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Adherence to strong ethics and governance practices is critical in the creation of resilient supply chain structures that can withstand global crises and deliver on set goals. This was revealed during a stakeholder engagement forum for Supply Chain professionals in Kenya that organized by the financial services firm Liaison Group. It also emerged that weak links within the system are always...

Kenya’s new leadership is on a quest to discard the seemingly counterproductive economic policies rolled out by the previous administration targeting the Coast as it sets the stage for the growth under Kenya Kwanza manifesto. The former regime’s decision to put up inland container depots in Nairobi and Naivasha, taking away operations from the Port of Mombasa brought grave economic detriment to the coastal...

The world’s population is expected to increase to nine billion by 2050, which means the demand for food is expected to increase by 70 percent. In Africa, growth models project the continent’s current population of about 1.3 billion people will nearly double to 2.5 billion by 2050—and it’s likely to keep growing beyond that. These trends mean that market demand for...

East African Breweries Ltd (EABL) will use macadamia shells, coffee and rice husks as well as sugarcane bagasse to power its biomass plants in Kenya and Uganda as the beer maker edges closer to dumping the use of heavy fuels in its manufacturing process. The Nairobi Securities Listed company has set a target of cutting carbon emissions by up to 95 percent or roughly...

President William Ruto has lobbied authorities in South Korea to ease the rather restrictive duties levied on Kenyan exports by the East Asian country as Nairobi seeks to increase the volume of shipments to the far East. Kenya’s Head of State urged the host country’s Parliament to review the existing trade framework between the two countries, which he said, tilts the scales in favor...

Family Bank’s net income for the first nine months of the year hit Kes3.3 billion, a 34 percent improvement from Kes2.5 billion earned in the same period last year. Higher demand for credit spurred a rally in the bank’s interest income, which went up by Kes1.7 billion to close the third quarter at Kes9.5 billion, up from Kes7.8 billion realized in a comparable period...