Time flies with great content! Renew in to keep enjoying all our premium content.
Prime
Which Polo is Polo? Luxury Firm Loses Exclusive Selling Rights
Polo described as a cotton shirt with a collar, a few buttons at the neck, and a short sleeve is marked by a rider on a horse holding a mallet that demonstrates the sport.
In Nairobi’s Gikomba market, a smartly dressed man out of place in the baled lumps of second-hand clothing would probably be lured by the promise of an original polo which could be bargained for as little as Sh400 if your sheng is good enough.
But in the upmarket, polo brands are for the discerning, pricey items whose supply chain shipped some 8,800 units from Europe, the US and South Africa is being fought for viciously in the corridors of courts and intellectual property rights agency.