The Coca-Cola System in Kenya is now rewarding loyal consumers with a three day trip to the ‘Supa Dupa Fly’ music festival in Santorini, Greece. Over 6.8 million consumers stand a chance to win mobile phones, home theatres and exclusive Coke Studio merchandise over the 12-week consumer promotion period dubbed ‘Dunda Majuu na Coke Studio’. Supa Dupa Fly is a one of a kind annual summer music festival at the Greek Island. Due to its beautiful location and wonderful music from international Deejays. Coca-Cola Head of Portfolio and East Markets, Nelly Wainaina, said for them is to consistently reach out…
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Khusoko provides market insights into Africa's business investment as well as global trends that impact East African businesses.
The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), a government parastatal whose responsibility is to assure the quality of agricultural inputs, has failed to secure title deeds for 11 parcels of land. Esther Kimani, the KEPHIS MD on Wednesday told Parliament’s Public Investments Committee that “We don’t have have any document on the land that we own. We also don’t have any letter of allotment. But we are processing titles, but the recovery of the encroached land has been a challenge.” According to the National Land Commission, 48 private developers and grabbers have been allocated leases. In 2012, the Kenya Plant…
2023 marks 35 years after the demise of a former student leader of the University of Nairobi, Titus Adungosi. However, all this time, his family, relatives, friends, clan, and the whole nation at large have never been told exactly what transpired and happened and caused the death of Titus Adungosi while under Kenyan prison care. The late Titus Adungosi was born in 1956 as the fifth child in a family of eight children, although later his father married two more wives and had twelve more children, bringing the total number of children to 20. Adungosi`s father, the late Mzee Longinus…
Horticultural farmers in Kenya stand to benefit from pest control NEMguard, a global player in crop protection, manufactured in the UK aimed at increasing production through sustainable management of plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs). NEMguard® SC is lethal to plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs), but has been classified as having no harmful effects on humans, animals, or the environment, which means it does not appear on the MRL (Maximum Residue Limit) list regulating ingredients growers can use on exported crops. According to Barnaba Rotich, Head of Commercial at Dudutech, “By registering NEMguard® SC in Kenya, Dudutech has allowed farmers to strategically harness its…
Poa! internet, a community internet service provider (ISP) in Kenya, has commenced a strategic expansion plan that will double its network coverage area by the end of April, after being ranked 4th place with 7.5% market share in 2019 by the Communications Authority (CA). The new networks will then be followed in June by the launch of six additional networks across new parts of Kenya, making the ISP five times their current size in just a few months. “Poa is already the fastest growing community ISP in Kenya,” said Andy Halsall, CEO of poa! Internet, “but we are now really…
Former OLX Country Manager and an ex-Amazon Head of Product have launched GoBEBA, an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform in Kenya, that allows customers to shop directly from local merchants and have their goods delivered to them. GoBEBA will also help distribute goods to micro-retailers in small urban centers across the country. Mr. Peter Ndiang’ui, GoBEBA’s Founder and former OLX Country Manager, noted that Africa’s growing young population and burgeoning middle class presents a huge opportunity for e-commerce and logistics companies but to gain widespread consumer adoption, the approach needs to be localized better than the current global players in the…