Kenya

Monforts Sees Strong Potential for Kenya’s Textile Industry Despite Investment Challenges

Kenya has significant opportunities to develop a more competitive and integrated textile manufacturing sector, but challenges ranging from energy and raw-material costs to infrastructure, skills and trade uncertainty continue...

East Africa’s Textile Waste Could Become a New Source of Industrial Growth

East Africa’s textile industry has considerable untapped potential to reduce manufacturing waste, improve resource efficiency and create new...

Kenya’s Cotton Revival Shifts Focus From Farming to Textile Manufacturing

Thika Cloth Mills says Kenya’s renewed cotton production could support a wider industrial value chain encompassing ginning, spinning,...

Kenya’s Apparel Industry Gains Trade Certainty as US Senate Backs AGOA Extension to 2028

Kenya’s textile and apparel industry is set to gain greater trade certainty following the US Senate’s approval of...

Egypt Establishes Permanent Export Hub in Kenya to Boost African Textile Trade

Egypt is strengthening its trade presence across Africa with the establishment of a permanent export hub in Nairobi,...

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Kenya approves setting up of textile factory in EPZ

The Kenyan Government recently approved setting up of a big textile factory by Mas Holdings Singapore, a Sri Lankan apparel and textile manufacturer, in...

Indian investors urged to partner with Kenyan counterparts

Indian high commissioner to Kenya Rahul Chhabra recently urged Indian investors to partner with Kenyan counterparts, especially in pharmaceutical and textile sectors that have...

Rivatex Signs Deal with Cotton Farmers in Kenya

Cotton farmers in Kenya’s Kerio Valley recently finalised a deal with Rift Valley Textiles (Rivatex) to sell their produce to the company. Rivatex will...

Kenyan Farmers to Grow Bt Cotton Commercially Starting

Kenyan farmers will start commercially growing transgenic Bt cotton from next April after waiting for nearly two decades. The development is likely to spur...

Kenya – A Rising Power In Apparel Industry?

Country Overview The Republic of Kenya is an East African country bordering the Indian Ocean, located between Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, and Tanzania. The country...

Kenya’s AGOA Exports Decline 4.65% in 2017

Kenya’s exports of goods to the US under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) declined by 4.65 per cent or Ksh1.6 billion ($15.9...

Dubai textile firm plans garment unit in Kenya’s Naivasha

Dubai-based textile company United Aryan plans to build a garment factory that could employ up to 10,000 workers at Olkaria geothermal fields in Naivasha...

Kenya to Create 70,000 Jobs in Leather Industry: Official

Kenya is looking forward to the leather sector to create 70,000 jobs by 2022 and boost the economy from Sh 14 billion now to...
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