Cooperative Bank, M-Kopa, Quickmart Supermarket and KCB Bank are among 11 Kenyan firms placed on the Financial Times’ Africa’s Fastest-Growing companies.
Others are agricultural producer Victory Farms, manufacturing firm Roam Electric, hospitality group Serena Hotels, and IT companies Impax Business Solutions and Pan African IX Data.
The 2025 list underlines the country’s continued strength as one of the continent’s key business and innovation hubs.
The annual ranking, compiled by the Financial Times in partnership with research firm Statista, tracks companies based on compound annual revenue growth between 2020 and 2023.
For instance, Coop Bank announced its first-ever interim dividend on record of Sh1.00 per share, following a 12.3 per cent increase in 2025’s nine-month profit to Sh21.6 billion after tax.
The dividend declaration accompanied another strong performance for the lender, continuing a decade-long growth trend that has seen profits surge by 150 per cent since 2015, when the bank recorded just Sh8.62 billion in earnings.
Net interest income jumped 22.8 per cent to Sh45.3 billion, forming the bulk of the Sh67.4 billion total operating income.
