According to Businessweek:”Capri Capital Partners is a principal investment firm specializing in mezzanine investments in real estate private and publicly held companies. The firm seeks to invest in real estate equity and debt-related products on behalf of pension funds and institutional investors. It makes investments in real estate with distinct competence in multifamily, industrial, commercial office, and retail.
It also provides equity joint ventures and acquires ownership between 50 per cent and 90 per cent, along with a preferred rate of return investments”

The company interest in the frontier market of Africa became apparent following their participation to the http://whartonafricaforum.com conference.

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• William Kamkwamba at MIT (makezine.com)

FINANCIAL
-2009 turnover of Kshs. 71.829 billion (~$945 million), and operating profit of 4.04 billion, pre-tax loss of 5.66 billion ($74.5 million) owing for fuel hedging.Compare to the 2008 numbers was saw  turnover of Kshs.60.47 billion and a pre-tax profit of Kshs. 6.52 billion.
- 76,703 shareholders, 35 243 who have immobilized their accounts.
- KQ has become more sensitive to fuel price changes and less sensitive to currency fluctuations – a 1% increase/decrease in fuel impact the profit by 269 million ($3.5 million). Report does not mention who fuel hedge partners are , but hedges ran up to December 2010.
- KA 49% stake in Tanzania’s Precision Air brought in 62 million in profit

-KA has loans of Kshs.32 billion (with 23 billion or ~$303 million) owed to Barclays, also from ABN Amro and EXIM Bank USA – all at rates between 4.5% and 6.6%

NON-FINANCIAL

-KA website receives 230,000 visits per month and sales resulting from the visits  have passed $10 million ( 1% of a year sales)

-KA established  an SMS alerrt number No. 7767 is  that passengers can use to get information of flight status, delays, cancellations etc.

- On time flights have gone up amid zero tolerance policy on delays

Kenyan Airways who now has 4,240 employees of which ,340 are pilots and 850  are cabin crew members.

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Editor note KA has social media presence via twitter @kenyaairways Kenya Airways on Facebook,KA on Youtube,KA on Flickr.

Kenyan Airways is traded on the Nairobi Stock Exchange

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• Barclays to Sell $12.3 Billion in Illiquid Assets (nytimes.com)

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Bloomfield financial recently conducted a financial risk assesment of the second largest seaport in Ivory Coast. This evaluation by the Ivorian financial group will arm with better tools this governemental entity in their future bids to attract domestic and international funding. See below the published article in french.

Bloomfield Financial Published Report in Fraternité Matin Newspaper

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