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Express Kenya is one of the older names on the exchange. For most of its modern life it was a transport and logistics business: it hauled goods, cleared cargo…

Standard Group publishes The Standard, Kenya’s oldest newspaper, and owns KTN television. It has been printing the news since 1902, and it has also been losing money for years:…

Longhorn Publishers is the biggest indigenous educational publisher in East Africa: the company behind many of the textbooks and storybooks Kenyan schoolchildren use. It started in 1965 as the…

WPP Scangroup is the only marketing and advertising group listed on the NSE, and the home of Ogilvy Africa. It grew from a one-man agency into the region’s biggest…

NBV started as an importer and retailer of leather shoes and accessories, buying mainly from China and India and selling them in Nairobi first under the brand “Kwanza Shoes”…

Nation Media Group is the publisher of the Daily Nation and the owner of NTV, and for 66 years it was held by the Aga Khan network. That chapter…

TPS Eastern Africa is the listed company behind Serena Hotels, the safari lodge and hotel chain whose properties sit inside Kenya’s best known national parks. It was created as…

Sameer Africa is the NSE’s best known corporate reinvention: for fifty years it was the company behind the Yana tyre (“Africa rides on Yana tyres”) and Kenya’s only tyre…

Kenya Airways is the “Pride of Africa”, a national flag carrier that became the first on the continent to be successfully privatised. It is also one of the most…