How pandemic recovery fuelled deal craze in 2021

How pandemic recovery fuelled deal craze in 2021

The year 2021 was characterised by new significant deals across the corporate sector after a lull induced by the Covid 19 pandemic. The merger and acquisitions activity cut across key sectors including financial services, real estate, telecommunication and agriculture. Some of the key ones included: Unga Group sells Ennsvalley Bakery to logistics company Unga Group […]

Unga Group, Kenya seeks shareholders nod for fish feed joint venture

Unga Group, Kenya seeks shareholders nod for fish feed joint venture

Unga Group Limited , Kenyan-based holding company is seeking shareholder approval to transfer part of the assets in two of its subsidiaries to joint ventures as it moves to seal the deal with Netherlands based feeds company Nutreco International . The company made the announcement and said that upon the transfer, its two subsidiaries Unga […]

Foreign Tycoons Who Tried to Buy Kenyan Companies but Failed

Foreign Tycoons Who Tried to Buy Kenyan Companies but Failed

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. File As business landscapes keep changing worldwide, investors and businessmen find themselves dipping their feet in waters they are not used to. In the early aughts, when telecommunication hit East Africa, the region innovated and developed mobile money transfer and became a leader in the category. […]

Athanas Matheka Started Honey Business with KSh 15k after Quitting Employment, He Now Runs an Empire

Athanas Matheka Started Honey Business with KSh 15k after Quitting Employment, He Now Runs an Empire

Athanas Matheka had always wanted to venture into entrepreneurship from a young age; he was inspired by the East African Breweries’ success story Matheka would later quit employment to pursue that dream; he and his wife started the Greenforest Foods in their tiny kitchen in Umoja Estate, Nairobi Production for Greenforest’s products has since moved […]

Nutreco appoints Burberry executive as new chief procurement officer

Nutreco appoints Burberry executive as new chief procurement officer

Dutch animal nutrition giant Nutreco, and parent of aquaculture feed company Skretting, has appointed Paul Bestford as the company’s new chief procurement officer (CPO). Bestford comes most recently from fashion company Burberry where he led the Global Procurement Function. Previous jobs include leadership positions at Novartis, British Airways, Ernst & Young, John Lewis Partnership and […]

Kenya: Unga CEO Nick Hutchinson Exits After 20 Years

Kenya: Unga CEO Nick Hutchinson Exits After 20 Years

Unga Group managing director Nicholas Hutchinson will depart in December after two decades in the human and animal feed miller. The Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed company announced on Monday that the long-serving MD will retire effective December 31. "Mr Hutchinson will continue in an advisory capacity for a period of time to ensure a smooth transition," […]

Unga CEO Nick Hutchinson exits after 20 years

Unga CEO Nick Hutchinson exits after 20 years

Unga Group #ticker:UNGA managing director Nicholas Hutchinson will depart in December after two decades in the human and animal feed miller. The Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed company announced on Monday that the long-serving MD will retire effective December 31. “Mr Hutchinson will continue in an advisory capacity for a period of time to ensure a smooth […]