TransCentury Limited

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TransCentury Limited
Company type Public Company
KN: TCL
Industry Investments, Infrastructure
Founded1997
Headquarters
8th Floor
West End Towers
Waiyaki Way
Nairobi [1]
,
Kenya
Area served
 Sub-Saharan Africa
Key people
Shaka Kariuki [2]
Chairman
Ng’ang’a Njiinu
CEO [3]
Products Private equity, infrastructure
RevenueDecrease2.svg:Aftertax KSh.1.983 billion/= (2014)
Total assets KSh.19.464 billion/= (December 2014)
Divisions Power, transport, and engineering
Subsidiaries East African Cables
Tanelec
Kewberg
Cableries du Congo
Avery
Civicon
Website transcentury.co.ke

TransCentury Limited is an infrastructure company whose stock is "listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) with three divisions across 14 countries in East, Central and Southern Africa".

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Location

The company's headquarters are located in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Mauritius, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and South Africa. [4]

Overview

TransCentury is an investment and infrastructure company that has grown from a club of 29 friends [5] worth less than KES 30 million in 1997, to a private equity firm [6] and later listing on the NSE. [7]

As at December 2014, TransCentury's total assets were valued at about KSh.19.464 billion/=, with shareholders' equity valued at approximately KSh.11.482 billion/=. [8] The firm acquired a controlling interest in East African Cables in 2004, Avery in 2005, 34% of Rift Valley Railways in 2006, Tanelec and Kewberg cables in 2007 and Civicon in 2011.

Exited investments include Chai Bora of Tanzania which was acquired in 2008 (it was later sold to Catalyst Principal Partners in 2013 for an undisclosed amount) [9] [10] and a minority stake in Castle Brewery Kenya Limited (an SABMiller subsidiary) which it exited in 2002 when the brewer's parent firm pulled out of the local market [11] after a market truce with EABL. [12] TransCentury exited Rift Valley Railways (RVR) in April 2014 by selling its 34% stake in the Consortium to Citadel Capital of Egypt for an estimated KSh.3.216 billion/= (US$37.8 million). [13] TransCentury first invested in RVR in December 2006 by acquiring a 20% stake in the company and later increased its shareholding to 34% in May 2010. [14]

In June 2014, TransCentury announced that it was going to invest a subs tantial sum from the RVR sale in a 35-megawatts geothermal power plant consortium in Menengai. [15]

Member companies

The companies that comprise the TransCentury Group of companies include, but are not limited, to the following, as at As of 31 December 2016. [16]

Ownership

The shares of the TransCentury are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange under the symbol TCL. As of December 2014, the shareholding of TransCentury was as follows: [8]

TransCentury Stock Ownership
RankName of OwnerPercentage Ownership
1Standard Chartered Nominees A/C Ke1561511.66
2Anne Pearl Karimi Gachui7.58
3Michael Gitau Waweru7.57
4Peter Tiras Kanyago5.59
5Zephaniah Gitau Mbugua4.74
6Ephraim Kariithi Njogu4.47
7Others58.39
Total100.00

Governance

TransCentury is governed by an eight-person Board of Directors with Shaka Kariuki as the chairman and Ng’ang’a Njiinu as the CEO. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Mutegi, Mugambi (4 August 2017). "TransCentury picks Wanjuki Muchemi for directorship amid management purge". Business Daily Africa . Nairobi. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
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  8. 1 2 TCL (March 2015). "TransCentury Annual Report & Financial Statement As At 31 December 2014" (PDF). Nairobi: TrasCentury Limited (TCL). Retrieved 23 March 2016.
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