Centum CEO James Mworia addresses investors during the company’s release of its FY 2020 half year results on November 28, 2019 PHOTO | COURTESY The number of listed corporate bonds and commercial paper on the Nairobi Security Exchange (NSE) has fallen to five with Centum Investment retiring its debt on Monday. The investment firm successfully […]
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Debt-free Centum plans buy-back of its ‘undervalued’ shares
Centum Investments CFO Samuel Kariuki during the full year ended March 2017. The firm’s net profit had dropped 16 per cent for that year, but fortunes have since changed. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Centum Investments can breathe easy after repaying the Ksh16.14 billion ($161.4 million) debt which had, in the past five years, affected […]
Centum retains Sh798m dividend as net profit rises 12pc
Centum Investment Company CEO James Mworia at a past results briefing. FILE PHOTO | NMG Centum Investment #ticker:CTUM shareholders are set for Sh798.5 million dividend payout, similar to what was paid the previous year, after the Group’s net profit rose by 12 percent to Sh4.63 billion for the full year ended March 2020. The growth […]
Top Players in Training Business Analytics Market 2027 – STEP Consulting • NIIT • Smart Brains • Centum Learning • Princeton Academy • Dale Carnegie
Global Training Business Analytics Market Research Report and Forecast to 2020-2027 Report provides extensive research on the fast-evolving Training Business Analytics Market. It also gives the competitive landscape of the leading companies with regional and Global analyses of the market till 2027. The new report on the global Training Business Analytics market provides key insights […]
NSE listed corporate bonds fall to 5 as Centum exits
Centum CEO James Mworia addresses investors during the company’s release of its FY 2020 half year results on November 28, 2019 PHOTO | COURTESY The number of listed corporate bonds and commercial paper on the Nairobi Security Exchange (NSE) has fallen to five with Centum Investment retiring its debt on Monday. The investment firm successfully […]
Pan-Africa forum advocates $100b fund for sustainable businesses
Head, Investment Banking, Middle East and Africa, Citigroup, Mr. Miguel Azevedo has advocated a $100b fund for businesses in Africa to get the economies going and create jobs. Speaking, yesterday, at a webinar hosted by Africa CEO Forum, Azevedo, who led the discussion, said with the impact of COVID-19 to bring businesses back in Africa […]
Book maker bets on digitising texts to grow market share
Longhorn Publishers managing director Maxwell Wahome during the release of the company’s full year result in Nairobi Yesterday/ ENOS TECHE Longhorn Publishers intends to go full force on e-learning as it eyes to expand into new territories within Southern Africa and Francophone territories in the next three years. The NSE listed firm has set aside […]
Kirubi, Mworia raise their stakes in Centum
Centum CEO James Mworia (left) and businessman Chris Kirubi confer during the company’s investor briefing at the Nairobi Serena Hotel on November 13, 2013. PHOTO | COURTESY Chris Kirubi has raised his stake by two million shares, equivalent to 0.3 per cent of the firm’s issued shares at the NSE. The purchase takes his direct […]
Centum CEO takes pay cut to earn Sh177.5m
Centum Investment chief executive James Mworia was corporate Kenya’s fourth best-paid manager last year with an annual compensation of Sh177.5 million or an equivalent Sh14.7 million per month. The Centum annual report released Monday shows Mr Mworia took a Sh41.7 million pay cut after getting a lower bonus cheque. The pay places Mr Mworia behind […]
Kenyan continues to build frontier market reputation
Seven Kenyan firms have been listed among 100 companies in frontier markets that investors should watch keenly this year. The guide by Citi Research, a division of Citigroup Global Markets Inc, lists KCB Bank, Equity Group, British American Tobacco (BAT) Kenya, Bamburi Cement, Centum, East African Breweries Limited (EABL), and Safaricom among the 100 firms’ […]