Kwale Sugar-what happened?

Business
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@Meria Mata please investigate.
Some four years ago, this Sugar factory in Kwale was coming up fast and according to its website, it was proclaiming that Kwale Sugar will be the ultimate solution to the Kenyan perennial sugar shortage. So many tenders were advertised in the dailies, and since I had some supplier interest, I submitted a tender.

Then everything went quiet. Eerie kind of quiet.

Their website has never been updated since 2014, and I have not seen a single bag of Kwale Sugar in the market.
Can someone explain what happened? Calls to their office get no or unsatisfactory response.
The website is http://www.kwale-group.com/product.html

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a guy i know was working there, mwenyewe ni muhindi na kuwatreat tu vibaya vibaya and he had to leave; maybe hivo ndio iliendanga

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sawa, let me see what i can dig up

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Uliza spear labda ilikuwa kwa zile thread zake za jubilee dev

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Hiyo @spear hawesi weka juu anajua iko sida. Chupi-lee wanapenda ku hijack succussful private projects only.
Nasa hao!

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sasa unataka wawa bail out ama?

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Just

to make

sure

you

get

notifications.

I think you are retarded. Who said anything about bailing out

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i got only one notification; and you dont need to quote my comment 100 times to prove that i am retarded i already know that i am a retard

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Ok. case closed

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Last i heard they wanted to introduce the smaller SKU’s as they were only selling the 50kg bags
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/Kwale-miller-mass-market-sugar/539550-3928766-3wri30z/index.html
This was in May

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Yeah, he should ask @spear in Klost, the sycophant had posted pictures of the factory

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Call me Mr. Sycophant in full si hii kidogo kidogo tu. Yes I’m very proud of any investor coming here to put his money in economic development. Any labour disputes have several independent institutions to deal with them. Unions, arbitration and courts.

Its good to know my fans follow all my post passionately to know what I post or not. Keep it up. I wouldn’t let you all down.

Lastly sijawahi ona post kama hii, it has 20 comments but I can only view 4 of them, ata heading and original post is missing.

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Hooraaahhh… Fala wewe ni fala tu

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One of the many issues Kwale Sugar faces is lack of supply of raw material. The local community simply doesn’t produce enough to sustain the factory. They go through the full harvest in such a short time, its simply not feasible to keep the factory open.

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Can they ship from Western. Or does this hammer their profits?

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All farmers in Western are already tied to the factories there.Plus, it would make ZERO sense to transportcane 600 kilometres to be crushed in a factory.In fact, even 100 kilometres is not financialy viable.That is why there is a high density of factories in the sugar zone.
The issue with Kwale International is that it has few reliable farmers.Most of its cane comes from the Ramisi nucleus farm. It is only able to survive because of the shorter growing season of cane at the Coast.Otherwise, it would be another Mumias.

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Kwale sugar is no longer owned by a muhindi. It is owned by some guys from Mauritius who also own Transmara sugar. They rely on irrigation. This private millers are a gem.