Opportunities in gas business

Cooking gas, also called Liquefied Petroleum Gas ( LPG ), is among products whose market is yet to be fully exploited in Kenya.The product is no longer considered a fuel for the upper and middle income households as many lower income earners are shifting to it for domestic cooking.As rural electrification lights up households in remote Kenya, the same...

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PwC’s growth plan

Consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has unveiled a multi-billion shilling expansion plan that will see it hire 500 partners and staff in Kenya in the next three years in a move that is set to intensify the battle for talent in Kenya’s financial advisory market.The firm said the hiring in Kenya is part of a Sh9 billion investments package...

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How TCL rose from ‘chama’ to a big investorSHARE BOOKMARKPRINTEMAILRATINGTransCentury Chairman Zephania Mbugua (right) with the CEO, Gachao Kiuna, after addressing a press conference at the Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi, where he announced the listing of the company at the Nairobi Stock Exchange, last week. Fredrick Onyango By David Mugwe ...

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Dominion Farms puts power to create wealth in the people’s hands

American investor Calvin Burges heard about the Yala Swamp and its collapsed rice fields from a friend. That was 11 years ago.Today, as he stands, hands akimbo, and casts his eyes across the thousands of acres he has reclaimed he could as well claim to have made economic sense out of a swamp. The rolling rice fields, the John Deer tractors and harvestors...

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