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TayserMahiri:
You have Itele and we have Enda Iten Running shoes, The Best Running Shoe for the All-Around Pavement Pounder for the second year in a row.

Made locally in Kenya and used worldwide by athletes. Logo in last pic. Still a relatively new brand but doing excellently well.

https://ke.endasportswear.com/

https://www.kenyanvibe.com/kenyan-made-running-shoes-named-among-top/

The Kenyan Heritage

We drew inspiration from different elements of Kenya, including its rich history:

1. Colors: these have been selected to match the Kenyan flag.


2. Our Logo: it’s design is based on the image of a spear tip. The spear features throughout the history of Kenyan national identity, from the flag to being one of the highest honors that can be awarded to an individual in Kenya (Elder of the Burning Spear) — not unlike a knighthood or a presidential commendation.


3. Harambee Philosophy: Under the sole, you'll find the word "Harambee". It's the official motto of Kenya, and a value that drives us as a company. In Swahili it means “all pull together”, and is used to refer to moments where communities come together to accomplish something individuals couldn’t do alone – just as we are turning to you to ask for help in making Kenyan running shoes a reality.


4. The Number 12: Jamhuri Day (Republic Day), the most important national holiday marking both the date Kenya gained independence in 1963 and the day, exactly one year later, when Kenya became a republic, is on the twelfth of December - or 12/12. That's why we’ve got exactly 12 lines on the lateral side of the Enda Iten.


5. The Great Rift Valley: most of Kenya’s running champions come from the rift valley. To honor them, and the valley’s unique high-altitude and mild climate that makes for the best training grounds in the world, the heel of Enda Itens is designed to mimic the valley and its great escarpments.


6. Geometric Patterns and Repeating Triangle Motifs: these feature in many traditional Kenyan fabrics and beaded patterns. We've brought three variations of these patterns into the side mesh, the heel strap at the back and the outsole.

We hope you enjoy these little bits of Kenya and find the Iten’s a pair of shoes you’ll want to wear both out on a run and about town.

lol ltele is not the only one, they are across the country, I'm just touching on every area l can think of first, relax l haven't even scratched the surface. There are so many businesses, Even in West African countries as well.

Kenyans l just got started...


Drugfield Pharmaceuticals Limited, a wholly indigenous Nigerian company, was founded in 1991 and commenced production in 1993 as a drug manufacturing outfit after approval and due recognition of relevant agencies and bodies including the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN).

From an initial product dosage form of dermatological antibiotic and antifungal preparations, our facility now houses additional dosage form manufacturing areas for antibiotic dry syrups, capsules, tablets, ointments, creams, gels, powders, eye/ear drops, small and large volume liquid injectable preparations, nasal drops amongst others. In all modesty, we pride ourselves as the highest product portfolio carrier in the industry with over 140 registered product range.

The completion in March 2012 of our ultra modern current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) compliant manufacturing facility for the production of intravenous infusion products (large volume parenterals), creams and gels as well as sterile ophthalmics has enhanced our competence to respond to global operational demands and acceptance.

Our recognition by Regulatory Agencies and International Certification as evidenced by the NIS: ISO 9001:2008 award are clear indications of our progress as a company. With a strong, virile, committed, competent and dedicated professionals and staffs, our activities are felt all over Nigeria and in sub-regional markets.

Our successes notwithstanding, we are poised not to rest on our oars until we take drug manufacturing industry in Nigeria to an enviable height that is globally competitive.

Deebee Company Limited was incorporated in June 1977 with the initial purpose of commercially exploiting the research results of Dr D B A Ogutuga, Ph.D. (Cantab), the Founder and Executive Chairman, on the process for the manufacture of wine from kolanuts. These research findings were as a result of Dr Ogutuga's doctoral research work at the University of Cambridge, UK leading up to his Ph.D. degree in 1969. The results were also later patented in Lagos and London in 1978.

Production of wine started in an improvised factory in Ibadan, Oyo State, using mainly small-scale equipment and utilizing capital provided from the limited resources of the proprietor. The company was the first to produce wine in commercial quantities in Nigeria. Following the successful introduction of its products to the Nigerian market and the enthusiastic reception given to its products, the need to expand its production capacity was soon recognized.

