Former long-serving Eveready East Africa chief executive officer (CEO) Steven George Smith, who died this week, waged a memorable and relentless battle against counterfeiters and the dumping of cheap batteries from Asia in the Kenyan market.
Smith is also remembered for a transformative business eye that saw Eveready lift from a single product producer and dealer, into a distributor of more than 100 items under popular brand names Energizer, Schink, and Eveready and publicly listed on the present Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
