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Twiga Foods Limited
Twiga Foods is a Kenyan technology company that sources fresh produce and packaged food from farmers and delivers it to small shops and vendors in cities.
Twiga Foods is a Kenyan company that buys food from farmers and delivers it to the tiny shops and street vendors who feed most African cities. It is a bridge between the countryside and the corner store.
The problem it solves is messy. A small kiosk owner in Nairobi needs bananas, tomatoes, and onions to sell each day, but buying directly from farmers is hard: the produce arrives in inconsistent quality, the prices bounce around, and transport is a headache. Twiga buys in bulk from farmers, sorts and packages the food at its own collection and distribution centers, and trucks it to vendors. Vendors order through Twiga's app, usually the night before, and receive a predictable, standardized box of goods. Twiga makes money on the spread between what it pays farmers and what it charges vendors, plus fees on the packaged goods it distributes. Its customers are the thousands of small informal retailers that make up most of Africa's grocery trade, not big supermarkets.
The business is ambitious and has had a rough ride. It has raised significant venture funding and expanded into packaged food distribution, but it has also faced reports of layoffs, executive departures, and restructuring as it fought to make the numbers work. Running a food supply chain at low margins is brutally hard, and Twiga's biggest challenge is proving it can grow without burning more cash than it brings in.
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