BIOGRAPHY
Win Win Tint took over the family supermarket when she was just 21, right after returning from university in Singapore, and she has since built the single-store operation into one of Myanmar’s leading retail chains.
She also founded the Pahtama Group, one of the country’s fastest-growing distributors of consumer products,and currently serves as president of the Myanmar Retailers’ Association.
Win Win Tint, who was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013, established the Love and Hope Foundation as a vehicle for corporate social responsibilityandsays she wants to see her companies giving back to the community invariousways. The foundation’s main areas of focus are education, health, the environment, and community living. Her companies also promote corporate social responsibility outside of the foundation, including through blood-donation drives, art exhibitions, and programs to encourage support for athletes.
city mart holdings
City Mart Holdings is a leading Myanmar retailer that operates in major cities via multiple formats, including supermarkets, hypermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacies, bookstores, children’s stores, and specialty stores such as bakeries and cafés.
The company expanded from a single family supermarket that served mainly upscale and expatriate customers by focusing on volume in mass-market products to drive down costs and make the outlets accessible to the general population. In this way, City Mart helped to bring modern retailing to a traditional commercial sector. Today the company has around 4,000 employees and is assessing the possibility of setting up its own retail-training school.
One significant moment for the company was Cyclone Nargis, which in 2008devastated the Irrawaddy Delta, causing more than 100,000 deaths. City Mart made sure all its stores opened the following day with no price increases, to help local populations find basics and essentials. The company also helped supply pumps, drinking water, clothes, building materials, and many other essentials to one of the worst-hit towns.
The Pahtama Group is the exclusive distributor in Myanmar for many multinational companies, including P&G, Cerebos, Abbott Laboratories, Nestlé, and Kellogg’s.