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East Africa: How Debt Took Down My Nakumatt Empire - CEO
Nairobi News, 15 January 2018
For more than two decades, Atul Shah perched on the high pedestal of the regional retail business having built eastern Africa's biggest supermarket chain, Nakumatt. Read more »
How Debt Took Down East Africa's Nakumatt Empire
At its peak, the Nakumatt retail chain had 63 stores across East Africa. Today, the regional branch count has nearly halved to 34, with 27 stores in Kenya, three in Rwanda and four in Tanzania - and 1,500 people are out of jobs. CEO Atul Shah is clear on what caused the meltdown: the business expanded too fast on borrowed funds.
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