Export market · Kenya
Barcode Solutions for export to Kenya
Barcode Solutions supplied into Kenya, alongside the ranges that make up the bulk of our work there.
Barcode Solutions for Kenya
Demand in Kenya is built on food processing, FMCG, agri-inputs and brand protection. FMCG draws on this range, though it sits alongside rather than ahead of the lines listed below. Barcode Solutions are quoted per job for Kenya rather than against a price break, so a smaller run is normal work there.
What decides the specification
With barcode solutions the question is always scan rate on the customer’s own surface, and ribbon matched to facestock. Kenya conditions are manageable, which widens the material choice. The surface still decides the adhesive though — a chilled or oily pack in Kenya needs the same care as anywhere else.
A barcode either verifies to grade or it does not. We would rather adjust the symbol size at artwork stage than argue about scan rates after the run.
When barcode solutions are ordered from Kenya they come in long runs with frequent small variants, the same way the rest of that trade buys. What already moves from our floor to Kenya is food and FMCG labels and agricultural input labels, so a barcode solutions enquiry from Kenya is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva or Mundra to Mombasa is the leg it travels, and a temperate destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Kenya.
Where this sits against Kenya rules
These are consumables rather than labelled products, so the destination’s consumer labelling rules do not apply to them. The regime your importer works to in Kenya is KEBS standardisation mark, Pre-Export Verification of Conformity before shipment, country of origin and metric declarations — and the pack language is English and Kiswahili. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy barcode solutions, but it is what the rest of your Kenya consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Kenya
Nhava Sheva or Mundra to Mombasa — 12 to 16 days. 16 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into Kenya, the usual complaint is not failure but curl at the liner edge, which becomes a storage question once the barcode solutions are off the ship.
In this range
Label stock, thermal ribbons and the printers and scanners that run them — 3 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Kenya
Barcode Solutions elsewhere
All Kenya ranges
Questions
Barcode Solutions in Kenya — questions we are asked
Do you supply barcode solutions in Kenya?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva or Mundra to Mombasa — 12 to 16 days.
What do Kenya customers use barcode solutions for?
FMCG mainly. Food and FMCG labels, agricultural input labels, security holograms, carton and shipper labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for barcode solutions to Kenya?
No fixed minimum for barcode solutions. Kenya consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Kenya run workable. Nhava Sheva or Mundra to Mombasa — 12 to 16 days.
How do Kenya buyers usually order barcode solutions?
In long runs with frequent small variants, which is why the base plate stays on file and only the variable panel changes — that is the pattern across most of our Kenya work in this range. Tell us the quantity and the reorder interval and we will quote the die and the material once, then hold both on file for Kenya repeats.
Tell us what it has to stick to
Send the pack, the quantity and the market it ships to. We come back with a specification, a price and a lead time.