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Business Beat: Getting investors: It's not just about money
MY TIP IS: Pick investors for your business wisely. Speaking from experience, getting financing from the wrong sort of person or business can destroy a dream you have worked hard to build.
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Business Beat: How integration will lead to EA's prosperity
East African ministers and secretariat members hold 800 meetings each year. That is an average of three meetings each day, all aimed at navigating the complex nature of the East African Community's integration process.
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Business Beat: Corporate IV - Coke
Coca-Cola has made a splash with its Â?Share a Coke' global campaign, which has been termed Â?a truly disruptive idea'. Business Beat had a chat with Ms Mona Karingi, Coca-Cola Kenya's marketing manager, to discuss the execution of the idea in Kenya.
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Business Beat: In Brief: ABC Bank inks deal with US firm to up diaspora remittances
ABC Bank and US money transfer service Trans-Fast have signed an agency agreement to enable diaspora customers easily send money to Kenya.
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Business Beat: Boost for informal sector as pension regulator registers 16 schemes
The Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA) has registered 16 umbrella retirement schemes to tap into the Sh800 billion industry. The move aims at boosting savings and expanding retirement plans to cover the informal sector.
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Business Beat: Dar gas plan gives priority to domestic use over exports
Tanzania will give priority to domestic use of its natural gas resources over exports under energy policy draft measures. The measures were approved by new Energy and Minerals Minister George Simbachawene.
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Business Beat: Big money in football stokes battle to control the pie
Less than five years ago, talks of a player transfer attracting a signing fee within the Kenyan football scene was as alien as snow in Africa. Player sales seemed a preserve of big European and South American football giants and in the process, amassing huge amounts in transfer deals.
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Business Beat: Some of the big money deals
On February 13, leading supermarket chain Nakumatt announced it will spend Sh45 million on player signings and salaries for their football team Nakumatt FC ahead of the new football season.
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Business Beat: Kebs warns outlets on repackaged, rebranded items
The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has directed supermarkets that repack and rebrand foods to maintain standards set by the regulator. The standardisation body has also sent a cautionary note to all supermarkets who repackage and rebrand goods they have not manufactured to ensure the products are certified.
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Business Beat: eBay motors: The safe way to buy your car and find a fair price
Cars are expensive - so it can make a lot of sense to search for a second-hand bargain before a car salesman wins you over.