Time flies with great content! Renew in to keep enjoying all our premium content.
Prime
How Umoja stepped into big shoemakers' league in Kenya
Dilipkumar Shah (Right), the founder of Umoja Rubber Products during the opening of the 25th store on March 30, 2023, at Diamond Plaza, Parklands, in Nairobi, with Ehsannuzzaman, the managing director of Umoja Rubber Products. PHOTO | POOL
Forty-five years ago, when Dilip Shah started Umoja Rubber Products in a tiny space in Mombasa, he was following in his father’s entrepreneurial footsteps.
Now he has grown the business tremendously, to 45 stores scattered around the country, 3,000 employees, and penetrated the African rubber footwear market.
