The EastAfricanBusiness /business/-/2560/2560/-/onenc5/-/index.html No dent in Swissport earnings a year after loss of monopoly http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/No%20dent%20in%20Swissport%20earnings%20a%20year%20after%20loss%20of%20monopoly/-/2560/998892/-/2dqw0az/-/index.html Swissport Tanzania has reported improved results for the first six months of 2010 despite a decrease in the number of flights and cargo handled. 2010-08-30T16:46:20Z Flower farming in Kenya slowly wilting http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Flower%20farming%20in%20Kenya%20slowly%20wilting/-/2560/998888/-/11ng1u3/-/index.html The high cost of doing business and lack of sector-specific incentives is costing Kenya foreign direct investment in the flower industry. 2010-08-30T16:34:22Z Mobile price wars catch operators off guard http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Mobile%20price%20wars%20catch%20operators%20off%20guard/-/2560/998864/-/148p9q2/-/index.html Bharti Airtel two weeks ago fired the first salvo in the battle to wrest market share from Kenya’s dominant telecommunications player, Safaricom. 2010-08-30T15:46:38Z Indian firm to expand Tanzania cement plant http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Indian%20firm%20to%20expand%20Tanzania%20cement%20plant/-/2560/994334/-/nf04bf/-/index.html India-based Banco Products is investing $65 million in its cement plant in Tanzania, which targets the East African market. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z Tanzania political elite turn to blogs, Twitter for votes http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Tanzania%20political%20elite%20turn%20to%20blogs%20Twitter%20for%20votes/-/2560/994358/-/1bvawz/-/index.html Not all politicians are created equal, and in the age of Internet there is little that can be done to hide this fact. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z ‘Premier’ brings new life to Barclays ... http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Premier%20brings%20new%20life%20to%20Barclays/-/2560/994346/-/m8mcuv/-/index.html After three years of intense pursuit of the retail segment, Barclays Bank Uganda has rolled out a “Premier Life,” package that targets middle and high income clients. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z After success of vote, Kenya keen on Eurobond http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/After%20success%20of%20vote%20Kenya%20keen%20on%20Eurobond/-/2560/994328/-/v9pn9lz/-/index.html Kenya is once again preparing to float a Eurobond due to the prevailing political stability. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z How investors can take advantage of liens http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/How%20investors%20can%20take%20advantage%20of%20liens/-/2560/994338/-/14h1qmdz/-/index.html The sizzling real estate market demands different investment strategies. 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z Alliances, mergers are the future of airlines http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Alliances%20mergers%20are%20the%20future%20of%20airlines/-/2560/976894/-/vg0r89z/-/index.html The PrecisionAir Services chairman spoke to Mike Mande in Dar es Salaam 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z We’re not late into the 3G market, we actually planned it that way http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/976898/-/3t05waz/-/index.html The MTN Uganda chief executive spoke to Julius Barigaba about the firm’s recent deployment of the 3G network 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z Why is Equity worth more than KCB? http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Why%20is%20Equity%20worth%20more%20than%20KCB/-/2560/976882/-/mwuuff/-/index.html KCB and Equity Bank were valued in the same league at the beginning of 2010. 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z Beware, the property bubble is about to burst http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Beware%20the%20property%20bubble%20is%20about%20to%20burst/-/2560/976888/-/ooj581z/-/index.html Property investors in Nairobi and other cities are blowing large bubbles but the burst won’t be long. 2010-08-15T21:00:00Z To be online is nothing, to be visible is everything http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/To%20be%20online%20is%20nothing%20to%20be%20visible%20is%20everything/-/2560/972970/-/11e2r3m/-/index.html Online public relations refers to traditional public relations extended online. In this case, online defines media such as the Internet, web and commercial online services like America OnLine, Yahoo and others. 2010-08-08T21:00:00Z Alexander Forbes targeting small inhouse medical insurance schemes http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/972962/-/3t2whcz/-/index.html Reaching out to the unreached with medical insurance in East Africa is the strategy that medical insurance provider, Alexander Forbes Healthcare, is using to grow its market share. 2010-08-08T21:00:00Z KCB completes regional rollout of new IT system http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/KCB%20completes%20regional%20rollout%20of%20new%20IT%20system/-/2560/972974/-/11r84a9z/-/index.html KCB Bank has completed the rollout of its new IT system to all its branches in East Africa, enabling all of the group’s 213 outlets to be on the same one-branch banking platform. 2010-08-08T21:00:00Z Africa’s private equity market flush with cash http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Africas%20private%20equity%20market%20flush%20with%20cash/-/2560/972966/-/g0dq30z/-/index.html The private equity market in sub-Saharan Africa is bubbling with optimism, following a promising performance over the past six months. 2010-08-08T21:00:00Z Equity Bank Uganda Branch posts $7.4m loss http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/968332/-/3tkf91z/-/index.html Equity Bank Uganda Ltd, a subsidiary of the Equity Bank Group, has posted a loss of $7.414 million (Ksh600 million) in the first half of the year. 2010-08-02T14:13:34Z Retailers, buyers suffer as coins shortage bites hard http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/968330/-/3tkf93z/-/index.html An acute shortage of coins has hit the Kenyan market complicating transactions for essential, but low-cost goods and services. 2010-08-02T14:07:47Z For Generation Y, succeeding at an early age is key http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/968326/-/3tkf9sz/-/index.html They are probably the least understood segment of the workforce. What human resource managers of the firms they work for consider as incentives do not really matter. 2010-08-02T13:40:46Z Banks making huge profits by gambling on food prices http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Banks%20making%20huge%20profits%20by%20gambling%20on%20food%20prices/-/2560/968790/-/lxosr2/-/index.html In June of this year the price of coffee on the international market sky rocketed almost 20 per cent in three days, on the London Stock Exchange. 2010-08-01T21:00:00Z Equity Bank eyes markets in 10 African countries http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/968328/-/3tkf9qz/-/index.html First it was the grand entry of Helios with some Ksh11 billion ($135.9 million). Then the bank acquired Uganda’s mirco finance bank. 2010-07-31T13:55:47Z Safaricom fires up its M&A machine to capture data market http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/963876/-/3tnrsxz/-/index.html It was only a matter of when, not if, that Safaricom would fish out firms from the small pond of ICT providers to enable it grow its data business. 2010-07-25T21:57:00Z Plotting a second act at Telkom Kenya http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Plotting%20a%20second%20act%20at%20Telkom%20Kenya/-/2560/963846/-/luevdx/-/index.html Three years ago, the team sent by France Telecom to run its newly acquired business in Kenya misread the local market and stumbled dangerously in the first three years of buying Telkom Kenya for $390 million. 2010-07-25T21:00:00Z Africa in the limelight as mobile phones promise more growth http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Africa%20in%20the%20limelight%20as%20mobile%20phones%20promise%20more%20growth/-/2560/964426/-/xpqyps/-/index.html As the world celebrates this month’s signing up of the five-billionth mobile phone subscriber, Africa is stepping forward to claim credit as one of the regions that have driven the phenomenal growth over the past decade. 2010-07-25T21:00:00Z Bold APA rewrites the strict laws of insurance to cover dreaded 'acts of mankind' http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/963824/-/3tnrxfz/-/index.html Faced with stiff competition and a market still suffering from the global recession, one insurance company is out to change the rules of the game. It is offering to cover some of the most dreaded “acts of mankind”. 2010-07-25T21:00:00Z