Out Of The Dust Grow The Roses Of Success
When Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi was looking to start a new business quickly, East Africa beckoned.
He identified Kenya and Ethiopia for cultivating and exporting roses, bought , hectares of land, employed 10, people and today his company, Karuturi Global Ltd, produces around million stems a year and is widely recognized as the pioneer of cut flower production. Almost its entire produce is exported to high-end markets in Europe, where it has 9% of the market, as well as to North America and Asia.
A woman carries a bucket of roses at Roshanara Roses flower farm in Debre Zeit, Oromia, Ethiopia
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“Six years ago I was very dissatisfied with India,” he told FORBES AFRICA from Dar es Salaam, where he was looking for new business.
“Business in India is fragmented and land is expensive. It’s easier to look abroad instead of starting a business from scratch here.”
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Several market studies later, Karuturi chose Kenya and Ethiopia as the most cost-competitive countries in which to grow flowers—and it paid off. For six straight years, the company has grown exponentially by 20% a year.
“Ethiopia has a good workfor
The fall of Karuturi: how the crisis in the rose market is cutting the hopes of millions
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The beggars try to force them on the street. In all the major cities of Europe, the number of makeshift flower stands open day and night continues to grow and over time they become veritable shops. We don&#;t notice it, but as the official rose market, run by leading Dutch wholesalers, grows with the increasing welfare of the western population, a barely noticeable trade has taken shape in the streets that has been for years by an Indian multinational, Karuturi Global, which organizes and controls the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people in an unexpected third world &#; from the thriving highlands of Kenya and Ethiopia to the greenhouses of South America. A market in which Karuturi has speculated unscrupulously.
In the horticultural market, the cut flower market is one of the most important branches of the economy, and its worldwide turnover is estimated at over $ billion per year[1]. The greenhouses, where most flowers are grown, employ millions of workers[2]: Colombia&#;s flower exports, considered to be the best in the world in terms of quality[3], generate inc
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Delhi court denies bail to businessman Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi in USD 5 Million fraud case
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ANI | 8 February
Court dismisses bail plea of businessman accused of cheating Republic of Djibouti with US$ 5 mn
New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): A Delhi court has recently dismissed a bail plea of a businessman accused of cheating the Republic of Djibouti (RoD) of USD 5 million.
The FIR was registered in based on the complaint filed by the Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti (RoD) in India.
The businessman surrendered before the court in terms of the order of the Supreme Court of India.
Kiran Gupta, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) of Patiala House Court, on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi.
“The applicant was given the bank guarantee or loan to the tune of USD million for performing the agricultural activities that he had failed to perform,” ASJ Kiran Gupta said in the order dated February 6,
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