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BAT Kenya is one of the oldest and most consistently profitable counters on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, and for years it held the title of the exchange’s single most…

East African Breweries is a genuine East African institution: the maker of Tusker, the region’s most recognisable beer, and a company whose history stretches back over a century to…

Liberty Kenya’s roots trace to two separate insurance lines that were later brought under one roof. The general insurance side goes back to 1964, when the Kenya American Insurance…

Safaricom began life in 1993 as a small department within Telkom Kenya, then the state monopoly telecoms operator, running an analogue ETACS network before upgrading to GSM technology in…

Sanlam Allianz Holdings Kenya has one of the more tangled corporate histories on the NSE: a company that started life insuring the Indian community in colonial Kenya, was the…

CIC Insurance Group is Africa’s largest cooperative insurer, born from Kenya’s cooperative movement and still majority owned by it today. It came within a hair of collapse in the…

Jubilee Holdings is East Africa’s oldest and largest composite insurer, tracing its roots to a single Mombasa office in 1937. Nearly ninety years later, it’s grown into a regional…

A quick note on the name before we start: the company most Kenyans know as Housing Finance, and later HF Group, was renamed HFCB Group PLC effective May 22,…

Kenya Re is the oldest reinsurer in Eastern and Central Africa and one of the NSE’s most distinctive counters: a state controlled company that insures other insurers. Born from…

Britam Holdings is one of Kenya’s best known insurance brands and the country’s leading life insurer by market share. It began as a tiny Nairobi office selling weekly premium…