REA VIPINGO LIMITED (REAV)

Posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:48pm.

Madison Insurance House, Upper Hill Road
P.O Box 17648 Nairobi-00500

Phone No.  254 20 2725558
Fax No. 254 20 2721422

Chairman Mr. Oliver Fowler
CEO or MD Mr. Neil Cuthbert
Name of External Affairs or Press contact Ian Hodson

The largest Sisal fibre producer in Africa, the REA Vipingo Group is a well established agricultural business, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. The company is listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) and owns and operates a flourishing sisal business, whose activities include:

• cultivation
• manufacture
• spinning
• export of sisal fibre and sisal products

The REA Vipingo group companies are well capitalised, with a strong equity base and sound management. They include sisal estates in Kenya and Tanzania, a spinning mill in Tanga, Tanzania, and warehouses in the ports of Mombasa, Kenya and Tanga, Tanzania.

With a sisal fibre production of over 16,000 tonnes per annum the company is, by far, the largest sisal fibre producer in Africa. Other than some fibre that is used in the group’s sisal spinning mill in Tanzania, all fibre produced is exported.

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