May is the company mid-year that coincides with D&S's founding in 1946, now 78 years ago! Very few companies anywhere achieve this longevity, especially under the same family ownership and Founders Day is duly celebrated Group-wide to celebrate the occasion. In Kenya the event also marked groundbreaking at the new Tatu Engineering Centre, the Group's priority project that will provide the resource base for our ever expanding engineering and technical activities.
Edward Davis, Managing Director of Davis & Shirliff Kenya, handing over a donation of water purification plants to Cristina Boelcke Croze, Vice Chair, Friends of Karura. The plants will be installed, also courtesy of Davis and Shirtliff, at all our gates and picnic sites to provide clean drinking water for our visitors.
D&S FLO, the original smartphone application from D&S has recently been awarded a gold medal for its v.3 edition at the recently staged e-Commerce awards. Developed by Digital Business Manager Ken Muturi and Peter Wamalwa, the App was praised for its creativity and seamless customer interface.
The D&S Group, in order to bring its range of products and solutions closer to customers in the region, has recently opened new branches in Migori (Western Kenya), Limuru Town (Central Kenya), Mombasa Island (Coast Region) and Leopard's Hill, a prosperous suburb of Lusaka, Zambia. This brings the total number of branches groupwide to over 100.
Access to flexible credit for consumers and businesses is a key driver of economic growth and several options have recently been made available at D&S for partners in need of financing. For smallholder farmers the Daylipa Paygo platform has been launched to offer solar powered pumps on a pay-as-you-go basis and Daylipa Haba, a save to purchase digital service is also now live.
The Dayliff DCOM range are superior quality consumer grade reciprocating type compressors ideal for general purpose compressed air applications including for garages, pneumatic tool operation, spray booths, sandblasting and many more. Available in both petrol and electricpowered options, Dayliff DCOM are robust and efficient compressors suitable for all light duty compressed air uses.
I write this in the middle of another rainstorm, many parts of the region already having had the average rainfall for a year causing extensive damage and disruption. Water is life and we at D&S have spent our entire existence providing water solutions but in excess it is extremely destructive and many have lost their houses and often livelihoods.