AFTER closing up his music and film production label, Candy Records CEO, Joe Kariuki (inset) is now trying his hand in the aviation and mining industries. He recently acquired a light aircraft and opened an operations office at Nairobi’s Wilson Airport, where he is intending to grow his aviation business, christened Candy Air.
“For now I have one aircraft which offers chartered flight services for passengers and cargo around Africa. As we speak the plane is with a client in Chad. The record label didn’t come through the way it had been intended to and that’s why I am diversifying into these other sectors,” he told Word Is on Monday.
He added: “Aviation business is often perceived as an exclusive privilege for the wealthy. Candy Air is here to overturn this misconception.”
Kariuki has also invested in a multi-million mining venture in the Taita Taveta basin. The investment is run by his company, Hard Assets. His imported heavy machinery which is being used for geological excavations of precious metals and stones such as tourmaline, emerald, garnet, ruby and tanzanite, and exporting of the same. He is also about to unveil a ‘Facebook-like’ social media platform called TwinTalk.