KENYA PAINT MARKET AND INDUSTRY GROWING INTI KEY EAST AFRICAN HUB
February 1st, 2017
KENYA has long been regarded as east Africa’s economic powerhouse, with residential and industrial construction boosting sales of paints and coatings – and for now there seems to be no halt in this progress. Indeed, the last World Bank assessment of growth in this 45 million people country was that GDP rose by 5.6% in 2015.
A resulting construction boom of affordable housing units, up-market gated housing estates for the middle-class, as well as office complexes in Nairobi and regional centres, such as Kenya’s 46 county towns, have all boosted ...
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