Bus bodies builder Labh Singh falls as Sh1bn KCB loan bites

Assembling of a bus goes on at a assembly plant in Miritini, Mombasa County on June 29, 2022. LSHS joins a growing number of companies that have gone into administration in recent months over financial upheaval.

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Kenya’s oldest and one of the largest truck, coach and bus body builders, Labh Singh Harnam Singh Limited (LSHS), has been placed under administration over a Sh1 billion bank debt, joining a growing chain of corporates that have suffered a similar fate in a tough economy.

Administration is a process through which a third party - an administrator - is appointed to take over the affairs of a company in distress to improve its financial situation for the benefit of its creditors or auction its assets as a last resort to protect the interest of creditors.

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