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Some products made in kenya - MIka makes household electronics

They pretty much make everything you need in your kitchen and house

Definitely the biggest manufacturing company to ever emerge from Kenya and spread worldwide is Chandaria's Comcraft. The conglomerate started in Momabasa kenya has manufacturing plants in almost all 50 Africa countries, several in Asia, Europe and American continent.

And it still run by ever humble Manu Chandaria from his office in Nairobi.

They basically run Nigeria manufacturing.

Chandaria Group of six companies engaged in Steels, Metals, FMCG & Engineering products in Nigeria. Companies in the Group - 1) Midland Galvanising Products Ltd., in manufacturing Steel Roofing Sheets, 2) Midland Rolling Mills Ltd., in Steel Rolling Milling, 3) Hoesch Pipes Mills Nigeria Ltd., in manufacturing Steel Pipes, Z-purlins, Wire Mesh etc., 4) Tower Galvanising Products Ltd., producing Steel & PVC Pipes, 5) Industrial Mineral Products Ltd. in manufacturing of PVC Pipes, Cement & PVC Ceilings, 6) Architectural Products Ltd. engaged in manufacturing Foam Blocks, Mattress & Engineering Products. Combined Group turnover estimated Naira 35 bn. with employee strength of more than 500.

Name any type of manufacturing - kenya companies are one doing it in the region.

Almost all the electrical cables bar cheap chinese ones in east and south africa are made by East Africa Cables.

East African Cables is a premier cable manufacturer, with a footprint that spreads across East and Central Africa. The company has four manufacturing facilities; two in Nairobi, Kenya, one in Dar es Salaam Tanzania and one in Eastern DRC. In addition, EAC is present in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Southern Sudan and Ethiopia, through a distribution network.

Outside South Africa's breweries - SAB - Kenya's East Africa Breweries is the second biggest.

Its brewing companies boast some of the most popular beer brands in their respective markets which include Guinness, Tusker Lager, Serengeti Premium Lager and Bell Lager. These brands cover six East African countries which consist of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.Jun 3, 2020

Bidco Africa, previously Bidco Oil Refineries Limited (BORL), is a multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Thika, Kenya with subsidiaries and distributorships across 17 countries in East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa.[1] Its products include edible oils, fats, margarine, laundry bars and detergents, personal care products, animal feeds and most recently, Food and Beverages.[2] Bidco Africa owns over 40 brands and is the largest producer and marketer of consumer goods in the region.[3]

Very good reply I found in Skyscrapper city explaining why Kenya is regional manufacturing giant - to really get extend of kenya manufacturing you might have to add up almost many Africa countries manufacturing because they are mostly done by kenya companies subsdiaries including entire west africa roofing by the comcraft congolemerate.


Kenya is a leading producer of consumer goods in the region, regularly being the largest (or 2nd after Egypt) exporter of such goods to COMESA countries. A large proportion of exports to Eastern and Southern Africa are products like fats, vegetable oils, dairy products, flour, soaps, detergents, perfumes, insectcides, margarines, toileteries, cosmetics, toothpastes etc. These products are largely produced by domestic concerns. BIDCO has factories and warehouses in 16 African countries, Kapa in 12 countries, Pwani in 11, Menengai in 9. Unilever (MNC) produces goods localky for markets in Ke, Tz, Rw, Ug, Burundi, Zambia and Malawi in Kenya, with production of many of its leading products (eg blue band) usually outsourced to local firms like orbit and excel.

The Kenyan textile industry is rapidly growing. Last year, about $350m worth of textiles were exported to the US under AGOA. There were also a significant portion of toiletries, cosmetics, perfumes, toys and sports requisites sold under AGOA to the US, totalling to $550m.

An emphasis also needs to be placed on tea. It is Kenya's largest export, but it isn't shipped out fresh coz it would all rot en-route. It's semi-processed by factories owned by farmers' SACCOs in the production regions. I think the world's largest tea factory is one such plant.

