the CPL story

Historically, the CPL Group, which started with a single City Pharmacy store in 1987, has diversified both through acquisition and by launching new retail ventures. It now has 59 retail outlets across Papua New Guinea.

In 2005, it acquired the Stop N Shop supermarket chain from Steamships Trading Company, and in 2009 also acquired the Steamships Hardware chain, rebranding it as Hardware Haus.

Between 2011 and 2013, it launched three new brands into the PNG market: Bon Cafe, Eagle Boys Pizza and Paradise Cinema, PNG’s first multiplex.

In its most ambitious move to date, CPL opened the Waigani Central shopping complex last year. The complex is the site not only of PNG’s largest Shop N Stop outlet, but also Bon Cafe and City Pharmacy outlets, Port Moresby’s second Paradise Cinema and a new DIY concept store, Haus Depot.