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Kim-Fay, a number one producer and distributor of hygiene, tissue and residential care merchandise in East Africa, has acquired financing from the Norwegian Funding Fund for Growing Nations (Norfund) and I&M Financial institution for its new facility in Tatu Metropolis, the 5,000-hectare mixed-use particular financial zone close to Nairobi.
The financing from Norfund and I&M Financial institution will assist Kim-Fay’s enterprise growth, with a give attention to offering reasonably priced tissue paper to decrease earnings market segments. The funds will likely be used to construct a brand new recycled paper mill in Tatu Metropolis, utilizing regionally produced waste paper. The brand new mill is anticipated to be operational in 2025.
“This funding comes at a vital time as demand for tissues and hygiene merchandise continues to develop in Kenya and throughout East Africa,” stated Raj Bains, Chief Government Officer at Kim-Fay. “Our new facility in Tatu Metropolis will allow us to satisfy this demand extra effectively whereas supporting our sustainability dedication with recycled supplies. We thank Norfund and I&M Financial institution for his or her assist on this endeavor.”
David Karimi, Deputy Nation Head and Head of Gross sales at Tatu Metropolis, stated: “We’re delighted to welcome Kim-Fay to Tatu Metropolis. This partnership not solely strengthens Tatu Metropolis’s place as a premier funding vacation spot but in addition aligns with our mission to advertise financial progress and sustainable improvement. The partnership with Norfund and I&M Financial institution underlines the attractiveness of Tatu Metropolis to world-class companies that contribute to Kenya’s financial progress.”
Kim-Fay is licensed in Kenya to fabricate, market and distribute merchandise for Kimberly-Clark, the world’s largest shopper paper producer, with world manufacturers equivalent to Kleenex, Kotex and Huggies. The corporate additionally distributes Unilever’s Dove and Lux manufacturers within the area. It just lately signed a distribution settlement with Dabur Restricted, the Indian multinational shopper items firm identified for its Ayurvedic merchandise.
The funding by Norfund and I&M Financial institution suits inside Norfund’s mandate to assist sustainable companies, create employment and enhance lives in creating international locations.
William Nyaoke, Director East Africa at Norfund, commented: “We’re excited to companion with I&M Financial institution to finance the growth of Kim-Fay and the event of a state-of-the-art waste paper recycling facility in Tatu Metropolis. This undertaking is a testomony to our dedication to selling sustainable enterprise practices and financial progress within the area.”
Edward Burbidge, Chief Government Officer at I&M Burbidge Capital, commented: “We’re happy to have suggested Kim-Fay on its debt capital financing and are happy to have led the method of figuring out main, long-term financing companions for the Tatu Metropolis tissue manufacturing facility.”
Kim-Fay’s product vary contains child care, female hygiene and private care merchandise, presently serving markets in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. The corporate’s strategic give attention to affordability and sustainability positions it properly to satisfy the rising demand for hygiene merchandise, pushed by a rising center class and higher shopper consciousness of hygiene practices.
Greater than 80 native, regional and worldwide firms are operational or creating in Tatu Metropolis’s business-friendly setting, together with CCI World, Heineken, Dormans, Kärcher, Cooper Okay-Manufacturers, Grit Actual Property Revenue Group, Twiga Meals, Freight Forwarders Options, ADvTECH, Friendship Group and Davis & Shirtliff.
Enterprise advantages at Tatu Metropolis SEZ embrace 0% VAT exemption, import and stamp obligation exemptions, and 10% company earnings tax for the primary 10 years and 15% for the ten years thereafter.
About Tatu Metropolis (https://www.tatucity.com/)
Tatu Metropolis is a 5,000 hectare new metropolis on Nairobi’s doorstep with houses, colleges, companies, a procuring precinct, a medical clinic, nature reserves and recreation for over 250,000 residents and tens of 1000’s of day guests. Tatu Metropolis’s colleges educate 1000’s of scholars every day, a spread of housing caters for all incomes and over 80 companies thrive within the nation’s first operational Particular Financial Zone. Positioned half-hour from Westlands, Tatu Metropolis represents a brand new lifestyle and pondering for all Kenyans in a reside, work and play setting free from site visitors congestion and long-distance commuting.
Tatu Metropolis is a improvement of Rendeavour, Africa’s largest new metropolis builder with 30,000 acres of visionary initiatives on progress trajectories in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. For extra details about Rendeavour, go to https://www.rendeavour.com/.
Kim-Fay companions with Norfund and I&M Financial institution on world-class facility in Tatu Metropolis, Kenya
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