Well, true but there seems to be a shortage of sellers. Williamson had buyer no sellers... I think the sellers who would have sold are long gone...

BTW, 4,500 for Kakuzi is a lot of shares! Very closely held... the top 10 shareholders hardly change. And I am sure many of the smaller shareholders are based in the UK. Wazungu who lived in Kenya or had families in Kenya thus inherited the shares.

Tea remains the primary cash crop for Sasini though coffee is a huge % too... almost 500mn in coffee revenues...

Stop lying to us... 12,000 tonnes/hour (as you claim) is enough capacity (even if only operated for 1,000 hours/year) to process ALL of Kenya's coffee production!

12,000 tonnes x 1,000 hours = 12,000,000 tonnes
[Kwani, Sasini plans to process Vietnamese coffee too?]

Kenya's total ANNUAL coffee production in 2009 was is 45,000-50,000 tonnes. Even if you add Uganda & Rwanda... it does not exceed 200,000 tonnes.

Add Ethiopia, Tanzania & you are still not at 500,000 tonnes...

So if your claim is correct then SELL sasini coz the massive investment in a 12,000 tonne/hour mill will be a WHITE ELEPHANT...

Calm yourself. Material ref: Daily Nation Friday Feb 26, 2010 Page 28.

@VVS, get the bigger picture... If Sasini has doubled its processing capacity (to whatever figure) at a time of high coffee prices, that is a great thing whichever way you try and discredit it. lol