Lessons from Kune Foods for budding entrepreneurs and politicians

Kune recently closed shop less than a year into operations. [iStockphoto]

Kenya is regarded as one of Africa’s most fecund grounds for business start-ups.

Certainly so, when one considers that over 20 new businesses have been registered over the past two years attracting impressive amounts of foreign capital. But it has not been all rosy with some like food company Kune going belly up.