Between 1979 and 1985, the company obtained funding for expansion and the construction of a purpose-built factory was completed at Isonyin, near Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. Operations at the new factory commenced in May 1985 and, with ready acceptance of the company's brands in the marketplace coupled with prudent management of funds, it was possible for the company to pay back its loans ahead of schedule. Between 1985 and 2004, the Deebee range of products continued to grow, utilizing the technical know-how of the Founder; it was thus that some of the brands (e.g. Popapine, Deebee Black Label ) became house-hold names in the Nigerian marketplace.

All Deebee products are NAFDAC registered.

ltele shoes made locally in lbadan

In 2005, Yemisi Iranloye founded her cassava production company, Psaltry International Limited, with personal savings from marketing farm produce. Six years later, in response to market demand for processed cassava products, she expanded the business with the establishment of a factory in Alayide village, Oyo State. Demand for these high-quality cassava products among Nigeria’s manufacturing industries continues to grow due to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and scarcity of imported grains such as wheat and barley, which make locally-sourced and readily-grown raw materials like cassava more cost-effective.

“Connection to the market has not been difficult because our product (food-grade starch) is a raw material used by the industrial sector and our quality is very high. It can be compared to quality anywhere in the world,” Iranloye explains. Large Nigerian companies such as breweries, pharmaceuticals and food processors use food-grade starch to manufacture their products, whilst confectionary and flour milling companies use HQCF as a cheaper alternative to wheat for incorporating into their sweet treats and flour. Since expanding, Psaltry International has become one of the largest starch producing companies in Nigeria with two production lines each producing 20–30 t of food-grade starch per day, amounting to 10,000 t per year.

Financial investment
Even with this scale of production, Iranloye is aware that demand for starch in Nigeria still outweighs her company’s current supply. However, investment from manufacturing companies is helping to address this shortfall. For example, after trialling the use of cassava starch in its brewing process in 2014, Nigerian Breweries Plc partnered with Psaltry International, and the International Fertiliser Development Centre (IFDC) under the Dutch-funded 2SCALE programme to improve the cassava value chain, and ensure a steady supply of high-quality cassava from within the country. Through the partnership, IFDC and the NGO trained Psaltry’s outgrower farmers to improve the quality and output of cassava, and as a result, Nigerian Breweries Plc is now the largest buyer of Psaltry International’s food-grade starch.

Nigeria’s national banks have also played a role in financing the company’s operations. Psaltry’s Alayide factory was built with funds from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme, distributed through FirstBank Nigeria. Two years later, the subsequent growth in the company’s profits enabled Iranloye to build a second factory.

Putting farmers first
According to Iranloye, Psaltry’s inclusive business model — based on sourcing raw material from smallholder farmers — is the key to the company’s overall success. In 2012, Psaltry began its first outgrowers’ programme by deliberately targeting smallholder suppliers and offering them higher prices to encourage subsistence farmers to expand and commercialise their cassava production. The programme’s success enabled Psaltry to expand its sourcing to other rural communities within a 50 km radius of the Alayide factory and increase the number of outgrower suppliers to about 2,000 farmers.

The Alayide factory was strategically positioned near to these smallholder suppliers to reduce post-harvest losses. Through her experience in the cassava sector, Iranloye had observed that when farmers transported their cassava over very long distances, the starch content could drop from 17% to 5% and tubers would often rot. The proximity of the Alayide factory to the farmers ensures that good quality, mature cassava tubers with high starch content are processed within 24 hours, avoiding unnecessary losses. The steady and reliable supply generated by these local farmers has allowed the company to maintain a relatively stable price throughout the year to undercut international pricing.

GPS monitoring
Busari Dauda, the Alayide village head, who has farmed cassava for 30 years, states that with the introduction of the outgrowers’ programme, “the first major improvement was the increase in my farm size from 2 to 20 ha in 2 years as a result of the services rendered by Psaltry. Currently, I have over 60 ha of farmland.” Psaltry has been able to support the growth of smallholders’ farms with help from a cloud-based app called Farmforce, which uses GPS technology to track outgrowers’ yields and monitor their needs in terms of extension services. The app can predict the yield and date of harvest for each individual farm, allowing Psaltry to oversee its supply. This data not only discourages farmers from side selling, but also helps them to obtain bank loans for planting material and inputs, such as herbicides and fertilisers, which Psaltry supplies at a subsidised rate.

