Kenyan firm taps into West African market with new food factory

Ariel Foods Chairman Dhiren Chandaria and a Lagos State Government delegation open a nutritional foods production facility in Alaro City, Nigeria.

Kenyan firms are increasingly venturing beyond the country’s borders in search of new markets and growth opportunities.

Buoyed by successes back home and hunger for better profit margins, some firms are looking beyond the East African countries and especially Rwanda and South Sudan, that have been the popular launch pads for foreign market forays.