Kenyan dairy buys into Ethiopian market with new plant

Brookside Dairy, the largest Kenyan milk processing and marketing company, is looking into buying a 20 per cent shareholding in Elemtu Milk Integrated Industry (Elemtu Milk) of Ethiopia. According to Addis Fortune, the largest English weekly paper in Ethiopia, Brookside Dairy signed a memorandum of understanding over the summer with Elemtu.

The two companies have been building a dairy plant in the country, which should begin operations this month. It is located 25km north of Addis Ababa and Elemtu will also use the land for other purposes including production of meat, eggs and other food products. Brookside Dairy has a processing capacity of 750,000 litres per day, collecting some 95 per cent of its milk from smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya.