{"id":28230,"date":"2016-09-01T02:41:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T02:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-sameer-africa-to-cut-jobs-and-close-factory\/"},"modified":"2016-09-01T02:41:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T02:41:11","slug":"kenya-sameer-africa-to-cut-jobs-and-close-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-sameer-africa-to-cut-jobs-and-close-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Sameer Africa to cut jobs and close factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Listed tyre maker Sameer Africa will cut jobs after a decision to shut down Nairobi factory was reached infavour of tyre imports.}<\/p>\n<p>The company has also issued a profit warning due to expected impairment and employee severance costs. The struggling manufacturer had reduced its local production due to high competition from cheap arrivals and joined the importers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regrettably, cessation of factory operations will result in a number of employees being declared redundant,&#8221; the company noted in a statement to the Nairobi Securities Exchange.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14696 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sam_pic.jpg\" alt=\"Yana brand of tyres from Sameer Africa. Sameer Africa will cut jobs after a decision to shut down Nairobi factory was reached infavour of tyre imports. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Listed tyre maker Sameer Africa will cut jobs after a decision to shut down Nairobi factory was reached infavour of tyre imports.} The company has also issued a profit warning due to expected impairment and employee severance costs. The struggling manufacturer had reduced its local production due to high competition from cheap arrivals and joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}