Sasini Tea

Sasini Tea is the tea brand of Sasini PLC, a Kenyan agribusiness group whose history dates to 1952, when it was incorporated as Doondu Estates Ltd with a coffee farm in the Kiambu District of the then Kenya Colony. Over the decades the company expanded into multiple agricultural lines, and today Sasini PLC describes itself as the largest agribusiness in Kenya. Its principal activities include the growing and processing of tea, coffee, avocado and macadamia nuts, along with value addition of related products for local retail and export markets. Tea is one of the group's foundational crops, grown on estates such as Kipkebe, and supported by tea warehousing facilities in the port town of Mombasa. Sasini PLC is a publicly quoted company listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange with over 6,000 shareholders, the majority of whom are Kenyans. The company presents itself as "Deeply Rooted in Sustainable Agribusiness," acknowledging that its sustained business success depends on nesting the business harmoniously with society and the environment in which it operates. Its corporate communications highlight community and sustainability initiatives around its estates, including water access in Sotik, education support such as Magura High School, clean energy, gender equality and life on land. As a tea brand, Sasini Tea represents the group's tea-growing and processing operations, which supply both domestic Kenyan retail and international export markets. The brand sits within a diversified portfolio that also includes coffee brewed in Kiambu and Hass avocados, but tea remains one of the products most closely associated with the Sasini name. The company's integrated model spans estate cultivation, processing, value addition and warehousing, giving the Sasini Tea brand a presence from farm to port.

Sasini PLC's history began in 1952, in what was then known as the Kenya Colony, eleven years before Kenya's independence from British colonial rule in 1963. At the time, the company was originally incorporated as Doondu Estates Ltd, with one coffee farm in the Central highlands of Kenya in what was then Kiambu District (now Kiambu County). Recognizing that growth was the only option, the young coffee-growing company acquired three more coffee farms in the same vicinity of Kiambu District in 1959. Growth demanded changes in the company's financial sourcing options, and in response the company continued to evolve its structure. Over the following decades, Sasini expanded beyond coffee into a diversified agribusiness. Tea became one of its principal crops, grown and processed on estates such as Kipkebe. The company also moved into avocado and macadamia nuts, and developed value-addition capabilities for related products serving both local retail and export markets. It established tea warehousing facilities in the port town of Mombasa, supporting export logistics. Today Sasini PLC is a publicly quoted company listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange with over 6,000 shareholders, the majority of whom are Kenyans. Its principal activities straddle the breadth of Kenya and include the growing and processing of tea, coffee, avocado and macadamia nuts, plus value addition of related products. The company describes itself as the largest agribusiness in Kenya and frames its strategy around sustainability, community development and responsible resource use, with initiatives touching water access, education, clean energy, gender equality and life on land.

• 1963

  Kenya gains independence from British colonial rule.

• 1959

  Acquired three more coffee farms in the same vicinity of Kiambu District.

• 1952

  Incorporated as Doondu Estates Ltd with one coffee farm in Kiambu District, Kenya Colony.

Deeply Rooted in Sustainable Agribusiness; a large-scale Kenyan agribusiness producing tea and other crops for local and export markets.

• Tea

  Grown and processed on estates such as Kipkebe; supplied to local and export markets.

• Coffee

  Brewed in Kiambu; one of the group's original crops.

• Avocado

  Nutritious Hass avocados exported to international markets.

• Macadamia nuts

  Grown and processed as part of the diversified agribusiness portfolio.

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