom in 1989 with his sons-in-law, Mahesh Melwani and Ramesh Sadhwani. Its first store opened in Accra in 1991. The family's roots in Ghana go back to 1929, when his father arrived in the Gold Coast. The family is of Indian origin, and Khubchandani has written that he adopted Ghana as his home.
Melcom says it has more than 72 stores and 12 cash and carry depots in 11 of Ghana's 16 regions, with more than 1.76 million square feet of retail space. It says it employs more than 5,500 people across the group. Other businesses include Century Industries, a plastics maker set up in 2000, and Melcom Travel and Tours. Sales figures are not public.
6. The Mahama family: Engineers & Planners
Ibrahim Mahama founded Engineers & Planners (E&P) in 1997. It is a Ghanaian-owned mining and construction contractor. It has carried out contract mining at the Tarkwa and Damang gold mines and once mined iron ore in Liberia for ArcelorMittal. The company says it employs more than 4,000 workers.
Mahama also owns Dzata Cement, which started operations in August 2021 and has capacity of 2.6 million tonnes a year, and Man Bosch Ghana, which sells Renault trucks. His Asutsuare Poultry Farms can produce 150,000 eggs a day, according to E&P.
In April 2026 the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources said E&P had won a competitive tender for the Damang mining lease, which Gold Fields previously held. Ibrahim Mahama is the brother of President John Dramani Mahama. The government has said the president recused himself from Cabinet discussions on the lease. E&P does not publish its accounts.
7. The McKorley family: McDan Group
Daniel McKorley started McDan as a freight forwarding business in 1999. The group now spans shipping and logistics, aviation, salt and minerals, construction and trade. It works in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Equatorial Guinea.
Its salt business, ElectroChem Ghana, holds a 41,000-acre concession at Songor, near Ada. Ghana's Minerals Income Investment Fund holds an equity stake in ElectroChem.
McKorley is founder and executive chairman, and Lizzy-Ann Kwagbedzi is group chief executive. Revenue, staff numbers and the shareholding of the McKorley family are not public.
8. The Osei Kwame family: Despite Group
Osei Kwame, widely known as Despite, started out selling audio cassettes. His Despite company was registered in 1997, and Peace FM went on air in 1999. The group now runs Okay FM, Neat FM and Hello FM as well as Peace FM, the Peacefmonline website and UTV. UTV is run by U2 Company, which he set up with businessman Ernest Ofori Sarpong.
He also owns food businesses, including Neat Foods and Atona Foods. His eldest son, Kennedy Osei, is general manager of the media group. Revenue and staff figures are not public.
9. The Bediako Sampong family: Ernest Chemists
Ernest Bediako Sampong, a pharmacist, started Ernest Chemists in 1986 as a sole proprietorship. It became a limited company in 1993. It makes, distributes and sells medicines, and exports to Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and The Gambia.
The company says it has more than 50 wholesale and retail outlets and employs more than 1,500 people. It plans to commission a new factory built to good manufacturing practice (GMP) standards. Bediako Sampong is board chairman and Adjoa Akyema Sampong is chief executive. The company describes itself as wholly Ghanaian-owned. Revenue is not public.
10. The Amo Tobbin family: Tobinco Group
Samuel Amo Tobbin set up Tobinco Chemical Company in 1994. It grew into Tobinco Pharmaceuticals, a medicine distributor with 16 branches, and a wider group that had nine subsidiaries in 2021.
These include Entrance Pharmaceuticals and Research Centre, which makes medicines, ABii National Savings and Loans, Priority Insurance, Atinka Media Village and the property firm Toblues. Tobbin is executive chairman of the group and of ABii National. Group revenue and staff numbers are not public.
The bigger picture
The two stock market listings in 2026 gave the public its first full look at the finances of two large family-owned Ghanaian firms. For the others, outsiders still rely on what the companies choose to disclose. More listings would make rankings like this one easier to test.