There are manufacturing products, many times exported to largely Eastern and Southern Africa that deserve separate categories. These are
cement - largely from locally owned plants. Stuff like tiles, ceramic toilets, melamine cups and plates, etc that are sold throughout the EAC are usually either Kenya, Chinese, Indian or lately Tanzanian (tiles).
iron and steel - recycled from scrap, but an iron ore smelting and steel rolling mill is u/c in Kenya's coal rich south. Kenya is the leading supplier of iron roofing, rebar steel, stainless steel and many other steel articles to all EAC countries except DRC.
Glass - All forms of glass sold in Kenya, and a significant portion exported to the East, Central and South Africa are locally produces. From wind screens, to safety glass, to tower glass cladding, to glass cups and plates, to glass bottles used by Coca-Cola all over the region, etc.
automobiles and their parts - something like 90% of all light commercial vehicles in Kenya are locally assembled (matatus, Almost all isuzu, Mitsubishi, and hino truck brands), the bodies of most heavy commercial trailers in the EAC are fabricated in Kenya by local firms. Replacement parts like air filters, carburettors, etc are locally produced and exported as far south as Zambia. Kenya has even started exporting chloride exide car batteries to Ghana under the AFCTA.
Electronic products - almost all electronic cables, a leading refrigerator brand (mika), a leading brand of light bulbs, stuff like iron boxes, etc are locally produced or assembled. An interesting note, Kenya's Transcentury dominates the electronic cables markets in Kenya (East African cables), Tanzania (East African cables Tz), DRC (Cableries du Congo), Uganda (Tanalec and EACl ke) Zambia (Tanalec) and is a big player in South Africa (Kewberg cables and braids in Jo'burg) which also serves Nam & Zim And it still owns one of the largest logistics firms in the region (civicon), is the largest shareholder in a mid-tier bank (development bank of Kenya), and owns one of Africa's largest manufacturer of weigh scales (Avery)
pharmaceutical products - mostly generic products sold throughout the EAC, malawi and Zambia. Kenyan brands are the 3rd most common in the region after Indian and Chinese imports, with local brands such as Mara moja, kaluma, quinin, AL being household names in some areas.
Plastics - the likes of Nairobi bottlers produce all Coca-Cola plastic bottles used in East, central and parts of Southern Africa. The likes of Kenpoly, Adix, Teepee, Kpipes, etc, dominate the market for plastic chairs, brooms, cups, plates, stools, drainage pipes, water pipes, etc all over the EAC.
There's also a budding machine goods production scene in Kenya. All hammer (posho) mills, roller mills, a significant portion of fully automatic milling plants of up to 15 t/day capacity, oil presses of put to 10t/days capacity, oil refineries of up to 500kg/hr capacity, rice mills of up to 15t/day, animal feed mills and mixers, water pumps, irrigation systems, stone crushers, borehole drilling machines etc used in Kenya and in some instances exported to the EAC are locally manufactured In places like Kariobangi, Baba Dogo, Lusaka rd etc. Their motors are imported from China though.
Then there's the jua kali sector that fabricates metals. All wheelbarrows, hoes (both hand held and tractor towed), metal suitcases used by high school students, grills for roasting nyama choma & mshikaki, egg and sausage trolleys, popcorn roasting machines, chips friers, etc sold in Kenya, as well as a substantial portion sold throughout the EAC are a product of the jua kali sector. I just wish the government could finance their expansion through incubation programs.
If asked, I'd say Kenya needs to solve the issues of high corruption, high electricity costs, high port charges, unproductive road blocks and more importantly, achieve a broader access to cheaper finances. Increasing the rolling stock on rail lines would also remove the clog on roads as well as lower freight costs. So many small businesses going on in manufacturing and every other sector that could benefit from these.

You really cant round off humans to nearest decimal point. Those white boys are very rare in kenya rugby. I think that is some random day..not representative of kenya rugby. Maybe the juniors - just off high school - you can get few such.

jl115:
The point is your white population is 0.1% yet your squad is 20% White..... Understand?

We keep telling them in Africa sports - South Africa, Egypt and Kenya - are in other league. Kenya is almost always up there in almost everything because we are functioning country. Not a zoo.

gallivant:
Nov 26

Kenya hosted the Triathlon Africa Cup. So much for geography!!

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For long time white man theory was African (Ghanian) could only do sprints because it was easy - like Ghanian sitting under a coconut tree waiting for coconut to fall. You just sprint 100m or 400m max. And you're out. If they ask you to run 800m or more youre too lazy or even afraid you might die in the process.

All you do in 100m is to give it your all - power through - no time for strategy.

