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Kenyan govt to begin mitumba phase-out plan

The Kenyan government to start implementing a plan from next month to reduce the impact of second-hand clothes on the…

8 years ago

Kenya to help textile investors cut cost set them near power plants

Kenya plans to set up investors at the shores of Lake Naivasha near geothermal plants to cut the cost of…

8 years ago

Kenyan govt set to spend Sh600m to revive Rivatex

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta speaking at the launch of Uasin Gishu county infrastructure machines in Eldoret, said that the government…

8 years ago

Kenyan govt targets to raise Sh100 bn in textile and apparels by 2017

Industrialisation Cabinet Secretary Aden Mohamed has hired Mr Rajeev Arora , the Former African Cotton and Textile Industry Federation director…

9 years ago

More than 300 Kenyan companies forced to stop selling goods to EAC

More than 300 Kenyan companies have been forced to stop selling their goods to the East African Community (EAC) market.…

9 years ago

Turkish clothing firm shows interest in Kenyan textile and apparel sector

LC Waikiki, Turkey based clothing firm that operates in over 20 countries across the globe, has expressed its interest to…

9 years ago

Kenya need to streamline activities with trade policy tools to aid textile and apparel sector

Kenyan textile industry was flourishing in the 1980s before the influx of ‘mitumba’ into the country. Companies such as Rivatex…

10 years ago

Kenyan govt takes up the task to boost its textile sector

The Kenyan textile industry has made a sizeable contribution to income generation in rural areas by providing a market for…

10 years ago

ACTIF to hold two day expo called Origin Africa to woo investors

African Cotton and Textile Industries Federation (ACTIF) has planned to make Kenya where cotton is mainly grown by small scale…

10 years ago

UNEP partners with Kenya’s Beatrice Kariuki to launch zero-waste initiative

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is spearheading an initiative towards a zero-waste world in partnership with Kenyan spoken word…

1 year ago