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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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Zain Kenya have done it, Essar have done it, and now Telkom Orange are doing it, too: exchanging their CEO.
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
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For their first AGM as a listed company, Safaricom will offer none of the fringe benefits that are typically expected: transport, lunch, goodie bag. It is not good shareholder value, says Chief Investor Relations Officer Les Baillie. Andrea Bohnstedt looks at the logistical and other challenges of Safaricom’s retail investor relations management.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
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Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) had set up a subsidiary in Tanzania a good decade ago, but only managed to turn a profit in 2008. Other Kenyan banks are now gradually entering the neighbouring market, but Tanzania remains a challenging business environment with potential in very specific niches. By Rachel Keeler.
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Friday, 19 June 2009 |
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Safaricom’s shareprice has been nudging up over the past days. Les Baillie, Safaricom’s Chief Investor Relations Officer, is confident that the recent road show has helped to trigger this. Andrea Bohnstedt speaks to Baillie about this marketing effort and why the clue to the price development may have been with the company’s large number of small shareholders.
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
A short overview over the key elements of the 2009/2010 budget by Ernst & Young.
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Monday, 15 June 2009 |
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SME financiers Grofin argue that debt is more suited as a financing mechanism for small and medium enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa as it meets entrepreneurs’ demands and allows an easier exit. Rachel Keeler takes a closer look at their business model.
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Friday, 12 June 2009 |
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The government’s bandwidth subsidy, financed by the World Bank, was made on the assumption that costly connectivity was the key obstacle to developing a local BPO industry – but attracted the wrong players.
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 |
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Zain are selling their Africa operations. And I’m taking this oddly personally. By Andrea Bohnstedt.
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
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At the top of the chart for best global get-rich-quick schemes, somewhere behind the Donald Trump and Chinese models and just before South Korea’s 20-year authoritarian industrialisation plan, sits the Indian outsourcing bonanza. In less than two decades, India has grown from rice farmer to undisputed king of the offshore outsourcing industry, estimated to be worth USD110bn globally by 2010. And just as Kenya and Uganda are so fond of invoking the Asian Tiger model in their own industrial visions, so the two countries have also adopted the outsourcing dream as their own: if India can do it, why not East Africa? By Rachel Keeler.
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