Kenya Vehicle Manufacturers
The Kenya Vehicle Manufacturers Limited ( KVM ) is an automotive and commercial vehicle manufacturers with headquarters in Thika , Kenya .
history
Leyland Kenya Limited has been producing individual vehicles from SKD kits since 1962 . In 1974, the company CMC acquired a 33% stake in Leyland Kenya.
Assembly production started in Thika in 1976.
In 1989 the company was renamed Kenya Vehicle Manufacturers after the entry of a new investor .
The vehicle brands produced include Nissan, Mazda, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz and Iveco. In 1992, Suzuki, Leyland DAF and Mitsubishi were also named.
The Volkswagen Polo has been assembled at KVM under the model name Vivo since December 2016 .
The current shareholders are the Kenyan government (35.0%), CMC Holdings (32.5%) and DT Dobie & Co (K) Ltd (32.5%).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Murage, Zacharia Nganga: The vehicle assembly industry in Kenya: An evaluation economic , Nairobi 1,983th
- ↑ History ( memento from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the CMC Motors Group website.
- ↑ Mburu Nyotta, Bernard Ngugi, The relationship between Working Capital Management and Financial Performance of Automotive Companies in Kenya , Nairobi 2014.
- ↑ a b KVM and Sigma Motors ( Memento from July 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Richard Ouma-Onyango, Information Resources and Technology Transfer Management in Developing Countries , London 1997.
- ↑ United Nations Industrial Development Organization: Report on the automotive spare parts and components industry in Zimbabwe and other PTA countries. September 1992, accessed February 9, 2019 .
- ↑ VW builds Polo in Kenya. December 9, 2016, accessed December 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Information on the KVM website .