LG Electronics (LG) has unveiled a new brand shop in Nairobi’s northern suburbs as it steps up a campaign to take its products and services closer to consumers. The new shop at Thika Road Mall [c]
Delivery firm Glovo has partnered with Kenyan supermarket Chandarana Foodplus with the intent to link its customers to an ever-expanding portfolio of niche outlets. Speaking during the partnership announcement, Priscilla Muhiu, Glovo’s GM for Kenya, said that the move will benefit Chandarana [c]
MultiChoice Africa is set to admit the next generation of young film creatives to the MTF Academy hubs in Nairobi, Lagos and Lusaka as part of the Class of 2022. After a 6-week selection process [c]
Digital billboards around the Kenyan capital have started to live stream Nairobi’s real-time air pollution in an effort to increase air quality awareness among the city’s 4.7 million inhabitants. The initiative – by the UN Environment [c]
Supermarket chain Naivas has inked a strategic partnership with Africa’s e-commerce platform, Jumia, to give consumers a better shopping experience with access to a wide range of products. Consumers along Ngong Road, Community Area, Hurlingham, [c]
For the third year in a row, the German Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya is calling on Kenya’s content creators to participate in a mobile phone short video competition. The contest is calling on Kenyans to [c]
Carrefour, owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim in Kenya, has opened a new store at the Southfield Mall in Embakasi as part of its ongoing expansion programme. The latest supermarket will serve customers from [c]
NCBA Bank has partnered with service provider, MySafe Vaults, to offer alternative safety deposit facilities to customers in Nairobi. Under the new partnership, customers who had limited access or lack of safety deposit facilities at [c]
The iHub Nairobi will launch the inaugural EdTech Festival; an immersive learning and funfair experience in the world of education and technology. Participants will interact with different EdTech products, take part in arduino and coding [c]
Nairobi-based Ed Partners Africa, an affordable private schools financing company, has raised $1.9 million (Kshs 205 million) to expand its presence and enable the unserved affordable private schools market access to credit. The funds were [c]
Glovo, the global on-demand delivery platform headquartered in Barcelona, has opened its first micro fulfillment center in Nairobi, Kenya, as the company expands its ‘Q-commerce’ division (that’s “Q” for quick). Q-Commerce means that consumers can [c]
Penda Health, a medical services provider operating 21 medical centres in Nairobi and its environs, has opened an in-network referral center offering specialist services to its clients as it expands its affordable health care model [c]
Huawei Mobile Kenya will run a 5-day campaign aimed at giving discounts on various products and services in their Huawei Experience Stores in Nairobi. The Huawei Experience Stores include Sarit Center, Yaya Center, Village Market [c]
Truecaller is a technology company of Swedish origin. We have been present in Kenya and across the world for over 10 years now. Our commitment to technological innovation and bringing technology to the masses is [c]
Safaricom has announced the launch of trials for the trail-blazing 5G technology for its customers. The trial will begin with both individual and enterprise customers in Nairobi, Kisumu, Kisii and Kakamega. As part of its [c]
The African fintech startup scene is set for a boost after Flourish Ventures, a global fintech venture capital firm, announced a new office based in Nairobi to help its investment team better serve entrepreneurs across [c]
Chipper Cash, Africa’s fastest-growing money transfer platform, has partnered with Atotos Sports to provide professional training for Kenyan coaches who come from disadvantaged backgrounds within Nairobi. The training is set to take four weeks and [c]
Swvl Kenya has announced the resumption of its regular commuter services across Nairobi city as it aims to scale up operations in the country. This will add to their recently launched innovations; Swvl Carpool and Swvl Travel, [c]
Crime & Justice features a heavy-weight cast with Sarah Hassan (Plan B, How to Find a Husband) and Alfred Munyua (Poacher, The First Grader, Sense8) starring as Makena and Silas, the two detectives at the heart of the topical show that follows one ripped-from-the-headlines case per episode, all the way through to the [c]
Safaricom has re-opened its newly refurbished Moi Avenue retail shop after four months of renovation as part of its journey towards being a purpose-led customer-obsessed technology company. This first-of-a-kind digitized flagship shop has a video [c]
Infection prevention is the phrase that is on everyone’s mind today. How do we do it? How do we ensure we are doing it well? What are the best protocols? Well, interestingly, a local firm [c]
HEVA, the East African creative economy catalyst fund, in collaboration with the traders of Uhuru Market in Nairobi, and Kenya’s National Government’s SMEs Advisory Unit, has unveiled an online e-commerce platform that will enable over [c]
The matatu industry in Nairobi is a lucrative and a colourful one, but it is also an industry riddled with crime and violence, and often accused of colluding with criminal gangs to hijack passengers. It [c]
LG Electronics has opened its first commercial laundry Reference store in Nairobi at Buruburu Shopping Centre, introducing the company’s range of commercial washers and dryers in Kenya. The Reference store is designed to provide customers [c]
PAIX Data Centres, a pan-African provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has commenced the construction of its Nairobi data centre “PAIX Nairobi-1” which should be complete and ready for opening in November [c]
LG Electronics has launched its LG ThinQ Experience Zone in Kenya, designed to let visitors experience its artificially intelligent products, at the Sarit Centre. The ThinQ Zone located in the recently re-launched Hotpoint Sarit Centre [c]
Cold Solutions Kenya, a temperature-controlled warehouse and logistics service provider, has announced that it will invest Kshs 7.5 billion ($70 million) to construct modern, temperature-controlled cold storage warehouses in the country. The cold storage facilities [c]
When it comes to better understanding the transportation needs of cities in Kenya, a lot of importance needs to be placed on developing solutions that will make cities more efficient. This is why Uber and [c]
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, has opened its first regional office in sub-Saharan Africa (S-SA). Based in Nairobi, Kenya, the office will be [c]
Safaricom has announced the temporary closure of four additional shops in Nairobi, Mombasa and Thika as a proactive and preventative measure to safeguard the health and wellbeing of its staff and customers. The four latest [c]
UAP Old Mutual General Business has partnered with Uber to provide 3-ply masks worth Kshs 2.75 million to Uber drivers in Nairobi and Mombasa. The distribution of the face masks was done from the AutoXpress [c]
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