From 800M it start becoming difficult because you have to strategize...heck 800M is most difficult because it btw sprinting and strategizing...it becomes very technical and you need discipline.

The rest takes lot more discipline, pacing yourself, watching the clock, training harder and name it.

vaxx:
To the idiot who keeps measuring west africa standard. Jamaica are the best in sprinter and majority of jamaican are from west africa ( Ghana precisely.


If west africa currently are not dominating it now , it doesn't mean we don't have the capacity, we just don't consider entertaining enough to spend our resources and time like world most popular sport ( football) .

Of course you're out because your theory that long distance running is easy is completely wrong. Short distance running is easy. Football is easy

obaaderemi:
End of Discussion!
Thank you for posting this, R I P. I'm out of this silly argument since you already capitulated. Everything else is grasping at straws by you.

What is geographically unique in kenya and Ethiopia? That other countries dont have including in the region?

obaaderemi:
Naturally your people are lazy and unintelligent. Why do you think you don't do well in other sports?

R I P, it's all geography. That's why long distance running is no longer competitive. There's nothing to it. Just putting one leg after another. See what science found out here.



Geography, geography and geography. Nothing inventive. Shame.

https://www.iol.co.za/sport/kipchoge-keino-is-africas-best-332265

The father of African and Ethiopian distance-running was the legendary Abebe Bikila.

Running barefoot over the cobblestones of Rome in 1960, Bikila won the marathon. Four years later and barely three weeks after an emergency appendectomy operation, he retained his title and won by over four minutes.

The greatest African athlete, many believe, comes from Ethiopia's neighbour, Kenya.

It was not records nor titles that made Kenya's Kipchoge Keino the outstanding African athlete of this century, but the manner of his victories and of one race in particular that raised him above all others from the world's leading continent in distance running

obaaderemi:
Bikila, the man who opened the way. 1960 and 1964. Not some lazy unintelligent little Indians who had it in them due to geography but never knew they could do it.

You're inventing your own theories.
During Eugenics and Apartheid - including in Civil right movements.
Part of reason why Negro (west african to be precise because east african were uknown) were thought incapable
Was their total lack of running ability beyond 400m
Heck even in South Africa - it was the Boer who use to run - and African just couldnt.

It was well know for years that black man could not run long distance because he was lazy, cowardly and had no discipline.

Kenyan changed that perception.

And we did it by training with incredible discipline and commitment - by being very brave and couragous.

Running short distance is easy beezy. Try to train and run marathon at time kenyans run. It takes MONK like months of discipline.

The idea that middle- and long-distance running is easy is quite frankly borne out of kenya incredible success that has made it look easy

Running a marathon and dominating it like Eliud Kipchoge does is SUPERHUMAN. It's the ultimate test of the human physical and mental strength. Nobody trains like athletes. Nobody sacrifices like they do. Nobody is as brave as they are.

Obaboon by 200m you're about fainting - by 800m you're dead Kipchoge has just about not even started - he still need to go 42kms on hard tarmac at incredibly fast pace - less than a minute for 400m.

obaaderemi:
Ode, you will learn by force.

Bikila shocked them in 1960 then bested his own record in 1964, it was then your stupiid lazy forefathers realized they could win something at the Olympics
If west Africans were lazy it might interest you that as far back as 1936 Olympics blacks who were mainly of West African background had been beating the whites. So where you get your narrative of lazy blacks from is unclear. Don't just say Nonsense because you are losing an argument, R I P.

Long distance running is nothing. It's merely based on geography. That's why dirt poor countries like Kenya and Ethiopia can do well at it.

Bottomline: you have no sports in little India save the one geography gave you.

But to the wider public at the time, runners from east Africa were not considered serious contenders for middle-distance and distance medals. Although the Ethiopian Abebe Bikila had won the marathon in 1960 (famously running barefoot) and 1964, Kenya had only ever won one bronze medal, in the 800m in Tokyo, in 1964. Black runners may have been winning the sprints for years, but there was a belief at the time that distance running was more cerebral and so better suited to the supposedly more ‘sophisticated’ white runners from Europe and America.

https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/motivation/a34396756/kip-keino-1968/

This is the day Kipchoge turned middle- and long-distance running upside down. He was running against a great American legend Jim Ryun - and he was sick - but he shattered the field - the white man is still stumped.

