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East Africa’s largest battery manufacturer, Eveready, has shut down, blaming rising cheap battery imports which have slashed the capacity of the plant to a mere 25 per cent.
The five-decade-old company will stop manufacturing the iconic Eveready battery locally effective tomorrow and will instead import the batteries from its partner, Energizer Battery of Egypt.
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