Rwathia heirs emerge from the shadows of their enterprising fathers

Rwathia Distributors Managing Director Maina Gikonyo.Right, Magomano Hotel, one of the businesses owned by Gikonyo. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

For almost two decades now, Maina Gikonyo has been trusted with one of the crown jewels of the Rwathia Group business empire.

The managing director of Rwathia Distributors, one of Kenya’s oldest and biggest beer distributors formed in 1964, is very much his father’s son.