Welcome to GABIGA GROUP OF COMPANIES:
GABIGA Group is a privately owned group of companies operating in Papua New Guinea. The group operates in the following industry sectors: Coffee processing and exporting, Supermarket retail and wholesale, Road transport trucking and Petroleum products and services.
Late Mr. Gabriel Igaso is the managing director and owner of the Gabiga Group of Companies. Late Mr. Igaso has been in business for over 20 years and had a wealth of experiences in operating businesses within various industries until his untimely passing on 01st November 2021 after a short illness. Before his untimely passing, he had already established a very strong foundation for all his businesses to build upon and thrive in his absence.
Late Mr. Igaso has established and managed Highlands Food Supplies Limited profitably over the years and has attained assets and stretched out its operations as far as Lae and Goroka. The company, Highlands Food Supplies has several fast-food outlets, supermarket and gas stations operating in Kainantu and Goroka and has assets worth more than K100 million at current value.
In 2008, Highlands Food Supplies Limited diversified into the transport and coffee industries. Gabiga Coffee Limited under his management has gained the reputation as the 4th highest exporter of green bean coffee in 2014 according to Coffee Industry corporation (CIC) coffee export statistics and is still an exporter today competing among the world coffee exporters in Papua New Guinea. He has also managed the transport business well over the thirteen (13) years of its operations while he was still alive.
The business started very small in June 2008 with only one (1) single Isuzu twin steer truck and over the years has increased its fleets with similar twin steer models to twenty-six (26), two (2) prime movers, two and (2) side lifters. The transport business has also acquired other machineries and equipment and is gradually diversifying into civil construction. This proves very much, late Mr. Gabriel Igaso’s determinations, talents and capabilities.
Late Mr. Gabriel Igaso is a meticulous character, very decisive, God fearing, and has exceptional leadership quality and stamina to lead the Gabiga Group of Companies to success. His lasting legacy is the statement of the survival of Gabiga Group of Companies through the trying times the business went through without him.