Twenty-one Economic Processing Zones (EPZ) based garment factories are headed to Mombasa for a three-day products sale.

The sale at Visa Oshwal Grounds starting May 5 follows a successful sale at the KICC in Nairobi.

In a public notice, the EPZ said firms will use the occasion to exhaust their 20 per cent local sales window for garments costing between Sh100 and Sh600.

The Mombasa event comes after a month-long sale in Nairobi that attracted thousands of buyers.

The garments are exported to global retail chains such as 1,014-branch JC Penney (US and Puerto Rico), Walmat (US), Kohl’s (U.S), Macy’s (US), Jones New York (US), Dollar General (US) and Ross (US) among others.

Last year, EPZ-based factories earned Sh35.2b billion from finished product exports to Europe, Middle East and the US local. The notice said clothes available include men, ladies and children clothes.

The firms provide about 42,600 jobs.

Source: Business Daily