Author: Newsroom

This past few weeks, things at Coca Cola East Africa appear to be going very well. Not only is the soft drinks maker dumping its old office for a new one situated at the leafy suburb of  Lavington Nairobi, but today, it launched a portfolio of three brand new drinks which the MD, Mr. Artul Miranda has assured will excite your taste buds.

It was the morning of November 1st, 2010 that would seal Kenya’s most watched corporate transition. After close to ten years at the helm of Safaricom, Michael Joseph finally took a bow, leaving the corner office under the care of the new sheriff in town, Robert (Bob) William Collymore, a former Chief Officer for Corporate affairs at Vodafone South Africa.

My father banked with Barclays for all his lifetime, he had a Cheque book, savings account, fixed account, knew tellers by name and even kept some of his crucial documents in a safety deposit box.

Barclays Kenya posted a 12 percent jump in profits before taxes from Sh2.5 billion in the first three months of 2018 to Sh2.9 billion in the first quarter of this year attributed to a 3 percent growth in total income and a 3 percent drop in costs.

When the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Dr. Patrick Njoroge sat on the iron throne, his penchant for dropping quotes to illustrate complex economics became his signature in the many press briefings he held to explain Monetary Policy decisions. In the stonewalled CBK his predecessors were both inaccessible and mouthful with economics lingo that tended to only be understood by market analysts.

In April, Kenyans were caught by surprise when the government announced that it would impose a 1.5 percent housing levy on all salaried Kenyans, which would be used to finance the construction of 500,000 housing units under the Affordable Housing Scheme, a key pillar on President Uhuru’s Big four agenda.