Nizwa karanja biography of williams county

Tabitha Karanja whose full name is Tabitha Mukami Muigai Karanja is a Kenyan entrepreneur, businesswoman and industrialist.

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Tabitha is the founder and current CEO of Keroche Breweries, the largest brewery in Kenya owned by a non multinational company. She was born in Kijabe, central Kenya and after attending Kenyan schools, she got employed in the Ministry of Tourism as an Accounting Clerk. She met and got married to husband who owned a successful hardware store in Naivasha town.

The couple closed the hardware store and went into the wine-making business in She got married to Joseph Muigai Karanja after the two met in Naivasha town where he owned a successful hardware store. They later closed the hardware store and went into the wine-making business in As a hardworking businesswoman, she is the CEO of a multi-million Keroche Breweries making her to have a net worth of over Kshs.

This was also followed tax evasion scandal that occurred recently where she was accused by the KRA that her company had evaded tax payment of upto Kshs. Kenyan director of public prosecution Noordin Haji issued her arrest warrant.

INTERROGATION INTO THE DEFENCE OF A 'PROBLEM – CENTRIC'.

She tried to rubbish the claims by connecting with unfair competitors of her company but she was unlucky. The KRA won the case in court, making her to come up with arrangements on settling the arrears. Early , Tabitha and Joseph started making fortified wine, targeting the lower end of the market. When the government enacted heavy taxes on locally made wines in , her product was priced out of the market and she switched to manufacturing ready to drink gin and vodka, which her state of the art factory still makes till now.

The factory began expansion plans to increase beer production from 60, bottles per day to , bottles per day in