World Record holder Ryun had won 47 straight 1500m./miles going into this race and in their previous meetings completely dominated Keino..The Kenyan,fearing Ryun's awesome last lap kick set off on a suicidal third lap of 58.1 seconds to try and nullify the threat and it worked a treat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_9AAy7yZTc

First athletics is huge competitive sports with many events; it just that kenyans are so good.
Ethiopia marathon runner Abebe Bikila was 1st African to win marathon but Ethiopeans didnt dominate - he was just a freak talent then.
Europeans continued to dominate althetics until 1968 olympics when legendary Kipchoge Keino arrived in the scene - shattering the field despite being sick.

"Kip Keino’s breathtaking 1500m gold at the 1968 Mexico Olympics sparked the rise of Kenyan running, challenged perceptions about race and inspired a generation around the world"

Thus, began Kenyan dominance.

Initially the white man had concluded that black or African had no discipline or mental toughness to run anything beyond 100m dash. That he is because they were used to west african lazy cowardly negro - who had no discipline, no mental toughness and no courage.

Like Kipchoge Keino - it would also take another Kenyan Obama to become US president - by just being incredibly smart and eloquent.

obaaderemi:
The long distance races are not competitive even way back, just a few countries dominated it until an Ethiopian (not a Kenyan ) shocked them.
So you have a silver medal in javelin. You are still behind Nigeria in terms of diversity of those medals. We have medals in athletics, long jump (gold), football (gold), taekwondo, canoeing, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting... Yours is not nearly as diverse. Like someone said you are a marathon country. No more no less.

Heck even in 100m and possiblye 200m - now Kenyans are winning all that - because we have strong sporting infrastructure that nurture talents - of various discipline

African record100 m in 9.77 s is held by Kenyan - Ferdinand Omanyala

Before kenyan won althetics - White use to dominate althetics - and thought blacks (I guess they had only see west african slaves) were incapable of running long distance - as they said it require more mental toughness that west african negro didnt have. For many 100m is just a quick dash...42km of marathon is ultimate test of human physical and mental strength.

It used to be a sport for nordic and germanic tribes of the whiteman.

As for general sports - kenya has won - all that.

Kenya won men 400m hurdles gold. Kenya has won Javelin. Kenya has won olympic boxing gold. Cricket we have reached semi finals in world cup.

Name any sports - you are NOWHERE compared to kenya.Only South Africa can speak.

obaaderemi:
Our sporting industry is far bigger than yours, from football to basketball to athletics.
And our manufacturing too is bigger than yours. You posted a chart to that effect yourself.

That woman that won a gold earlier this year brought joy to many Africans not only nigerians., because she set two world records the same night in a very competitive sports. We are not talking about the kind of sports where you compete mainly with African neighbours. Like the type of sports involving little Indians and skinny Ethiopians.

Show me a Kenyan that ever achieved that.
We've won Olympic medals in various sports more than Kenya. Yours were won in only long distance running and boxing. Which one again?

We've won in sprints, canoeing, football, long jump, boxing, weightlifting, wrestling. Sports is more diverse in Nigeria than in your shithole country. And it's also more lucrative here.

They are still discussing boxing posthumously - I guess their talents dried up at some point

gallivant:
Lmao!

Boxing is not DICK whover. It sports that need to sprout from schools, to amateur to proffesional. The evidence we have suggest Kenya is 2nd to South Africa in SSA - throw in Egypt and Algeria.

Nigeria you cannot even organize a cock fight btw you and fellow zoo Ghana.

obaaderemi:
So you needed to exploit the amateurish side of boxing before you could feel comfortable. When you discussed soccer, long distance, etc here we were talking about the professional level. Why are you falling back to amateur boxing nobody knows? Nigeria has produced more champions in professional boxing than you would ever produce.

Individual end up in hall of fame- not countries. if we were talking individuals - a random ghanian will probably make it

Just40:
Boxing is a professional sport ... Pls stop dragging it into amateurism

You have to dominate on the global stage to end up at the Hall of Fame.

So far, theres no international boxing champion from Kenya

I thought ivory coast was better than other west african backwater - but this look like drc congo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ89onsiWTM

Ruto launches Hustler Fund - this SME loan of 500M dollars initially to be added annual - with lowest interest - 8% per annum or 0.002% daily. The loan will be disbursed through the phone. Already kenya mobile micro-loans are approaching 10 billion dollars.

