Our Businesses
First Depot is a group of companies
October 2026
First Depot, Inc. is a Delaware technology company and the parent company of the First Depot group. It builds and runs the software, online store and systems used by three companies registered in Uganda: First Depot Hardwares Limited, OxPharm Health Limited and MD Clove. This page explains how the group is organized and what each part does.
How the group is organized
First Depot, Inc. sits at the top. It is a technology company: it does not sell hardware, medicines or groceries itself. Instead it builds the products that the shops run on, and operates them for the group.
Three companies registered in Uganda run the physical businesses, each as its own legal entity: First Depot Hardwares Limited (hardware and home improvement), OxPharm Health Limited (pharmacy) and MD Clove (groceries). New product lines, such as GLS, are run by First Depot, Inc. and sit alongside them in the same group.
First Depot, Inc., a Delaware technology company, is the parent of the group. It builds and runs the technology used by three companies registered in Uganda: First Depot Hardwares Limited, OxPharm Health Limited and MD Clove. Each of those companies is a separate legal entity and runs its own shop.
Our shops
The physical businesses, each a company registered in Uganda: hardware, pharmacy and groceries.
| Business | Run by | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Depot Hardwares | First Depot Hardwares Limited | Our hardware and home improvement store: paints, electricals, pumps and plumbing, tiles and building materials, delivered to where the work is happening. | Operating |
| OxPharm Health | OxPharm Health Limited | Our pharmacy: health, wellness and care products for the home and family. | Operating |
| MD Clove | MD Clove | Our grocery business: food, drinks and household essentials. | Operating |
Our software and technology products
The products First Depot, Inc. builds and runs itself, for the group's shops and for other businesses.
| Product | Run by | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLS (General Ledger System) | First Depot, Inc. | The sales and general ledger software we built to run First Depot Hardwares day to day. Any business can now sign up and subscribe. | Operating - open for other businesses to sign up |
| First Depot Pay | First Depot, Inc. | A payment gateway, starting with the group's own checkout and GLS billing, and eventually offered to other merchants. | Planned |
| First Depot Supply Chain | First Depot, Inc. | A software platform for the transportation and warehousing services we already offer, so other businesses can plan and track deliveries the way we do. | Planned |
First Depot Hardwares
Our original business and the one most people know us for: a hardware and home improvement store, online and in our showroom. It is run by First Depot Hardwares Limited. Read more on the About page, or see its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
OxPharm Health
Our pharmacy, run by OxPharm Health Limited. It stocks health, wellness and care products, and is sold through the same online store as the rest of the group. See Products for what we stock.
MD Clove
Our grocery business: food, drinks and household essentials, also sold through the group's online store. See Products for what we stock.
The technology behind the shops
First Depot, Inc. builds and operates the online store, the ordering and delivery systems, and the sales and stock software that the three shops run on. Because one team runs the technology, a customer can shop hardware, groceries and pharmacy items from the same place, with one account and one checkout.
GLS
GLS (General Ledger System) is the sales and accounting software we built to run First Depot Hardwares: point of sale, stock, and the general ledger behind both. It is run by First Depot, Inc., and we have opened it up so other retail and trade businesses can run it too.
GLS has its own page and its own policies, because it serves a different kind of customer in a different way: see GLS, its Terms of Service and its Privacy Policy.
First Depot Pay
A planned payment gateway. It would first handle payments for the group's shops and GLS billing, then open up to other merchants. We will publish its own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before it launches.
Until then, the online store takes payments through Pesapal, and GLS billing runs through Stripe.
First Depot Supply Chain
A planned software platform for the transportation and warehousing services we already provide (see Products). The goal is to let other businesses plan, book and track deliveries the way we already do internally.
Why GLS has its own policies
Different customers, different data
When you shop with us online, you are buying goods from one of our Ugandan companies. GLS is software that a business runs, holding that business's own sales records, stock and customers. A payment gateway and a supply chain platform would each handle money or logistics data in their own way again.
Rather than stretch one policy to cover all of that, each product publishes its own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, written for what it actually does and who it actually serves. If you only ever shop with us, the store's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are the ones that apply to you.
- Online store (hardware, pharmacy and groceries) - Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
- GLS - Terms of Service, Privacy Policy