efficiency has greatly improved service
quality at the gates.
Other Facilities
Additionally, both Reliance Centre in
Westlands and Mega Plaza in Kisumu,
which also houses Nakumatt Kisumu
Branch, have also contracted KAPS to
install access control systems for their
respective tenants.
Parking Management
A lot of new partners have come on
board to subscribe to KAPS Parking
Management Services. Currently, in
Nairobi, plans are underway at both
Nakumatt Cross Road in Karen and MP
Shah Hospital in Westlands for KAPS
to provide both parking management
and security solutions. We have also
continued to make a progressive impact
upcountry and we are now offering new
parking management services to both the
newly-refurbished age-old Imperial Hotel
in Kisumu and Mega Mall in Kakamega,
the latter being a first in the populous
former Western Province Counties.
EVENT TICKETING AND ENTRANCE CONTROL
At KAPS, serving people with a
‘superior gate experience’ is a key
aspect of our stated mission and a
key driver of our business success.
In keeping with this in 2013, we
participated in several key events and
ticketing projects.
The ASK Show: This year, KAPS
partnered with the Agricultural
Society of Kenya, for whom we
ticketed the trade fairs in Nakuru,
Mombasa and Nairobi. In fact, this
was no mean feat, considering the
magnitude of the events and the
mammoth human traffic we managed
during the short periods of activity at
these national landmark events of the
ASK’s annual Calendar.
Soccer: It is said that soccer is like
a poem, you write it with your soul
and heart, but you say it with your
feet. Well, at KAPS, we have walked
the talk of the words of that poem by
ticketing the two crucial FIFA World
Cup Qualifier matches held in Kenya,
Kenya v Nigeria on 5th June and
Kenya v Namibia on 7th September.
The goals came in though our boys did
not get into the next stage of the world
qualifiers. Nevertheless, and despite the
relatively low turnout, the Kenyan soccer
fans, KAPS, FKF, SSMB managed to set
records for the highest collections ever for
a soccer match at a Kenyan stadium.
Ndukatavye Mundu. This rib-tickling play
which performed from 20th November
to 2nd December 2012 at the newly
refurbished Kenya National Theatre, was
a huge success both for the public, the
organizers and KAPS. Laugh Industry is
Transport: It was yet another hats-off
moment for KAPS as we scaled one more
summit to partner with Kenya Railways in
providing fare collection services on their
ultra-modern Nairobi Commuter Service
(NCR) project train services. This project
is one of Kenya’s flagship Vision 2030
projects designed to provide comfortable
and affordable mass transit services and
decongest the highways of Nairobi. KAPS
and NCR have started with the Syokimau
Kenya’s top Entertainment outfit, famous
for producing the televised Churchill
Show. This was yet another rock added
to our Entertainment Ticketing sling.
line, which also includes the Imara Daima,
Makadara and Nairobi Central stations.
Eventually, the system will include several
other lines and a total of 26 stations and
will carry not less than 300,000 commuters
daily. That should really keep Nairobi
moving.
Entertainment: Laughter is the best
medicine. Well, nothing came closer to
this old chestnut than when KAPS was
appointed to offer ticketing for Laugh
Industry’s successful event dubbed
Expansion: KAPS has eventually
penetrated the rich Western Africa
market by partnering with Nigeria’s
leading parking solutions company,
Safe Parking Limited, to provide onstreet parking collections. By entering
this market, which has an estimated
population of 180 million people,
KAPS intends to use this partnership
as leverage towards greater strategic
expansion of its operations into the
larger Western Africa region.
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