Entrepreneur Spotlight: Nyakio Kamoche
I always like to use this blog to promote Kenyan Entrepreneurs and their businesses. Today, I want to highlight this fragrance company started by a childhood friend of mine. The name of the company is called Safi Fragrances. The founder of the company is called Nyakio Kamoche and you’ve probably seen some of her other products at large department stores across America under the name “Nyakio“.
So, check out her products. I’ve tried a few of them and they are all very good and the ladies should purchase some of these products for themselves. The guys should buy these products for their girlfriends or wives. They’ll appreciate having a perfume bottle in the house with a Swahili name on it! Where else in America are you going to go into a large store like TJ Maxx and see products with names like Mombasa Candle and Kitale Serum?
Support your fellow Kenyan Entrepreneurs……
Those fragrances look ravishing.
Nyakio should embark on a global marketing campaign to make her presence felt worldwide.
The EU market is huge and waiting to be exploited.
Well done to her!
Nice site but $47 is a little steep for me… I do not recall seeing kiwis when growing up in Kenya… so where did her granny get kiwis from?
coldtusker:
your significant other is not worth $50 dollars?
All kinds of exotic fruits and vegetables are grown in Kenya. Just because kenyans don’t eat them, doesn’t mean they are not grown. You need to take a trip to Limuru and see all the vegetables they grow that kenyans don’t eat (brussel sprouts, bok choy, eggplant, etc, etc)
If you want to see exotic fruits, then go to Kitui – they have pomengranates, kiwi’s and all sorts of other fruits ( and the best tasting goats – the one’s that lick that salty soil: they produce the best tasting nyama choma).
KE: Kiwis in Kitui???? Ur kidding me…
BTW, I can guarantee in writing there were no kiwis in Kenya during Nyakio’s grandma’s time when she was working the farm… kiwis are Chinese Gooseberries and are a hybrid thus not available in Kenya until the 1990s. And at $50… she would have to grow a lot of coffee… to afford Nyakio’s products! It’s far cheaper to buy a decent pair of gumboots!
Authenticity… kiwis ain’t authentic Kenya. Until you can show me that kiwis are grown in Kenya… Papayas, bananas, etc… these are tropical fruits. Apples & other temperate fruits are grown in Limuru, Nyeri, etc… Kitui is hot… not temperate!
About the $50 (per jar!!!!)… I ain’t spending $50… on a little jar… pole… but not me…
I’m amused by CT’s unwillingness to part with $50, even as I remember someone to whom parting with $500 for a small jar was no problem.
egm: For $50… I will mash my own kiwis (at USc25 a piece) and sugar (100/- a kg) in a tub…
I admit… I will spend $50 on a bottle of parfum but… it lasts me ages… I don’t swim in it…
Hey… $50 might be worth more to me then your $500 friend…
(Unless it guarantees me you know what)
CT return on investments, eh?
But I get your point on mashing your own kiwis. There are somethings I’d much rather do myself than part with my hard earned cash. But then there are others I might as well let someone else do for me and I pay them. Like the outsourcing post KE has regarding household chores.
KE: This is great! Now, if only I could find a store local to me to find the products…found one…you know how impossible it is to find anything here in Shags…most times, a trip to the city is warranted!!
Btw, I think the prices are comparable to most other products in the same line. Do you think we react with surprise when we realize that it’s a Kenyan charging those prices, yet if it were anyone else, we would not question? Just curious…
I think WG has raised a moot point by saying that “we” are suprised when we find that it is a Kenyan charging those prices.
A lawyer friend of mine raised this very point the other day as we were having a drink. He is of the opinion that it is to do with colonial brainwashing. He reckons that Kenyans would rather give their custom to an Asian/White supplier. It may not necessarily be a business decision. It is purely a colour issue.
It may be possible that Kenyans have an inferiority complex going back to the colonial times that needs purging.
But I digress! Nyakio’s products look fantastic. I agree with Josh that she should do a serious marketing campaign to make her a household name.
I will certainly consider buying something from her.
Erm… I do not care who makes it… colour, creed, race, sex, etc… too much for me (unless…
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