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An African sneaker brand: Founder of Bathu explains how he built …
Oct 26, 2020 · Bathu is a South African footwear brand started by entrepreneur Theo Baloyi. Sven Hugo talks to Baloyi about how he grew the business from an idea to selling 15,000 pairs per month.. Bathu’s story begins at an airport in Dubai. Founder and CEO Theo Baloyi was cruising the duty-free shops, staving off boredom during an eight-hour layover en route to Saudi Arabia, where he worked on secondment ...
African Business Growth Stories, Ideas and Trends - How we made …
DOB Equity has backed well-known companies like M-Kopa, Twiga Foods, and Victory Farms. Former co-CEO Saskia van der Mast shares the investment lessons she has learned and her insights on the region’s business environment.
Mobius Motors: Affordable ‘Made in Kenya’ vehicle for Africa’s …
May 22, 2015 · Mobius Motors has also tapped highly-skilled professionals as its advisors, including Michael Joseph, the celebrated former CEO of Safaricom who is credited with growing the telco’s subscriber base from less than 20,000 to over 13.3 million within a decade and launching the mobile money service M-Pesa.
Electric battery manufacturing – could this be Africa's next big thing?
Dec 1, 2021 · The private sector, politicians and regional lenders have come behind Africa’s first regional electric battery manufacturing initiative, taking shape in the cobalt-rich DRC.. With business and political commitments already signed, alongside the creation of a Battery Council to pilot government policy, the project to develop a regional value …
How this Kenyan entrepreneur built an online book delivery business
Mar 8, 2022 · E-commerce has gone from strength to strength in Kenya over the last few years but Vincent Milewa, CEO of RafuBooks, uncovered a gap in the market for book deliveries. “I always wondered why I couldn’t buy books online and have same-day delivery to my home in Nairobi. The few times I did order online, it took about three to four days for delivery.
Ethiopian entrepreneur provides a snapshot of his peanut butter …
Oct 21, 2020 · Wow Peanut Butter is an organic peanut butter brand based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Founder Henok Abera answers our questions. 1. How did you come up with the idea for Wow Peanut Butter?
BuuPass: Digitalising East Africa’s transportation industry
Mar 24, 2023 · BuuPass founders Sonia Kabra, from India, and Wyclife Omondi, from Kenya, first met while attending college in the United States. Their shared interest in addressing the challenges of Africa’s public transportation led them to establish BuuPass, an online platform streamlining bookings for intercity bus, train and plane travel.
How Java became East Africa’s largest coffee chain
Sep 16, 2014 · A business graduate, Ashley did relief work in South Sudan for five years, then co-founded an aviation business in the war-torn country. “When we started Java we were really interested in trying to create something in Kenya that was more stable than flying airplanes in war zones,” he says.
Unpacking South Korea’s engagement with Africa
Sep 6, 2018 · More than ten years later, imports of African goods by South Korea had not substantially increased from the 2006 level. After a peak in imports during 2014, when South Korea’s intake of Nigerian and Algerian oil reached a historical high, total imports decreased and, in 2017, it summed to $7.1bn.