EABL, Diageo directors face $300m fine in Supreme Court suit

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Bia Tosha Distributors limited managing director Anne-Marie Burugu at the firm’s warehouse at Industrial Area in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Directors of East African Breweries Limited (EABL) and its parent company Diageo face multi-billion shilling fines after being accused of disobeying a Supreme Court order on a beer supply contract.

The brewer’s former supplier, Bia Tosha Distributors Ltd, wants the directors to be fined an equivalent of 20 percent of EABL’s sales, or Ksh39 billion ($300 million), for refusing to give it back beer distributorship routes in parts of Nairobi, Machakos and Kajiado.