Tabitha karanja biography

Kenyan businesswoman (born 1964)

Tabitha Mukami Muigai Karanja is a Kenyanbusinesswoman, entrepreneur, industrialist and Nakuru County Senator.

She is the founder and current chief executive officer of Keroche Breweries, the first large brewery in Kenya owned by a non-multinational company. Keroche Breweries accounts for 20% of Kenya's beer consumption, as of October 2012.^[1]

Early life and education

Tabitha was born near Kijabe, in central Kenya.

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After attending Kenyan schools, she took up employment in the Ministry of Tourism as an Accounting Clerk. She met and married her husband, who owned a successful hardware store in Naivasha town. In 1997, the couple closed the hardware store and went into the wine-making business.^[2]

Career

Beginning in 1997, Tabitha Karanja and her husband started making fortified wine, targeting the lower end of the market.

In 2007, when the government enacted heavy taxes on locally made wines, her product