Banks including Equity Bank - will add 2.5B dollars to Hustlers fund.


We have approx. 8 million Kenyans that can’t access credit because of their bad credit history. For every Kenyan locked out of the credit system, the government of Kenya is giving you a second chance. Those who will get a second chance, please do not abuse it.
Today we are replacing the collateral system that has been built around title deeds, logbooks, etc, we are building a collateral system based on credit scoring. They can access credit based on their credit scoring.

“Hustler fund will be 500 times cheaper than the average lender in the market.”

Well that is your opinion. Kenya rugby 7s is world class level. Our 15s need more work.

The Kenya national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Commonwealth Games. They are currently one of the 15 "core teams" of the World Series, with a guaranteed place in all 10 events each season.

jl115:
bru... You are not on our level.... Not in 7s or 15s....not even remotely close

Most footballers are mentally retarded. In fact majority cannot even read or write. Football is considered a sports for poor low IQ people. Rugby is middle class sports for mostly bright kids.

obaaderemi:
Football of all sports( if you count chess out) requires critical thinking the most. East Africans are not particularly bright as you can see from their representatives here. They will never play football well. I heard Ghana once beat Kenya 13 - 2 or so.

When Ghana is booted out the next game this irrational exuberance will be over.

vaxx:
there is nothing equalizing between fifa world cup and olympic. Olympic comprises many sport event while world cup is just about football , so where comes the equality, mr idiot. You actually love blind argument.

World cup is a single football event , the one month event is characterised with competition and excitement. I am not even going to talk about the economic impact .


Qatar just did what france , brasil and germany had once did before and when the aforementioned country did it , no alarm was raised . So we now know it is bribed scandal because it is coming from less known politically powerful country.

Slumdog, why didnt you not speak about it? Are you cherrypicking where South Africa is ahead and leaving the biggest competition outside world cup for 15s?

World cup for 15 and world cup for 7s is ultimate championsip - not the league or series.

AfriqueDuZuid:
Lol again you trying too hard to act smart. No one ever spoke about 7s world cup

We been speaking about world rugby 7s series

This crazy.
There is perhaps no training in world as hectic as althetics.
I am not awareof training booth where people go for 4 months without seeing their families or wifes.
Althetics training for marathon is toughest thing you can imagine.
Those guys run around Ghana every week - repeat that for four months - they can circle the earth.

Heck I dont think there is training schedule as punishing as althetic....i have seen it up close.

You wake up 4am - run until mid morning - sleep from total exhausation - wake up in afternoon - 4pm - run till 7am.

Then sleep - rinse and repeat for months.

It takes incredible discipline and mental strength.

vaxx:
stop the madness , you dense kid, Althletic training camp are only for a limited time . No one goes to Althletic academy because it is stupid to do so. Running required the least skills ever , even a dense idiot like you can pull a leg over another to move forward

That is what I thought. They do well in series because it you need lots of resources. In the world cup - we are fairing as good as they are.

Shma2022:
South africa has never won any world cup 7s.
Our team under coach ayimba was the best -- we used to beat New Zealand and fiji everytime. He died, Our senior players went on strike and that was over for our rugby. Nowadays we struggle, but the young players are slowly gaining momentum. We will come back stronger than we left. We will teach those white Boers how rugby is played.

We have same record when it comes to Rugby World Cup 7s.
You beat us in World Seven series - which is a league - and kenya struggle because it has to finance it's operation from smaller budget.

AfriqueDuZuid:
South Africa has won the world series +-4 times before Kenya is just another uganda


Kenya has never.... Kenya best finish was 3rd during covid while countries like nz, Australia, figi, France, England, etc were not competing

If you can't win while they not competing you can forget about winning a world series

After all you you can't differentiate a series win and a leg win, you hopeless

Which year did South Africa win the Rugby World Cup Sevens (RWCS). Never. Dont confuse with HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series

AfriqueDuZuid:
Lol always trying to act smart you not at all, I don't even watch soccer

Try arguing with a Ugandan or Somali on rugby maybe you might come out tops

Obaboon this how Saudi Arabia beat Argentina. They worked on their players mental blockade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKkouQ_ndws