Rakesh Rao: What’s life without marriage?
Friday April 16 2021
Rakesh Rao, Crown Paints Kenya Group CEO during the interview at the Nairobi Serena Hotel on April 14. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG
By JACKSON BIKO
Summary
Mr Rao is the Group CEO of Crown Paints, a company that was established in 1958 and currently has 1,000 staff members scattered in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.
He has been the CEO for the past 15 years and has had a decent run; Crown Paint is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, and it sells over three million litres of paint in a year.
Rakesh Rao discourages you from wearing black. It’s an “unhappy” colour, he says. He talks about ‘colour energy’ and ‘colour therapy’ with relish, how colour affects how people interact with us but also how it changes how we think and feel. He likes blue because blue is the colour of water and water makes everybody happy, he says. “Think of showers and the sea and waterfalls. Water is blue.”
Alan and Doris Tugwell
Alan Tugwell died the day after the funeral of his wife Doris. ALAN Tugwell, widower of Doris Tugwell, died on February 20, aged 77, with dementia. He was born and lived in Orford. Mr Tugwell spent his working life as a telephone engineer with British Telecom. Alan was a lifelong Manchester United fan and was a keen fisherman for a number of years. He enjoyed holidaying in North Wales with his family. Alan was an officer in the Boys Brigade for more than 25 years firstly at Wycliffe United Reform Church in Bewsey then at St Andrew’s Church in Orford.
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by Alistair Hardaker
Crown Paints has appointed independent Leeds agency CreativeRace following a multi-agency pitch in 2020.
The agency will support Crown with their future plans by leading their retail strategy and store design projects, starting imminently.
Speaking of their latest client, CreativeRace CEO Rob Shaw commented “We look forward to leveraging CreativeRace’s extensive experience in retail brand design and strategy to deliver some inspiring projects that will really captivate their audience.“
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