Want to export? Get your facts right

In 2007, Mr Wilberforce Ngugi stepped into Sheria House along Harambee Avenue in Nairobi to register Roypack Entreprises, a company through which he intended to export beans to the UK and the Netherlands. But it wasn’t until 2015, some nine years later that Ngugi started making money from his export firm.

He had worked for other export companies before, mainly as a field officer from the time he left high school in 2002. Most companies he worked for supplied fresh vegetables and fruits to countries abroad. In other firms, he worked as an account officer, handling top clients abroad and tracking containers that were shipped to the clients.