#NAIROBI JAVA HOUSE CEO SHARES SECRET BEHIND CHAIN’S #SUCCESS

September 30, 2014.Reading time 10 minutes.

When three US-born former relief workers started the Nairobi Java House in Kenya 15 years ago, all they wanted was a place they could “get a good cup of coffee”. Today Java is East Africa’s largest coffee chain with 25 outlets in Kenya and Uganda. The company has also diversified into the pizza and frozen […]

FORMER DIASPORA, VAVA ANGWENYI DEFIES ODDS TO GROW HER OWN COFFEE BUSINESS

August 27, 2013.Reading time 10 minutes.

For the last four years, and despite many challenges and little support from the people around her, Kenyan Vava Angwenyi has dedicated her time and energy to building her own coffee company, Vava Coffee. For a long time colleagues in the industry did not take her seriously and assumed she would give up the ‘hobby’ […]