Silafrica’s SIMTANK: A Game-Changer in Water Storage Across East Africa
Water scarcity remains one of the most pressing challenges in East Africa, where reliable, safe, and durable storage solutions are essential not only for households …
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Water scarcity remains one of the most pressing challenges in East Africa, where reliable, safe, and durable storage solutions are essential not only for households …
In this conversation with MarcoPolis, Gavin Dehning, the Group CEO of Silafrica, a prominent packaging manufacturing company, discusses recent milestones and highlights major contracts with industry leaders Heineken and Coca Cola, offering valuable insights into the company’s strategic investments and expansive growth strategies across East Africa.
Jayesh Shah delves into the strategic evolution and current landscape of the family business. Focused on consolidating their ventures, Sumaria Group has streamlined its portfolio to emphasize three core entities: Silafrica, a leading packaging company; Nyanza Bottling, a Coca-Cola plant with over 35 years of thriving success; and their ginning company. Discover the unique journey and future aspirations of Sumaria Group as they seek new horizons in the global market.
Rakesh Rao, Group CEO of Crown Paints Kenya PLC, the number one paint manufacturing company in Kenya, discusses international presence and strategy.
In recent years, the FMCG packaging industry has undergone a period of rapid innovation, driven by changing consumer preferences and technological advancements. These changes have created new opportunities for brands to differentiate themselves and enhance the consumer experience. Silafrica, a leading producer of rigid plastic packaging solutions, has been at the forefront of these changes with its innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.
Altemius Millinga, Managing Director of Yetu Microfinance Bank PLC, shares his assessment of the microfinance sector in Tanzania and gives an overview of Yetu Microfinance, a bank specialized in providing financial services, loans, savings products, money transfer and payments to the lower end of the market of the financial sector spectrum.
Hipora Group is an integrated loss control and security organization that provides highly efficient and cost-effective pre-integrated business and security solutions to control losses in business, ranging from merchandise theft to pilferage, shoplifting, fraud, excessive discounting, paperwork mistakes, etc. Hipora serves a variety of sectors such as retail, manufacturing, trading, and processing industries.
Sebastian Dietzold talks about the latest developments in the construction and real estate sectors in Tanzania, and gives an overview of CPS, a company he founded in 2012 with the vision to design and implement sustainable and empowering urban developments in Africa, focusing on timber-framed houses. Providing affordable housing solutions, the urban developer is now applying to build the first CLT factory in the country.
Sebastian Dietzold, CEO at CPS Tanzania, an innovative and sustainable urban developer known for the Fumba Town development in Zanzibar, explains what sets CPS apart from the competition.
John Wanjohi and Francis Indimuli share their assessment of the security sector in Kenya and the region, and present Hipora, the leading loss control and inventory management company in East Africa. Hipora provides turnkey solutions which adopt the ultimate approach to identifying causes of losses in businesses and obtaining the necessary trail of evidence to make the necessary recommendations to curtail inventory and stock losses.