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Kenya’s leather City to Host SMEs

January 30, 2015(0) Comments

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will be integrated in the proposed Kenanie Industrial Leather City, the Cabinet Secretary for Industrialization & Enterprise Development Adan Mohamed has said. Spea ...

Kenya launches two Diaspora Saccos in Qatar

January 30, 2015(0) Comments

The push to deepen the already successful Sacco movement in Kenya has yielded two new Saccos in Qatar to tap on growing Diaspora remittances to Kenya. Corniche investment Sacco and the Kenya Qatar Coo ...

Kenyan firm gets Sh 183m to expand solar business

January 30, 2015(1) Comment

Orb Energy (“Orb”) has closed a Sh 183 million ($2mln) equity investment with Netherland’s premier development finance institution, FMO, to replicate its unique retail model for solar energy in Kenya. ...

Employee engagement fills DHL’s external business awards basket

January 28, 2015(1) Comment

DHL has won a record number of external awards for its business in Sub Saharan Africa in 2014 – almost triple that of 2013 – demonstrating the success from its 2014 strategy to create greater service ...

Kenya woos Turkey’s Leather Sector

January 28, 2015(0) Comments

The Government is taking its renewed focus on the leather sector right to the door steps of the world’s best players in the industry. Industrialization and Enterprise Development Cabinet Secretary Ada ...

Africa grapples with growing data hungry population

January 28, 2015(0) Comments

Over 90 percent of all the data in the world was created in the past two years, and the total amount of data being captured and stored by industry doubles almost year on year. It is expected that by 2 ...

Re-think: Raging digital migration debate

January 27, 2015(1) Comment

The past week has been awash with media reports putting the spotlight on the raging digital migration debate after the Communication Authority withdrew the digital broadcast license for Citizen, ntv a ...

Fortune Magazine ranks kenya top seven Emerging markets

January 26, 2015(0) Comments

Kenya has been ranked as one the seven top investment destinations to watch in emerging markets by Fortune magazine. The ranking takes note of the massive efforts being made in infrastructure developm ...

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