KENYA’S GROWING MIDDLE CLASS IS EXPANDING DAIRY MARKET WITHIN EAST AFRICA’S ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE

IT is fair to say that cheese and other processed dairy products have not traditionally played a key role in tickling the Kenyan collective palate, but that was yesterday. Now, as the country, east Africa’s economic dynamo, grows a middle class interested in consumer consumption, there has been exponential growing demand for dairy products of all kinds. Kenya’s dairy sales have seen steady growth over the years, according to London-based market reserach company Euromonitor International. The country’s USD2.48 billion dairy sales in 2017 reached USD2.68 ...


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