To ensure the company receives its expected supply, farmers are required to sign a memorandum of understanding committing them to selling their produce to Psaltry alone and adhering to the company’s cassava quality standards before receiving the loan payment. However, to further increase outgrowers’ commitment, as well as their economic empowerment, Iranloye is keen to grow the shares that the outgrowers themselves have in Psaltry so that they collectively own 10% of the company.

Capacity strengthening
In addition to building the capacities of smallholder suppliers, Psaltry International concentrates on strengthening the capacity of its employees, which have more than doubled since 2013 to nearly 300–40% of whom are women. The company holds an annual staff training programme in partnership with Nigerian Breweries’ Training School at Ibadan, and technical training from Sino-Food Machinery has made it possible for Psaltry staff to carry out in-house factory maintenance to reduce technical breakdowns. At the management level, Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies Seed Coaches, provides strategic training for Psaltry staff. “In the last 17 years, I have received several trainings — training on entrepreneurship, on how to lead as a woman and in agriculture itself,” emphasises Iranloye.

Oluyinka Alawode

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rvp2018:
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rvp2018:
now scrapping the bottom of the barrel - my wife also manufacture biscuits at home.

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rvp2018:
now scrapping the bottom of the barrel - my wife also manufacture biscuits at home.

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rvp2018:
http://innosonmotors.com/an-open-letter-to-president-muhammadu-buhari-by-chief-dr-innocent-chukwuma-innoson/

Yet another young conman who must have learnt from "Innoson motors" CEO. "SOLO" the name is probably the only think he manufacturers

just wait for me, l haven't even started, you are already wailing, next is Zinox.

Nigeria’s first contract phone smiley

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rvp20182:
Car manufacturing - made easy for Nigerians & Ghanians- just order any of the cars including military vehicles from Chinas Big S &T - and declare yourself a car manufacturer
http://china-bigst.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008836441140/Homepage.htm

Kantaranka ( - You can buy them for 2,000 usd per unit.
http://china-bigst.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008836441140/pdtl/SUV-MPV/1136664127/SUVs-Car-Production-Line.htm
https://p.globalsources.com/IMAGES/PDT/B1136664127/SUVs-Car-Production-Line-Design-and-Assemble-Plant-Construction-Service.jpg

At least the Ghanians are assembling something, what are you Kenyans( l mean the real Kenyans) assembling?
By the way in Nigeria, we have entrepreneurs who make phones and laptops too. SOLO phone is one of them. l would begin to fill this place with Nigerian manufacturers bit by bit. They are just too many.
Nigerians are really tough when it comes to business and the informal sector, so many things of which in the past l never knew Nigerians venture into.

254tobby:
You've forgotten Chris kirubi? The prominent Kenyan business tycoon who owns the largest retail stores TWO RIVERS MALL in Sub Sahara Africa excluding one mall in south Africa,I usually wonder the kind of ignorance these Nigerians do have

Dude we are talking about industries, you are talking about malls? who gives a fvck about malls?

rvp20182:
You think Kenya is banana republic like west Africa? We have very good car manufacturing & assembling industry - that in Sub-Sahara is secondly only to South Africa. And we are not talking kamikaze - - Chinese re-badge cars. You with Nwoke are incorrigible idiots.

What is the name of the industry?

obaaderemi:
Ghana has Kantanka and Nigeria has Innoson. Show us what Kenya has. Mind you,don't show us Möbius.; D

lol exactly. When l have his time, l would post a list of Nigerian local brands too so him go know say Nigeria nor be him mate.

nwoke39:
Guys I think Nigeria won this round...

