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KITE 2024 gets coveted partnership endorsement from the Kenyan Government
The 25th Kenya International Trade Exhibition, to be held from 20 - 22 November 2024, has received the official endorsement of the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development, Government of Kenya. The endorsement was conveyed via a letter presented by Hon. Dr. F. O. Owino, Principal Secretary to Expogroup.
The exhibition has grown in stature from its inception 22 years ago, as the key networking and sourcing platform for the industries. As the largest event of its kind, it ensures direct access to over 150 exhibitors from 30 countries and more than 12,000 trade visitors.
Through the partnership with Expogroup for the 25th KITE 2024 the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development with the help of its premier agency Kenya Investment Authority aims to further its mandate to attract local and foreign investors, create business linkages, and expand the local and foreign market for goods and services.
Kenya is the largest and the most advanced economy in East and Central Africa; with strong growth prospects supported by an emerging, urban middle class and an increasing appetite for high-value goods and services.
Kenya is open for business to well-positioned companies with strategic objectives of tapping into the growing potential of emerging markets in East and Central Africa.The country is a dominant economy in the East Africa Community, contributing to more than 50% of the region’s GDP.Global Brands have already made it Kenya their regional HQ's due to the attractive opportunities and appealing location. Major global brands have already invested in Kenya as part of their strategies to access the wider regional markets and opportunities.
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Kenyan Trade Lobby To Promote Imports Of Chinese Machinery To Boost Industrial Sector
Posted on :Thursday , 24th June 2021
The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI), a business trade lobby, plans to promote imports of advanced Chinese machinery in order to boost the country's industrial sector, an official said on 2nd June 2021.
Kariuki Theuri, chairman of economic diplomacy committee with KNCCI, told journalists in Nairobi that Kenya heavily depends on foreign manufactured good. . .
Kenya, Burundi sign deals to boost economic ties
Posted on :Tuesday , 15th June 2021
Kenya and Burundi have inked bilateral trade and investment agreements in order to boost economic links between the two East African Community member countries.
Presidents Evariste Ndayishimiye and Uhuru Kenyatta signed agreements on agriculture, livestock and fisheries, public service, foreign affairs, commerce, sports, and culture during a bilateral meeting in Kisumu's Stat. . .
G7 DFIs & partners to invest over $80b in Africa’s private sector
Posted on :Tuesday , 15th June 2021
The G7 nations, in collaboration with multilateral partners, have pledged to invest $80 billion in Africa's private sector.
The G7 Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), including the UK's CDC Group, will assist sustained economic recovery and growth in Africa with this investment, which will be phased in over the next five years. The International Finance Corporation of th. . .
Bangladeshi firm to manufacture diabetes, malaria drugs in Kenya
Posted on :Monday , 31st May 2021
Square Pharmaceuticals, one of Bangladesh's major drugmakers, will begin producing pharmaceuticals at its multibillion-dollar manufacturing plant in Kenya within the next four months, aiming to meet unmet demand in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and South Sudan.
The pharmaceutical company began building of a facility in the tax-free export processing zones (EPZ) in. . .
In Kenya the world's first boat built of recycled plastic sets sail.
Posted on :Thursday , 27th May 2021
The 'Flipflopi vessel' is the world's first recycled plastic ship.
It will set sail on Lake Victoria in Kenya to launch a plastic pollution awareness campaign.
During the journey, the boat, which is made entirely of recycled plastic, will go through three East African countries with the help of the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) clean seas programme. . .
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