Mbogo Valley Tea Factory

What is established and what is not

No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 1 official record from 1 official source is on file. 5 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.

Facts on file, each with its evidence type

• Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-04. Domain registry record
• No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-04. OpenSanctions
• Mentioned in independent media (record type: media-mention) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The press has written about it. A fact, not an endorsement. effective since 2023-12-18. businesstoday.co.ke
• No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-04. OpenSanctions
• Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-08-04. Mail server of the company domain
• Certified to a national standard (record type: standards-mark-certified) [official record; status green] KEBS Standardisation Mark (S-Mark): MBOGO TEA, MBOGO VALLEY, MBOGOVALE TANGAWIZI TEA, valid until 2027-06-27.. A standards or certification body lists certified products under this company's name. The holder of a mark is not always the factory that makes the goods. effective since 2025-06-27. Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), register of products with Standardisation Mark permits

Import rules for these goods

• EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
• US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA

Goods family established: المأكولات المتخصصة والذواقة (the company's own text). The exact product, operation and trade route needed to determine a product-specific requirement are not established here. Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog categories المشروبات, المؤن والبضائع الجافة: no record or company text names goods of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.

Check independently

Before a first order, ask for the legal entity's registration number and country, then check it in the official register.

• Sanctions and watchlists (OpenSanctions)