How a furniture manufacturer turned to home office furniture

When coronavirus hit these shores, everything appeared to go south for Bucon Furnitures Ltd, a local firm specialising in the manufacture of office furniture.

Orders worth millions of shillings were either cancelled or put on hold. This could not have happened at a worse time since the company had just expanded its operations through acquisition of more factory space and purchase of a Sh30 million new state-of-the art machinery. There were loans to service and rents and salaries to pay.