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I found fortune in pyrethrum

Kapi managing director Ian Shaw. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

For the last 14 years, Ian Shaw has been running Kapi Ltd - steering it into one of the region’s largest manufacturers of pyrethrum products.

This is after he settled in Kenya in 2008. The 58-year-old Nakuru-based firm (Kapi) used to own some of Africa’s largest pyrethrum farms but stopped in 2014 to focus on its core business of manufacturing.

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