The Standard Group Plc is a
multi-media organization with investments in media platforms spanning newspaper
print operations, television, radio broadcasting, digital and online services. The
Standard Group is recognized as a leading multi-media house in Kenya with a key
influence in matters of national and international interest.
Anyone passing near the former Webuye Pan Paper, now Rai Paper, along the Eldoret–Webuye–Bungoma Road, would once have been greeted by three unmistakable sensations: the acrid smell of chemicals, the deafening noise of machinery, and thick smoke billowing from its chimneys.
This was before the factory’s collapse around 2009, when the familiar white smoke faded and the machines fell silent.
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