Centum Investment
| Public Limited Company | |
| Traded as |
KN: USE:CENT |
| Industry | Investments |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Headquarters | Nairobi, Kenya |
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Key people
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| Products | Equity Ownerships, Real Estate Development |
| Revenue |
 Aftertax:US$99.6 million (KES:9.9 billion) (FY:2015/2016) |
| Total assets | US$518.12+ million (KES:51.5 billion) (March 2016) |
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Number of employees
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90 (2015) |
| Website | www |
Centum Investments, commonly known as Centum is a public East African investment company. It operates as an affiliate of the Kenyan government-owned Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC).
Centum is a publicly owned investment company with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Its shares are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), where they trade under the symbol: ICDC. The company shares are also cross-listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE), where they trade under the symbol: CENT. As of March 2016[update], total assets were valued at about US$518.2 million (KES:51.5 billion).
ICDC was founded in 1954 as a government parastatal, whose primary objective was to provide a vehicle for Kenyans to invest in the economy of newly independent Kenya by investing in Kenyan companies. In 1967, ICDC formed the subsidiary ICDC Investment Company Limited, whose shares were listed on the NSE.
In 1998, with the Government of Kenya having sold some of its majority shareholding, ICDC Investment Company adopted a new management structure, handing over day-to-day management to an independent professional managerial team, supervised by an independent board of directors elected by the shareholders.
In 2007, the shareholders changed the name of the company to Centum Investment Company Limited. The shares of Centum Investment Company Limited have been publicly traded on the NSE since 1967 and on the USE since 10 February 2011. Plans are underway to crosslist the company stock on the and on the .
Centum's investments are organised into three divisions:
This division invests in publicly traded companies in various stock exchanges on the African continent. This segment represents 19% of Centum’s portfolio value. These include:
This division acquires equity positions in non-publicly-traded companies, mainly in the African Great Lakes region, but increasingly in other parts of the continent as well. Per its March 2014 annual report, these included:
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