Dire Shortage Of Timber Forcing Merchants To Import Commodity
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- Published on Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:24
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He reveals that the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has generated plantation logging plans, and is in the process of completing an inventory that will establish the extent of forest plantations in Kenya.
This plan he says, may help increase the forest cover that currently stands at 312,500 acres that comprises 6 percent of the gazetted forests in the country.
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Sawmillers lobby seeks fair tendering
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- Published on Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:20
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Small sawmillers have formed an association to enable them push for fair awarding of logging tenders in gazetted forests by the Kenya Forest Service.
The Timber Traders Association, made up of members who have decamped from the chief Timber Manufacturers Association, targets to register more than 1,000 members across the country.
Kenya to create one million jobs annually by 2016
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- Published on Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:04
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Dr Songa says the jobs will be created mainly in the leather, agro-processing, furniture, metal fabrication and other trades in the informal sector adding that the Ministry is currently laying the foundation to support this, which should be achieved by the year 2016.
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Burnley charity - Furniture for Education Worldwide - raises more than £15k in a single evening
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- Published on Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:08
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A BURNLEY charity has raised more than £15,000 in a single evening to send furniture to some of the most impoverished schools across the globe.
Furniture for Education Worldwide (FEW) was held the event at the Dunkenalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, which was attended by more than 300 of Lancashire’s business movers and shakers.
Global hotel chains invest millions in Kenya’s hospitality industry
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- Published on Thursday, 28 November 2013 09:56
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Hotel brands such as Kempinski, Emaar, Radisson Blu, Marriot, Park Inn Hilton and Lonrho have plans in place to construct hotels in Nairobi as Kenya positions itself as the financial, travel, and business hub of the East and Central African region.
Analysts have said that this is an indication of confidence in the growing hospitality sector in Kenya as international investors seek a slice of the action.
“It is a very good thing to the industry. As a country, we are in a position to attract foreign direct investments,” said Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers CEO Mike Macharia, during the recent Africa Hotel Investment Forum held in Nairobi.
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