Late Kenyan tobacco tycoon Wilfred Murungi's Mastermind assets cleared for sale
Kenya's competition regulator has cleared Signature Leaf to buy assets of Mastermind Tobacco, the cigarette maker built by the late Wilfred Murungi.
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Kenyan tycoon Wilfred Murungi's Mastermind Tobacco collapsed five years after his death
Wilfred Murungi founded Mastermind Tobacco in 1987 and built Kenya's second-largest cigarette maker. Its assets went under the hammer in 2025.
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