Best investment opportunities in Kenya

Fred Murimi, Director of Centum Capital talks about the best investment opportunities in Kenya.

How would you evaluate your sector? What are the trends at the moment?

Centum is actually in 7 sectors of the economy. We are in real estate, financial services, fast moving consumer goods, power, agribusiness, health and education. We are privileged in the sense that we have a good view of what is happening in different sectors of the Kenyan economy.

Our business is to create investment opportunities that we can give to other investors. Across the 7 sectors that we are in we have seen a lot of growth and these are all very consumer facing sectors. These are the sectors that are benefiting from an increase in purchasing power from consumers. These are also sectors where many investors, both local and international, are looking for opportunities to enter.

Specifically with the foreign investors, I would say that they are looking for opportunities of quality and skill. Our business is to create and provide them with these opportunities. Across the board in the companies we have set up or invested in, we see a lot of growth and volumes are growing and that is mostly because of increasing consumer purchasing power.