By Betty Maina

Kenya’s Business Community has expressed their appreciation and welcome the signing of the Special Status Agreement by His Excellency, Haile Mariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki of the Republic of Kenya. We wish to congratulate

By Betty Maina

 The motor vehicle assembling sector in Kenya which employs over 3,000 people is threatened with closure if the decision by the East African Community (EAC) Sectoral Council on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (SCTIFI)’s directive to collapse tariff lines for the unassembled motor vehicles under Chapter 87 of the EAC Common External Tariff goes unchanged.

By Polycarp Igathe

It was delightful to visit the port of Mombasa on Wednesday September 19, 2012 in the company of board members of  Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and the Kenya Shippers Council (KSC). 

September 28, 2012, NAIROBI: 

The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) today convened a meeting to gauge public sectors commitment to multi-lateral trade engagements.

By Betty Maina

On Thursday 20^th September, Parliament upon the proposal of Minister for Public Health and Sanitation passed the above legislation ostensibly to promote exclusive breastfeeding for children for the first 6 months and continuous

By Betty Maina, Chief Executive – Kenya Association of Manufacturers

A two-year-old boy gets sick and is rushed to a hospital in Kwale. The clinical officer at the hospital diagnoses feverish convulsions and quickly rushes to the hospital’s  pharmacy where he obtains a dose of medicine that will ease the boy’s suffering. However, nothing happens, and the convulsions continue. As a result of this, the boy is given additional doses of the same drug to which he does respond.

By Ms Betty Maina, Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Association of Manufacturers

The competitiveness of Kenya’s trade in the global market has been on the decline, a situation that is in stark contrast to the government’s ambition to attain its economic blueprint – the Vision 2030 launched earlier this year. This has been blamed on the high cost of production attributed to a number of factors both internal and external.

By Betty Maina (Ms. Maina is the Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Association of Manufacturers)

The decision by the Minister for Finance to exempt local gazetted manufacturers who use refined industrial sugar imported under the remission scheme from payment of Sugar development levy has been challenged in some quarters and has been the subject of misleading and alarming public statements by leaders and interest groups who surely must know better.

By Betty Maina, Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Association of Manufacturers

It is now the onus of the key players in the energy sector to demonstrate that the power increases were indeed caused by the rising worldwide fuel costs and not their thirst for profits. While it is well understood that the global crude oil prices were rising for a few months, it is indeed surprising that the companies did not march the drops in these prices with a reduction in the electricity costs - they remained as they were.

By Kenya Association of Manufacturer’s Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Betty Maina

The writing is on the wall – Kenya’s competitiveness is at stake. This was clearly demonstrated in the recently released World Bank Doing Business (DB) 2009. This  startling revelation calls for urgent action from Kenyan Government to ensure a conducive operating environment for the business community.