About Afrikiko:
Afrikiko was founded in the year 1996 by four young Kenyan and German students, with the primaryobjective of promoting new, innovative Kenyan deco products in the international market.
The following aspects were particularly important to us:
- Creation of long-term partnerships and fair business relations to our producers, customers and
- Promotion of the rural development in
- Initiation of social security systems (e.g. health insurance, savings accounts )
In order to achieve these goals, the company has continuously made enhancements and improvements inthe following fields:
- Product design: Afrikiko has made innovative enhancement of individual product groups thuscoming up with refreshingly contemporary
- Colors: We carried out intensive research to come up with dyes that are compatible withour product
- Packaging: Afrikiko has designed packaging materials for our product range making it possibleto offer custom packaging and labelling to our
- Quality: A lot of effort has been put into ensuring a high and sustainable quality level for all our
In order to secure the quality standard, Afrikiko pays its producers on average up to 30% above theprevailing local market prices. Besides we grant interest-free loans to our producers so that they canimprove their workshops and their working environments.
To date Afrikiko has 9 permanently employed members of staff in Tabaka and Nairobi specializing inproduction and logistics. Afrikiko has around 200 - 300 producers and suppliers spread around Kenya(and indeed around the world as we source some components e.g. dyes and pigments, key rings,sandpaper etc. from Europe and Asia).
Our sales and marketing team in Berlin, Germany is made up of only 2 permanent employees. This teamspecializes in customer relations management and is the link between the Kenyan team and thecustomer.
Afrikiko is a member of KEFAT, the Kenyan chapter of the WFTO.
We are very proud of the fact that Afrikiko has made great achievements without any support fromdonations or any kind of grants from NGOs or governments.
The success of Afrikiko is based purely on the appealing nature of our product variety and quality, thepricing structure, the reliable supply chain and the excellent customer and supplier relations management.
If you still have a need for more information about Afrikiko please feel free to drop us a call or email andwe will be very glad to tell you more about the success story “Afrikiko”.
