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Finlay shuts down Mara Mara factory

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:42:00 +0200

James Finlay (Kenya), a local tea extracts manufacturing firm, has announced the commencement of a phased shutting down of its Mara Mara Tea Extracts factory located in Kericho, Rift Valley. Finlay's sales volumes have been affected by the economic downturn and increasing competition from lower cost production centres.
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Kenya: Farmers “need help to reap rewards of El-Niño rains”

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:51:00 +0200

NAIROBI: Following below-average harvests in 2007 and 2008, Kenya's grain farmers need seed and fertiliser support to enable them to make use of El Niño rains, expected between October and December 2009, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says.
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Kenya: Massive crop failure in 'grain basket'

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:07:00 +0200

NJORO: Two months before harvest time, the maize in Kenya's Rift Valley should be tall, lush and green, bursting with life. Instead, crops in the province's Lare division are stunted, barren fields of parched browns and pallid yellows.
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Biggest windfarm in Africa slated for Kenya

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:39:00 +0200

A 300 megawatt windfarm, coined the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, is being developed in Kenya in the hope of decreasing the country's greenhouse gas emissions. A total of 365 wind turbines are slated for installation in northern Kenya.
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P&G relaunches Ariel in Kenya

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:26:00 +0200

NAIROBI: Procter & Gamble, through a local distributor, Hasbah Kenya, re-launched a new formula of Ariel washing powder in Kenya. The company staged a consumer, stakeholder and media launch at the open grounds of Uhuru Park, Nairobi earlier this week.
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Kenya: Slum-dwellers priced into hunger

Fri, 29 May 2009 10:27:00 +0200

NAIROBI: Millions of people who live in Kenya's sprawling slums are among those worst hit by the food price crisis, yet they receive far less humanitarian attention than other demographic groups, according to officials, who pointed in particular to the plight of malnourished children in such settlements.
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P&G launches Pampers Magic in Nairobi

Fri, 15 May 2009 10:28:00 +0200

NAIROBI: Pampers recently released a new product they claim is a much thinner but highly absorbent version of the brand, aiming to provide dryness for a longer period. Pampers Magic, coined to support its "magical" absorption of faecal releases by babies, is a Procter & Gamble (P&G) brand.
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Kenya: Alice Wanjiru, 'Now it's no meat, less ugali'

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0200

NAIROBI: With the UN World Food Programme already feeding up to 1.2 million hungry Kenyans, hundreds of thousands more - the urban poor and those in drought-affected areas - are grappling with shortages, high food prices and the impact of post-election violence in early 2008, which contributed to a reduction in food production in the country's agricultural areas.
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Spend merrily, pay the price in January

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:19:00 +0200

On December 24, last year, Joseph Wambua had Sh40,000, as his salary. He was paid early because of Christmas festivities.
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Retailer ventures into convenience stores market

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:20:00 +0200

Kenya's Nakumatt Holdings will soon unveil its plans to launch convenience stores (c-stores) as part of its expansion plans following a viability study showing a gap in the Kenyan market.
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