Hennessy Sees Kenya as Growth Frontier as Cognac Sales Start

Hennessy Sees Kenya as Growth Frontier as Cognac Sales Start

NAIROBI (Capital Markets in Africa) Hennessy, the world’s largest maker of cognac, has started distributing its products in Kenya to tap Africa’s second-largest luxury-goods market. The company, a unit of Paris-based LVMH, began distributing its products in the Kenyan capital in May and plans to use the city as a hub for regional distribution, Chief Executive Officer Bernard Peillon said in an interview in Nairobi. A bottle of Hennessy cognac retails for as much as 117,000…

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