Type | Public Company KN: TCL |
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Industry | Investments, Infrastructure |
Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Sub-Saharan Africa |
Key people | Shaka Kariuki [2] Chairman Ng’ang’a Njiinu CEO [3] |
Products | Private equity, infrastructure |
Revenue | :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 |
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".
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]
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]
The companies that comprise the TransCentury Group of companies include, but are not limited, to the following, as at As of 31 December 2016 [update] . [16]
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]
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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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