SPELLMAN BRADY & COMPANY COMPLETES FURNITURE PACKAGE FOR WEBSTER UNIVERSITY’S GHANA CAMPUS
Spellman Brady & Company provided the furniture package for Webster University’s new Ghana campus in Accra, Ghana. Accra is the capital of Ghana, a major hub in West Africa and one of the fastest-growing cities in Africa.
The fast-track delivery of the furniture was critical in order for the University to be guaranteed a license by the Ghana Ministry of Higher Education in time for a spring semester opening. Equally important for the campus was brand consistency with Webster University’s educational classroom standards used on the St. Louis and its extended campuses.
To meet both of these challenges, Spellman Brady & Company specified furniture from an existing furniture inventory in Elgin, IL that matched the University’s standards.
Kenya firms dominate Africa travel awards
Kenyan companies dominated this year’s Africa World Travel Awards held on Wednesday, raising the profile of the country as the region’s tourist hot spot.
Serena Hotel Group, Kenya Tourism Board, Kenya Airways and Maasai Mara were some of the companies that were feted in the glamorous evening event held in Nairobi.
The awards dubbed ‘The Oscars of the travel industry’ attracted 100 players in the hospitality industry and emerged at a time when Kenya’s tourism sector is battling challenges including security in the wake of the Westgate terror attack.
The sector is also reeling from introduction of a value added or sales tax last month that sent retail price of various items higher and players warn it could affect their prospects.
Furniture maker showroom scores world-first certification
A furniture manufacturer has captured the first worldwide environmental building recognition of its kind, and the company did it in one of the fastest-growing markets on the globe.
Holland-based Haworth, a global maker and seller of office furniture, has earned the planet’s first LEED-certified designation under the U.S. Green Building Council’s new version 4 beta program, the latest standard that USGBC unveiled in July.
The company gained the exclusive LEED Gold rating for its showroom in the Parkview Green building in Beijing.
Kenya's market regulator set to license futures exchange operators
Kenya is processing applications for licences to operate derivatives exchanges from both local and foreign firms, the capital markets regulator said on Tuesday, as Nairobi inches towards its goal of becoming an international financial centre.
Paul Muthaura, acting chief executive of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), told Reuters after a media briefing that such exchanges were vital to that plan, but he did not say when operators would be chosen nor when exchanges would open.
