What Keeps Brookside Afloat? Yet Kamwana is a "sosho" manager

Judging by Kamwana’s below par management of Kenya, I wonder how Brookside has expanded so exponentially to become a relatively stable blue chip company. What has prevented Jamesoni from transferring the Brookside management skills to Ikulu? If Kenya was run like Brookside, we would seriously be knocking on Singapore’s perch

This is the reason miguna is always angry. You hire a drunkard to manage Kenya yet his company is managed by western sourced qualified professionals.

brookside sold a 40$ stake to a french company. They have a similar arrangement to vodafone-safcom thing. Uhuru just rakes in the profits and lets them manage the company although without any physical presence on the ground to keep things quite

[SIZE=6]French group Danone buys 40pc stake in Brookside[/SIZE]
FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 8:39https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/image/view/-/2388594/medRes/666144/-/maxw/960/-/31dewvz/-/milk.jpgBrookside products stacked in a Kenyan supermarket. The firm controls 44 per cent of the processed milk market in Kenya, ahead of New KCC which commands 20.8 per cent. Photo/FILE
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French food group Danone said Friday it was buying a 40 per cent stake in Brookside, East Africa’s top dairy producer, as part of plans to expand in new markets.
The Paris-listed company is seeking new opportunities amid weak growth in Europe and a slowing economy in China.
Dubai equity firm Abraaj Group, which is a long-time investor in Brookside, keeps its 10 per cent stake in Brookside, while the Kenyatta family, which before the deal owned a 90 per cent stake, will retain the rest of the capital.
Abraaj’s Africa Fund invested $18.7 million (Sh1.6 billion) in Brookside in 2009.
The deal,[SIZE=6] whose financial terms were not disclosed, [/SIZE]was sealed with the Kenyatta family which controls the group, and will boost Danone’s earnings, Emmanuel Marchant, vice-president for corporate development, told Reuters by phone. A Brookside spokesperson who spoke to BDAfrica.com confirmed the deal and said a press statement would be released soon. The Kenyattas are the descendants of Kenya’s first president. Brookside Executive Chairman Muhoho Kenyatta is the younger brother of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Ile story hutembea ni ati before Arap Nyayo aokote Uhuru, Ngina did not allow Uhuru anywhere near serious family business.
Uhuru zake zilikua kama zile za fidel castro odinga, pombe na bangi 24/7

Muhoho/Ngina have been running things

Maybe we can have Muhoho step in to supervise a possible extension of SGR to Malaba/Kisumu. That abrupt termination in Naivasha is costly

Brookside products are crap though, especially mala yao. In all supermarkets utaona kcc mala imeisha but brookside zimejazana hapo zikilengwa.

kenyattas wealth 90 percent imetoka from doing business with govt. politicians plus their families dont know how to do engage in business. that is why they always want to be in govt at all times regardless of the magnitude of the business they have which leads to public sector companies making losses while their private business flourish

Too much artificial ingredients in their yoghurt.
Toake it worse, they pay their debtors after 120 days and most employees are poorly paid.

Uhuru is there to make money for Himself and his family.

True story

Why can’t they let those French guys run a few govt agencies…

why does everybody have a fcking myopic view? Kenyan has been fcked for 57 years and we only see Uhuru’s role ? How we forget Moi’s era, detentions , political murders, tribal clashes, economy sabotage . How about people study history before generalizing . Uhuru sucks since he has no common view/interest with the mwananchi…he probably has never stopped to buy a gallon of milk or bread and thinks everyone eats caviar for lunch .

because we had something fairly good before he came in.

Muhoho the brother is the one who runs the show…with the blessings of the Queen Mother…
Uhuru cannot be allowed near the enterprises…
kazi yake ni political front …

But Uhuru’s presidency has had 3 problems…
1.Family interests drive his key decisions before the nation (corruption by policy)
2.Friends and dynasty ties have held him down, most of the people he appoints are just incompetent buddies and family friends, so they have really messed up when combined with issue Number 1.
3. Ruto and his cabal of merciless thugs who were in charge of some key dockets.

Si Moi alisema anafuata nyayo za Jomo jameni. The current quasi police state we live in was conceived right after independence to protect the political elite as are most of the problems we face as a nation today. Yes Moi improved the system and was more brutal than Jomo but isn’t that what is expected of a good student?? The fruit never falls far from the tree. Uhuru’s is his father’s son and he has been instrumental in growing their empire in leaps and bounds. He is a terrible manager no doubt about that but his political prowess convinced us that he was one of us and that he was a down to earth guy despite being born in to wealth. Without him in the political arena Brookside diaries would be fine but nowhere close to the behemoth it is today.

David Ndii calls it state capture. We buy Brookside butter because it’s 300 shillings cheaper than KCC butter for the 1/2kg pack

Brookside has a lot of support from other konyagi family businesses like CBA n insurance covers.
Operation costs r very high in brookside due to overheads

Meaning it’s a loss making entity

You don’t know what you are talking about, Uhuru is very present through his brother and people his family has personally put in the board to oversee things. Dont be fooled, Uhuru and his family have some of the smartest people in this country running their enterprises and they are on top of things and very involved.

I wish he was that involved in steering the Kenyan Nation. In reality, the more prosperous Kenyans became, the more money would pour into Brookside. He could start by simply improving rural access roads to minimize on farm milk spoilage. Then zero rate the tax on cattle feed and other relevant farm inputs