In what is definitely music to the ears for Kenyan artistes, Safaricom last week announced a 36% increase in the amount that they will earn for music sold throu...
The World Environmental Day 2017 (WED) was celebrated worldwide on the 5th of June with the theme being "Connecting people to Nature". Individuals and environme...
Franklin Korir from Kericho is the winner of a brand new BMW X1 valued at Kshs 4.3 million. The car was the grand prize in the just concluded 'Red Dot' promotio...
Konnect Africa is set to launch a public Wi-Fi hotspot service in Kenya. The service will be powered by satellite broadband and will also launch in Benin, Camer...
Simba Corp has acquired a 35% stake in Hemingways Holdings Limited. The transaction was driven by Simba's intention to grow its interests in the hospitality sec...
For the longest time, the stories that we have heard of the coffee sector in Kenya have been of corruption, theft and poverty. I can relate to these stories ver...
Wananchi Group Holdings owners of Zuku issued retrenchment letters to 50 of its employees on Friday. This followed the issuing of retrenchment notice to all its...
Delamere has announced the launch of a new range of fruit yogurt as part of its strategy to double sales and increase its current market share of 67%.
The ne...
Telkom has launched its 4G network as part of its rebrand. It becomes the second telco in Kenya to do so after Safaricom.
To access 4G, customers need to acq...
The rebrand of Telkom Kenya, formerly known as Orange Kenya, is now complete. The Kenyan telco reverted back to its original name after Orange Kenya exited the ...
Kenya Airways has signed a code share agreement with EgyptAir on the Nairobi-Cairo route in a bid to boost connectivity and access to Egypt and Northern Africa....
Kenya Airways (KQ) has today announced that the Government of Kenya is planning on turning the Ksh. 4.2 Billion loan to the airline into equity. This move will ...
Tune Hotel in Westlands will rebrand to Ibis Styles Westlands in the second half of 2017. This is after AccorHotels, which owns the Ibis Styles brand, signed a ...
Have you ever wondered how beer is made and packaged? Have you ever thought of how it goes from barley to that bottle of beer that you graciously open on a Frid...
With better internet connectivity and sluggish economic growth, many individuals across Africa have switched to streaming rather pay for Tv. This has seen compa...
There will be 1.4 billion more people in cities around the world in the next 8 years and each person will be producing an average of 1.42kg of municipal solid w...
It is often said that the one can only be sure of two things, death and taxes. Well, I would like to add one more that is a sure thing for any mortal. Falling s...
Phone manufacturer Tecno has donated Ksh. 2 million to a school feeding program in Kajiado County. The donation was done in partnership with ActionAid Kenya.
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After a turbulent couple of years in which the national airline Kenya Airways made record losses, things seem to be finally looking up. The airline posted an af...
Kenya Association of Manufucturers (KAM) yesterday launched a Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) programme in Mombasa. This is part of the organ...
For any economy to attract investments, it must be able to earn and maintain investor trust. Both local and foreign investors gain confidence to trade in a busi...
Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) yesterday launched the first ever Women in Manufacturing Programme in Kenya. The programme is a mentorship and networki...
1. Who is Fred Otieno?
I am the Head of Innovations at East Africa Breweries Ltd (EABL). I lead the team that is responsible for launching new brands and nurtu...
Vivo Energy Kenya and Multiple Hauliers yesterday conducted a School Road Safety campaign at a school in Western Kenya. The aim of this campaign is to teach chi...
Safaricom has today announced that Vodafone Group has proposed to transfer its interest in the telco to South Africa based Vodacom which is its African subsidi...
Safaricom has today launched a new payment proposition called Mpesa 1 Tap. M-pesa 1 Tap reduces the number of steps a customer requires to make Lipa Na M-pesa...
Safaricom has announced that it has laid its home fibre in the proximity of 53,000 homes. The telco shared the news at the FY 2017 financial results announcemen...
What does it mean to have a country whose citizens are happy?
According to the World Happiness Report 2017 released in March this year, ‘happiness is conside...
Safaricom has today announced their results for the year ended 31st March 2017 and as usual they have not disappointed having posted a net income of Ksh. 48.4 B...
Brookside Dairy has launched a new range of premium yoghurt called Fruitness.
Fruitness Yoghurt contains real fruit and does not have preservatives and arti...
Kenya Airways has today announced the appointment of Mr. Sebastian Mikosz as the CEO and Group Managing Director. Sebastian comes on board the national carrier ...
Leaving on a business trip can be stressful enough because of all the little odds and ends which need tying up at home before you leave. Then there is the added...
On Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending Mindspeak hosted by Aly-Khan Satchu for the first time ever. On this day, Jeremy Awori the Barclays Bank Kenya CEO ...
The M-Pesa Foundation Academy is now taking applications for its 2018 class. The institution is a state-of-the-art co-educational and residential 8-4-4 secondar...
Safaricom and USIU-Africa have been announced as winners of distinct categories at The African Excellence Awards 2017. The awards were created to honor the most...
Park Inn by Radisson, a colorful and dynamic midscale hotel brand, has opened its first hotel in Kenya, located in Westlands. The Rezidor Hotel Group now has th...
According to a new report released by Infomineo, Nairobi ranks as one of the leading destinations for Fortune 500 companies establishing international headquart...
Surf launched the Express Wi-Fi service in Kenya late last month, in partnership with Facebook and Internet Solutions. Express Wi-Fi is a public wi-fi hotspot s...
Mahindra has today launched the new Big Bolero Pickup in Kenya. The pickup now comes with power steering and can carry a load of upto 1.5 tons.
It will be av...
The Energy Management Awards began in 2004 as a collaboration between the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), the Global Environmental Facility and the Go...
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) released their full year 2016 results yesterday in which the bank realized an 87% increase in profits from Ksh. 3.5 Billion in 2...
National Bank of Kenya today became the latest bank to release its results as the banking industry tried to beat the March 31st deadline for releasing their ful...
