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Bamburi Cement was founded in 1951 by Felix Mandl, a director of the Swiss firm Cementia Holding, as a partnership between Cementia and the British company Blue Circle Industries,…

Limuru Tea is one of the smallest, most thinly traded counters on the entire NSE, a single 282-hectare tea estate whose shares can swing by double digits on just…

Eaagads traces its roots to 1946, when the company was incorporated as a private limited liability company to grow coffee on an estate in the highlands of Kiambu County,…

Sasini’s roots go back to 1952, eleven years before Kenya’s independence, when the business began as a single farm coffee growing operation in what was then the Kenya Colony.…

Kakuzi is East Africa’s largest avocado producer and one of the oldest agricultural estates on the NSE, with roots stretching back to a colonial-era sisal plantation. History and Founding…

Kapchorua’s roots stretch back further than almost any other company in this series, to 1869, when tea growing first began on the estate that would eventually bear its name,…

A note before starting: Eveready East Africa is a small, financially distressed manufacturer, and its own auditors have flagged going concern doubts in recent years. This post covers the…

A note before starting: Flame Tree Group is a manufacturer and FMCG company, not a bank or insurer, and it’s a much smaller business than the others covered in…

Africa Mega Agricorp is one of the smallest and most recently transformed companies on the entire NSE, and its story is really two stories in one. For most of…

Unga Group is Kenya’s only publicly listed flour miller and one of the country’s oldest companies, with roots stretching back to 1908. It’s also been through one of the…