Nguo Yetu: Kenyan EPZ Company Targets Kenyans in Diaspora as Sales Agents
A Kenyan textile manufacturer is offering Kenyans in the diaspora the chance of becoming its agents in overseas markets.
Nguo Yetu—an export processing zone (EPZ) company—seeks to use Kenyans living and working abroad to expand its exports.
The company, which employs at least 300 people directly, is also seeking to enter into partnerships with foreign companies in certain strategic markets.
Nguo Yetu is one of the Kenyan companies whose products enter the US duty-free under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).
“You (Kenyan in diaspora) can be our global distributor. Just register on our e-commerce site, walk into your next-door retailer (in their respective countries and cities), and introduce yourself as a licensed distributor of one of the largest Kenya apparel manufacturers,” said Sheila Muirara, the CEO of Nguo Yetu.
“You can take advantage of such trade agreements like Agoa which guarantees Kenyan apparel entry into the US market duty-free and quota-free. Make money while building your country and helping create employment through the largest locally owned apparel maker at the EPZ.”
The US is one of the main markets the company is looking to make inroads into while working with Kenyans living and working there.
“Our main objective is to create opportunities for Kenyans as well as project Kenya as a hub for manufacturing globally,” said Muirara.
Last year, Kenyan companies earned Sh46 billion from exporting textiles and apparel to the US under Agoa, according to the Economic Survey.
Comments (9)
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Wamejichochaa sanaa.
Kenya clothes are expensive and low quality.
Let me state facts:
1. America clothes very good QUALITY.Sometimes pricey, but GOOD QUALITY.
Kenya clothes low QUALITY.
2. Cheap and low quality clothes are from China.
Fake designers (Imitation) are from China(Vietnam, Turkey, Indonesia)
Kenya clothes are low quality and not cheap.
If you live in America buy American clothes. Stop wearing expensive low quality clothes in America( leave primitive mentalities in Kenya).
Good luck .
These are Kikuyus pushing this nonesense.
If Kenyans in Kenya are not buying those clothes what makes you think Americans want to buy low quality expensive clothes???
This is why we need a REFEREDUM for independence(secession).
The lack of self awareness by some people is just shocking.
“The lack of self awareness by some people is just shocking.” Clean your own room first.
The Kenyan textile industry has reaaaaally improved over the last decade and more so, the last five.
To say that Kenyan clothes is of bad quality without offering any actual basis is traitorous. I have worked in MD logistics facilities where I’ve seen Kenyan textile products(Made in Kenya branded boxes 📦 w/ origin labels) made for more reputable US brand names.
Like you said, we really need to shift our mentalities and first truly love and appreciate ourselves.
One of the Kenyan textile companies that I often easily spot is Hela Intimates EPZ. (I even took some pics of their packages on my phone while inside a US warehouse). Hela for instance produces for Michael *madafkng* Kors among others.
Funding corruption,paying idle elite thugs,I.e,MCAs,SENATORS.MPs,governors,700 minister etc is what Muirara calls building the country.Only a mad person would think of building anything led by Uhuru
Find out where their money is coming from 1st. You could find yourself in a Kenya court. Also use better zippers.
I wound like to talk to people in Kenya interested in exporting the dresses. On condition I supply you with some finishing touches from USA (Buttons, zips, sewing thread and etc.
I saw some very good SCRUBS MADE IN KENYA at WALMART. If only the corrupt thieves would let Kenya flourish we would advance. Lakini hawa wezi. Mi husema mtu anakula mali ya Umma ataanza kuoza na kunuka kabla hajakufa.