Competition Authority Of Kenya has rubbished off KRA orders prohibiting local distillers to sell alcoholic spirits in 250-millilitre containers below Sh150. According to KRA, the retailers selling spirits at or below Sh150 are tax cheats and illicit brewers who flood the market with deadly drinks. KRA stated that production expenses and duty cost don’t permit […]
Competition Authority of Kenya and Centum have instructed Coca-Cola Sabco East Africa (CCBA) to retain all 1739 permanent employees that the now merged firm Almasi Beverages limited had. While certifying the acquisition of ABL, CAK set conditions to not only protect 99 percent of the ABL workforce but also Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). “The […]
The world’s richest black man Aliko Dangote wanted to Buy the loss making Athi River Mining cement plan but, according to his foundation, ADF, people in Jubilee government demanded unmangeable bribes that saw him invest in Ethiopia. The very same embattled ARM has been bought by Devki’s National Cement Company a move that has seen […]
Airtel and Telkom Kenya planned merger plans are seriously dangling as EACC launches investigations into the merger details affecting the completion deadline agreed between the two companies. Airtel and Telkom, that are without doubt Kenya’s second and third-largest telecommunications firms respectively, had set tomorrow, September 27, as the final date by which they were to […]
Have you ever been hacked? If not, then invest in cybersecurity a lot because email hacking or what is dubbed as Business email compromise (BEC) attacks in the tech world have overtaken both ransomware and data breaches. According to Insuarence Giant AIG, BEC has been recorded as the leading main reason why companies filed a […]
Airtel Kenya has won over their main competitor telco giant Safaricom after they were given the first prefix numbers by Communications Authority of Kenya. Airtel customer will now have new mobile numbers bearing the new 01 prefixes. This comes months after CA rolled out new numbers and Airtel Kenya was offered three million of the […]
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