What we've learned:
1. Nigeria's manufacturing industry is more advanced than Kenya's

2. Kenya needs more indigenous manufacturers

nwoke we were not competing with Kenyans in the first place, they are too small, can't you see?
lf they were worth it, l would have shown the rvp2018 guy a list of so many Nigerian brand and manufacturers. l have the data, l was about posting at a time but l changed my mind. lt's not worth measuring dicks with a small economy like Kenya, it would be a major disgrace, so l only give them little facts on Nigerian manufacturing. I'm just here to have fun once in a while though.

obaaderemi:
They have accepted their cross.

Truly, they claim it's the 44th tribe. lt's really pathetic but we leave them to their cross, since they can't see the absurdity in it.

nwoke39:
Wat is this guy saying? First correct your english because i can barely understand what you're saying

There are several Nigerian oil companies... Nigerians too own oil blocks in Nigeria

lf it were to be in Kenya, the lndians would be the owners of the oil blocks even at this time and the Kenyans would compensate themselves claiming the lndians are their 44th tribe afterall. Oh Africa.
Truly the fault lies not in our stars but in us...Kwamue Nkrumah

nwoke39:
Wait o.. Is Safaricom fully Kenyan
like Globacom is fully Nigerian

Well probably the whites had the headstart on that one too.

TayserMahiri:
Dangote as always

We know how he became the owner of Nigeria thanks to endlessly corrupt govts and wheeler dealership.

MTN had the headstart but globacom is competing fiercely, many Nigerians hate the services of globacom, but Adenuga is always doing his best to keep up with mtn by sometimes bringing in new ideas never imagined at mtn. Sometimes even MTN had to follow suit. That's what I'm talking about.

TayserMahiri:
You are quite foolish. They had a massive headstart. I feel like I should teach you some commerce. Early entrants into any business always earn the highest benefits in terms of market share if only they manage to support their early mover advantage. Its that simple. Indians (and whites) were doing big business for years all the while Africans were in concentration camps. Dont forget we didnt have oil or gold, the sort of things that can create overnight billionaires to venture into highly capital intensive sectors like manufacturing.

I dont know if banning them was good or bad, you can consult your oil economists. The govt of the time felt it had a duty to protect locals until they gained a sound footing, something that has already happened.

That's why l have the example of larfrage in Nigeria, they once dominated too, they had the head start but today it's lbeto to the East and Dangote to a large part of the country. Larfrage is still there but the Nigerians are playing the game in a big way too.This is not about oil money, it's about having people who believe themselves and who want to make it big.

TayserMahiri:
You are just lucky people from more sophisticated parts of the world such as whites and Asians had little interest in your hot pan weather. Its not about sitting back and waiting for foreigners to dominate. Its about them having the means (financial, skills and otherwise) to outdo your baby steps. It seems like simple logic but your types pretend not to understand. Kenyans have actually outdone themselves as regards this matter, from the lows of having to ban indians from ventures just a few decades ago.

Trust me, if whites and Asians had fully settled in Nigeria the way they settled in Kenya you would be singing a different tune. If you knew Kikuyu you'd know they are not the type of people to sit back and wait for foreigners to dominate. Some things are just out of reach momentarily until you catch up with the ones with a headstart.

You don't have to ban them, smart Kenyans should compete with them and beat some of them to the game. FYI we have always had lndians and Lebanese and they are doing quiet well in Nigeria, many are even employers of labour.

TayserMahiri:
We arent talking of baby-steps manufacturing. We are talking of manufacturing on a large scale, the sort of which makes a country be said to have serious industries. At independence even Nigerians couldnt manufacture anything of note. You dont have to pretend you were so awesome when we know any industry you had back then was acquired from abroad.

l never claimed we were awesome at independence, infact we were about 90-95% illiterates at independence. Even if at that time the whites begin to dominate our businesses, Nigerians would not just sit idle for so long and allow only foreigners eat the good of the land claiming them as the 44th tribe or such nonsense gibberish, rather Nigerians would struggle to be at the top too by hook or crook, that's the difference.
For example MTN still dominates, but at least we are happy there is indigenous globacom too, at a time Lafrage dominated cement industry in Nigeria, now it's Dangote. We are looking for an alternative to Dstv as well. The top twenty richest men in Nigeria are black Nigerians despite the fact that lndians here are also doing well, etc.