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Six decades of soft touch in cotton products
African Cotton MD Khalil Anjarwalla and an employee display their Tena serviettes at their factory in Mlolongo on Mombasa Road. PHOTO | STELLAR MURUMBA
Sixty years ago, a budding entrepreneur named Anjarwalla bought a Mombasa-based cotton processing firm at an auction from a British colonial family that was leaving the country.
The company, Absorbent Cotton, was soon after renamed African Cotton, a name that may not stand out to users its cotton-based products under the brand names like Tena, Flora, Medicott, Dove or Tendercare.
