At Trendtype we have decided to put our thoughts down on paper, as it were. Headline: there are lots of reasons to believe that African countries may emerge from COVID-19 in better (or less worse) shape than developed economies in …

Kenya-based online supply chain platform Sokowatch has raised $14m in Series A funding. The B2B startup connects small retailers with multinational manufacturers including P&G and Unilever, enabling them to order products via SMS or mobile app, with delivery to their …

Kenya’s #2 supermarket chain, Tuskys, has announced a round of redundancies on the back of a fall in profits for the second successive year. Tuskys has 6,000 employees in Kenya and Uganda, but has not revealed how many are being …

The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has fined Carrefour’s franchisee Majid al Futtaim’s (MAF) for unfair trade practices. It has ordered the retailer to review its supplier agreements within 60 days, and to remove what it considers punitive clauses in supplier …