West Hills Mall

What West Hills Mall does

West Hills Mall is a physical retail shopping centre located on Winneba Road in the Dunkonah/New Weija district of Accra, Ghana. The property operates as a 3-storey facility comprising a basement, ground floor, and first floor, and is described as the largest shopping mall in Ghana and West Africa. The mall opened in October 2014 and currently hosts approximately 60 retail tenants across six categories: Fashion & Footwear, Tech & Electronics, Health & Beauty, Restaurants & Food, Home & Décor, and Services & Speciality.

The tenant roster includes international and local banks (Standard Chartered, Stanbic Bank, First National Bank), ATMs (ABSA, UMB), retail chains (Melcom), furniture and home goods stores (Ashfoam, A.J. Boaz Furniture, Maydan Home Deco), and specialty services (Dellino Forex Bureau, Aromatic Laundry, Jays Auto Spa, Uniauto). The facility operates daily from 10am to 8pm. The company employs 41 staff in management roles including Marketing, Operations, and Finance.

The business model centres on commercial real estate: generating revenue through retail space leasing to tenants, service charges, and ancillary income from the diversified tenant mix. Property management is outsourced to Broll Ghana, an established African property management firm, as indicated by the Operations Manager's corporate email domain. The company is privately held with no disclosed parent company or institutional investors. No funding rounds, expansion plans, or technology initiatives are publicly documented.

Name

West Hills Mall

Legal name

West Hills Mall

Website

https://westhillsmallgh.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

West Hills Mall is a 3-storey shopping centre in Accra, Ghana, opened in October 2014 and described as the largest mall in Ghana and West Africa. It leases space to 60+ retail tenants across fashion, electronics, food, home décor, and services categories.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New Weija

HQ country

Ghana

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

West Hills Mall is a physical shopping mall and retail center operating as the largest mall in West Africa. The facility provides retail space leasing to approximately 60+ tenants across Fashion & Footwear, Tech & Electronics, Health & Beauty, Restaurants & Food, Home & Décor, and Services & Speciality categories, alongside on-site amenities including a cinema complex, radio station, food court, and parking.

Product overview

West Hills Mall is a unified retail mall offering — a physical shopping center that provides retail space leasing, property management, and customer-facing services. Opened in October 2014, the mall offers access to electronic, beauty, lifestyle, financial, pharmaceutical, healthcare services, recreational needs, and restaurants and eateries. The mall spans three floors: basement for parking and management offices, ground floor for retail shops and food court, and first floor for restaurant, cinema, and radio station. The mall's product portfolio consists of the single West Hills Mall property, which houses multiple retail tenants across Fashion & Footwear, Tech & Electronics, Health & Beauty, Restaurants & Food, Home & Décor, and Services & Speciality categories.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• West Hills Mall Physical shopping mall and retail center in New Weija, Accra, Ghana, serving as the largest mall in West Africa. Provides retail space leasing and aggregates 60+ retail tenants across Fashion & Footwear, Tech & Electronics, Health & Beauty, Restaurants & Food, Home & Décor, and Services & Speciality categories, along with amenities including a cinema complex, radio station, food court, and parking facilities for consumers in the Greater Accra Region.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Others

• Melcom Group: Ghana-headquartered multi-format retail chain operating stores in West Hills Mall and across West Africa. Comparable as a domestic anchor tenant whose Ghanaian retail footprint overlaps with the mall's catchment.
• Broll Property Group: Pan-African commercial real estate services firm providing property management, leasing, and facilities services. Operationally linked to West Hills Mall through its Ghana office and directly comparable as a peer in mall operations support.

Broad incumbents

• Hyprop Investments: JSE-listed REIT focused on dominant shopping malls in South Africa and select African markets. A broader incumbent comparable on mall-asset ownership economics, leasing strategy, and tenant mix in sub-Saharan Africa.
• AttAfrica: Pan-African retail real estate investor and operator managing multiple shopping centres across the continent. Broadly comparable as a larger, more diversified player in the same organised African mall property segment.

Direct peers

• The Palms Shopping Mall (Lagos): Large enclosed shopping mall in Lekki, Lagos, with a similar mix of fashion, electronics, cinema, and F&B. A close regional comparable given shared West African shopper profile and international retail tenant overlap.
• Accra Mall: Major modern shopping mall in Tetteh Quarshie, Accra, offering multi-category retail, dining, and entertainment. Directly comparable as a Ghanaian organised mall competing for the same branded tenants and Accra-region shoppers.
• Sarit Centre: Iconic enclosed mall in Westlands, Nairobi, with fashion, electronics, home, F&B, and cinema tenants. Comparable as a long-established East African regional mall anchor with a similar multi-category positioning.
• Junction Mall (Accra): Multi-storey shopping centre located in Nungua, Accra, with a comparable mix of fashion, electronics, F&B, and entertainment. Directly competes for tenants and shoppers in the Greater Accra organised-mall segment.
• Westgate Shopping Mall (Nairobi): Major enclosed shopping mall in Westlands, Nairobi, offering retail, dining, and cinema. Comparable as a large sub-Saharan African mall with similar tenant categories, although operating in a different geography.
• Ikeja City Mall: Modern shopping mall in Ikeja, Lagos, operated by Broll Property Group. Directly comparable on tenant mix, entertainment amenities, and Broll-led management model that also underpins West Hills Mall.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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