Scangroup, Nairobi Business Ventures postpone financial results to end-month

Scangroup, Nairobi Business Ventures postpone financial results to end-month

NSE CEO Geoffrey Odundo,NBV (Nairobi Business Ventures) Chairman Haresh Soni,NSE Chairman Kiprono Kittony and ABC Group Managing Director Shamaz Savani at NBV’s Bell ringing ceremony NBV listed an additional 415 million shares on the NSE. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard] Listed marketing firm WPP Scangroup and leather retail chain Nairobi Business Ventures (NBV) have further delayed publication of […]

Safaricom’s allure poses headache for big investors

Safaricom’s allure poses headache for big investors

Safaricom Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard] Mobile phone operator Safaricom is indisputably the most profitable company in Eastern and Central Africa. No company comes close to the telco, which recently made an incursion into Ethiopia after Addis Ababa liberalised its telecommunications sector. Yet, Safaricom’s dominance does not end in the goods and services […]

Why retail investors have shunned NSE's alternative market segment

Why retail investors have shunned NSE’s alternative market segment

NSE CEO Geoffrey Odundo, Nairobi Business Ventures Chairman Haresh Soni, NSE Chairman Kiprono Kittony and ABC Group Managing Director Shamaz Savani at NBV’s Bell ringing ceremony. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard] When the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) launched the Growth and Enterprise Segment (GEMS) in 2013, there was optimism across the board that this would be the major […]