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Mission

We are committed to innovatively and sustainably producing quality tea and providing quality services that meet and exceed the expectations of our customers and stakeholders.

Vision

Karirana Estates Limited aims “To make Eden Tea the preferred tea in East Africa”

Our Core Values

Karirana’s core values are the foundation of our business philosophy and strategy that are woven into every aspect of our corporate life. These are not values that change from time to time, situation to situation or person to person but rather, they are the underpinning nature of our company culture.

Integrity

Doing the right thing is an important component of the Karirana culture. Whatever it takes, we believe in treating all people with dignity, respect and fairness and in following ethical business practices at all times.

Teamwork

At Karirana Estates Limited, we emphasize teamwork and open communication among all individuals and departments in the organization. We value informed risk taking, accountability for actions and recognition for results. We believe in collective responsibility towards a unified corporate purpose.

Customer Focus

At Karirana Estates Limited, we strive to understand and anticipate our customers’ needs and deliver what they truly value. We are committed to developing long-term relationships with our customers, which can be leveraged for mutual benefit.

Continual Improvement "Kaizen"

At Karirana Estates Limited, we believe in initiative and drive. We are committed to getting better every day in all we do as individuals and a team. We strive for excellence by continuously working to innovate and improve our processes, products and services

Community & Social Responsibility

We value the communities in which we operate and play an active role in environmental conservation and in enhancing quality of life. We believe in fair trade practices and engage in sustainable agricultural and good manufacturing practices.

We run our business with precision, just like we make our tea. Tea making is both an art and a science that is dependent on attention to detail and continuous improvement.

We are very deliberate and meticulous in our business practice. We continuously scan the environment and align our strategies to it, always maintaining a competitive edge in the market place by providing high quality tea products to our customers. In addition, we also develop partnerships that can be leveraged to achieve sustainable growth to our shareholders’ wealth and the well-being of other stakeholders.

We aim to process high quality tea through investment in modern state-of-the-art manufacturing systems. We ensure our factory runs efficiently so as to expand capacity in line with production trends.
Our staff constantly drive the process to make our tea the finest, by marrying sustainable agricultural and manufacturing practices to ensure that our quality is always above the rest.

Farm Operations

About 25% of the green leaf supplied to our factory comes from our nucleus estate. This consists of 324Ha of mature tea which ranges from old seedling teas to the modern clonal varieties that contributes to the optimal mix of quality and sustained production.
The art of growing tea has a rich heritage from years of experience where all agronomic activities employed are based on sound research and good husbandry practices that are reviewed periodically to keep up with the emerging technologies. All this is geared towards having productive tables that are plucked throughout the year giving the much needed quality raw material to the factory.

We maintain a highly skilled workforce which does the routine plucking of removing the two top most leaves and a bud where the concentrate of tea is found. After plucking, the leaves are transported to the factory within the shortest time possible to guarantee freshness that enable processing into high quality black CTC tea and orthodox teas.

Besides tea farming, Karirana also cultivates a variety of eucalyptus trees. These are a popular renewable source of energy, which is used in the factory for curing. In line with sustainable agricultural practices, the company maintains over 200 hectares of eucalyptus forest with the aim of being self-reliant in fuel wood supply.

Extension Services

Extension services operations was launched in 1998 to improve out growers’ productivity and support the small scale tea farmers in the neighbourhood.

The operations has over 500 small scale farmers and has greatly enhanced their production in terms of quantity and quality of green leaf through expert advice on crop husbandry and technical support. The Extension services operates a credit scheme for it’s registered out growers’ farmers, which enable them to conveniently access farm inputs at cost.

Karirana Tea Management Services (KTMS)

Karirana Tea management Services (KTMS) Limited, is a subsidiary of Karirana Estates Limited. It was incorporated in year 2000 to provide professional management services to tea farms and tea manufacturing factories within East Africa.. The company’s activities are coordinated from our head office in Karirana Estates, Limuru.

Tea Processing Factory

The factory is the processing centre of Karirana tea. It is here that the necessary processes of manufacturing Black CTC tea, Green Orthodox tea, and Purple Orthodox tea takes place. The processing unit can handle 100 tons of Greenleaf per day. The factory maintains a Food Safety Management System which is ISO 22000:2018 certified. This guarantees our customers a safe and quality product at all times. Due to its high quality, Karirana tea has found favor amongst buyers in all key markets both local and outside Kenya including Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Afghanistan, Sudan, the United States of America, and the Middle East.
The factory has undertaken numerous capacity and efficiency improvement projects over the last ten years. Recently, we installed a grid-tie solar power system to supplement its energy demand. This has greatly reduced the cost of energy.

Our operations guarantees optimal interaction of the three pillars of sustainable agriculture which are social, economic and environmental.

We are committed to creating a fairer, better, more sustainable tea industry for our tea workers, farmers, their communities and the environment.
Our management system is audited and certified in accordance with the international requirements.
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