Brown's Food Company
Kenya • Founded: 1979
Commercial Director: Delia Stirling
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David and Sue Brown started Brown's Food in the 1970s as a cheese business and it quickly became a pioneer in the industry. The goal of the company has always been to make “healthy, delicious, and natural foods” in Kenya.
As a second-generation owner, spearheading a well-known food company would come with a lot of pressure, but for Delia Stirling, it's an honor.
“[My parents] started making cheese for themselves, just for the love of it,” Stirling says. “And people started showing up trying to buy the cheese. So, we started essentially because of that love for food… and it's continued very much with that passion and enjoyment of food.”
As a food manufacturer that sources raw ingredients from smallholder farmers and processes them into “nutritious highvalue food products”, each item has a key purpose – to ensure that both sides of the ecosystem, the farmer