<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Osiakwan</b> <<a href="mailto:eric@afrispa.org">eric@afrispa.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">Was African Lakes on NSE as well or only on LSE?<div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Yeah.<br>African Lakes was cross-listed at the NSE in March 2000 and was branded as the first Kenyan IPO but did not live to expectations.
<br>The company issued 4 million shares at Kshs 94.50 each and as a result secured a secondary listing in the NSE. See <a href="http://www.nse.co.ke/History.htm">http://www.nse.co.ke/History.htm</a><br><br>The company then tried raising extra equity but that did not stop its demise leaving the 'technology companies' seriously contemplating the next direction to take in the stock market. See Issue No. 157 on balancing act.
<a href="http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/back/balancing-act_157.html">http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/back/balancing-act_157.html</a><br><br>We now have Safaricom, Telkom (K) and Wananchi having indicated to test the waters soon.
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