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The Sh6 billion deal that separated Naivas from the limping retail crowd

Naivas Managing Director, David Kimani Mukuha, during an interview on August 20, 2020, at Naivas headquarters in Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

If you had told David Mukuha and his late brother Simon Gashwe three decades ago they would one day run a multi-billion-shilling retail business, they would probably have laughed it off and termed the prophecy as being beyond their wildest dreams.

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