Welcome to Car & General

Car & General History Car & General is the company behind a wide range of power generation, automotive and engineering products in East Africa for 75 years. Car & General is headquatered in Nairobi with branches in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Kitengela and Eldoret. It has subsidiaries in Uganda (Kampala) with a branch in Ndeeba, Mbarara, Tanzania (Dar-es-Salaam) with branches in Arusha, Mwanza and Zanzibar and Rwanda in Kigali. As part of Tanzania´s operation, Car & General operates Kibo Poultry Products Limited one of the oldest chicken broiler farms on the African continent, situated at Moshi. Car & General is the master distributor for Cummins (gensets, engines & parts) in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Seychelles and Somalia.

To provide power for better living and make customers smile on every street, in every town.

To be the leading organization in East Africa in power generation, automotive and engine related products.

Today,our banner is Power for better Living.

Car and General has six main values that help to live up to it commitments:

1) Customer focus – “making customers smile”
2) Integrity – “doing the right thing every minute every day”
3) Innovation – “doing it better than yesterday”
4) Empowerment – “taking ownership”
5) Quality – “in everything we do”
6) Discipline – “disciplined people, disciplined thought, disciplined action”

Our product range covers power generation,automotive and engine-related products. We represent several reputable international brand names in East Africa.

They include Cummins diesel generators, TVS and Suzuki motorcycles, Piaggio three wheelers, LML Scooters, Briggs & Stratton small petrol engines - water pumps, lawn mowers,generators, brush cutters, Ingersoll-Rand air compressors and light construction equipment, Mariner outboard engines, Champion spark plugs, Ferodo brake pads and linings, Eutectic-Castolin welding rods and Electrolux laundry equipment.

Our journey from good to great means that we understand that customer focus is an issue of integrity. We deliver what we promise - providing power for better living by delivering smiles and fulfillment to every customer. In addition to the respected quality of these products, we hold knowledgeable and reliable parts and spares, coupled with timely and effective after sales service carried out by competent people We want to be the market leader in all our core products in the East African region

Car & General from its humble beginings has become one of the top business firms in East Africa, playing an important role in regional development of commerce and trade. East Africa is a developing region and we must keep abreast with the changing environment. At Car & General, we are very positive of the future, we will continue to invest and expand into the region.