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AmCham Business Summit 2024
  • Meg Whitman, US Ambassador to Kenya, highlights key investment opportunities in Kenya, particularly in the creative industry and clean energy.
  • She noted that Kenya has the potential to become the Singapore of Africa through vertical business integration, job creation, innovation, and foreign direct investment.
  • AmCham Business Summit 2024 seeks to strengthen bilateral trade and investment between the US, Kenya, and East Africa.

The fourth edition of the regional American Chamber of Commerce Kenya (AmCham) Business Summit, has officially kicked off in Nairobi, Kenya, under the theme, ‘Catalyzing The Future of US-East Africa Trade and Investment’.

This year’s forum underscores AmCham Business Summit as the premier platform for strengthening bilateral trade and investment between the United States, Kenya, and East Africa.

Hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), the two-day Summit has brought together delegates from the United States of America, East and Sub-Saharan Africa in efforts to deliberate and …

Kentegra Biotechnology
  • US-Kenyan company Kentegra Biotechnology Holding has announced plans to set up a plant  in Kenya. 
  • The company is constructing a processing plant in Naivasha that will benefit Kenya’s  small-scale pyrethrum farmers.
  • Kentegra Biotechnology, which produces and sells pyrethrin extracted from dried pyrethrum flowers to global insecticide and pesticide manufacturers, seeks to work with over 90,000 small-scale pyrethrum farmers. 

US-Kenyan company Kentegra Biotechnology Holding has announced plans to set up a pyrethrum plant in Kenya. The company is constructing a processing plant in Naivasha, which will benefit Kenya’s small-scale pyrethrum farmers.

The company, known for producing and selling pyrethrin extracted from dried pyrethrum flowers to global insecticide and pesticide manufacturers, is in the process of signing contracts with roughly 90,000 small-scale pyrethrum farmers.

This development follows the firm’s recent deal to receive $15 million in equity and loan financing from Finnish development financier Finnfund and the United States Development Finance