Family Finance yet to get license from CBK, says CEO

Business, Marc 07 (2007)

http://www.timesnews.co.ke/17mar07/business/buns2.html

My very first solo assignment for the Kenya Times business. Monday to Friday the past couple of months, I’ve been to at least one business function a day. To date, this is the most poorly organized one. We had to play detective for almost half an hour to find out which room to go to, tea was there, but they never served us, and the function started one hour late. Afterwards, I had to beg the PR guy to give me the press release in a hard copy, because the internet was down in the KT office. (surprise surprise…)

Ironically, I was one of five journalists in Nairobi to get invited to a dinner (at my favourite hotel) by these guys a few weeks later. They were about to take a big step as a company, and wanted advice on how to get better coverage. So I told them exactly what I thought, and they thanked me afterwards.

Next time I went to cover them, there were posters with directions at the entrance, the function was on time, so was the press release. Most importantly; they insisted on serving tea!