A couple of things you are waking up to this morning:
1. Supermarkets are losing goods worth billions of shillings to shoplifters annually.- Daily Nation
2. National Carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) has begun a retrenchment exercise that will cover both unionisable and non-unionisable staff, during the month of August.- Capital Business
3. Kenya’s first international syndicated loan attracted 13 lenders from the region and around the globe in which the government raised Sh50 billion ($600 million). – Daily Nation
4. Creating jobs and tackling corruption are the two most important challenges that Kenyans want their government to address in the run-up to elections next March, according to a Gallup public opinion poll released on Thursday. – Reuters
5. Kenya cbank seeks to absorb $36 million via repos – Reuters
6. Unredeemed ‘Bonga points’ take up Sh2.45bn of revenues – Business Daily
7. Three Coca-Cola bottlers are set to merge seven years after a similar number consolidated into the Embakasi-based Nairobi Bottlers Ltd (NBL). – Business Daily
8. The Youth Enterprise Fund has rejected a move by Parliament to restrict the channels for lending its money to three banks in which the government has significant interests. – Business Daily