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Companies

BAT Uganda profits rise sharply on lower operating costs

February 12, 2021

British American Tobacco Uganda reported its strongest growth in profits in three years as cost-cutting measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic more than made up for the hit to cigarette sales

Companies

  • BAT Uganda profits rise sharply on lower operating costs
    February 12, 2021
  • CIPLA Quality Chemicals Offices
    Cipla Quality Chemicals posts loss as exports decline
    June 12, 2020
  • A female person using a smart phone
    Airtel, MTN bring back fees for mobile money transactions
    May 26, 2020
  • A Standard Bank branch in Jinja
    Standard Chartered reports strongest profits since 2016
    May 24, 2020
  • An office of Absa Bank in Johannesburg
    Absa profits rebound on lending income boost
    May 23, 2020
  • Offices of the Monitor Publications Limited in Namuwongo
    Monitor Publications cuts pay as Vision Group lays off staff
    May 16, 2020

Economy

  • An industrial storage area
    Uganda private sector activity drops the most since June – survey
    February 3, 2021
  • An industrial storage area
    Private sector contraction slows, PMI shows
    July 3, 2020
  • World Bank agrees $300m coronavirus loan to Uganda
    June 30, 2020
  • Market vendors in Uganda wearing masks to protect against Covid-19 coronavirus
    Rise in consumer prices moderates in May
    May 29, 2020
  • Coffee Beans in Jute
    Little coronavirus effect on demand for Uganda’s coffee
    May 22, 2020
  • Containers at Mombasa Port in Kenya
    Goods imports, exports fall to record lows
    May 18, 2020

Financials

  • Higher finance costs and flat earnings dim Umeme’s profit

  • Shocks ahead for Uganda electricity users as rule change jolts Umeme 2017 profit

  • MTN Offices in Kampala

    MTN posts first loss in 20 years

  • Uganda Clays revenue rises but profit falls on higher costs

  • MTN Offices in Kampala

    Data adds to MTN Uganda profit as voice calls slow

  • Umeme HY2016 profit falls to Shs54.5bn on financing costs

  • An industrial storage area
    Uganda private sector activity drops the most since June – survey
    February 3, 2021
  • A largely empty street on Namirembe Road, Kampala
    ‘Scientific’ election looks likely to benefit incumbent
    September 9, 2020
  • An industrial storage area
    Private sector contraction slows, PMI shows
    July 3, 2020
  • World Bank agrees $300m coronavirus loan to Uganda
    June 30, 2020
  • CIPLA Quality Chemicals Offices
    Cipla Quality Chemicals posts loss as exports decline
    June 12, 2020
  • Downtown Kampala
    Visibility study of Kampala, Nairobi, and Addis Ababa reveals big air pollution problems
    June 5, 2020

Markets

  • BAT Uganda profits rise sharply on lower operating costs
    February 12, 2021
  • CIPLA Quality Chemicals Offices
    Cipla Quality Chemicals posts loss as exports decline
    June 12, 2020
  • Antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV infection
    Cipla Quality Chemicals faces loss on Zambia debt
    May 7, 2020
  • An office tower in Kampala
    Coronavirus: NIC Holdings postpones results
    May 6, 2020
  • Main entrance at the Uganda Securities Exchange
    Coronavirus causes companies to postpone AGMs, dividend payments
    May 6, 2020

Press releases and company notices

  • Prudential Uganda donates Shs300m in Covid-19 food relief
    May 25, 2020
  • Smart Girls Uganda in partnership to give out free masks to vulnerable women
    May 12, 2020
  • Total boosts government efforts to fight the coronavirus in Uganda
    April 10, 2020
  • Stanbic Uganda offers loan holidays to clients affected by the Covid-19 coronavirus
    April 9, 2020
  • Coronavirus update: Confirmed cases still at 52
    April 7, 2020
  • Second national content conference: minister roots for local suppliers in oil and gas sector
    March 19, 2020
  • Mastercard research finds Pay on Demand solutions are driving a new wave of digital and financial inclusion across Africa through connectivity
    March 3, 2020

Highlights

  • Taxi park in Kampala
    Economy

    Communication taxes and old car ban push up August inflation

  • Bujagali Hydropower dam
    Politics & Policy

    The PPP Concerto

  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Cameroon's President Paul Biya at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., on August 6, 2014
    Opinion

    Colonial rule is to blame for the failure of democracy in Africa

  • Real Estate

    Shoprite to open a fourth store at Victoria Mall

  • Students in an introductory programming class at Outbox, an incubator, innovation lab and co-working space in Kampala
    Opinion

    Digitisation and entrepreneurship will propel African industrialisation, defying naysayers

Politics & Policy

  • An industrial storage area
    Uganda private sector activity drops the most since June – survey
    February 3, 2021
  • Imvepi refugee settlement in Arua District
    Why Uganda has suspended hundreds of refugee aid agencies
    September 13, 2020
  • A largely empty street on Namirembe Road, Kampala
    ‘Scientific’ election looks likely to benefit incumbent
    September 9, 2020
  • World Bank agrees $300m coronavirus loan to Uganda
    June 30, 2020
  • Congolese refugees queuing up for aid in Bundibugyo district, Uganda
    How to protect refugees in a pandemic: Lessons from Uganda
    May 27, 2020

Energy, Oil & Gas

  • Uganda's energy minister, Mary Goretti Kituttu and Total's Nicolas Terraz signing the oil pipeline host government agreement
    Government and Total sign key oil pipeline agreement
    September 11, 2020
  • Kyehoro Camp operated by Tullow in Uganda
    Tullow Oil shareholders approve Uganda farmdown deal
    July 15, 2020
  • A Tullow oil field in Ghana
    Cnooc opts out of Tullow-Total deal
    May 28, 2020
  • Group photo of the board of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda
    Petroleum Authority names new board
    May 15, 2020
  • A drilling rig at the Kingfisher field in Western Uganda
    Industry experts see Total-Tullow deal a win-win boost
    April 30, 2020

Real Estate

  • Apartment blocks in Nalya Housing Estate, Kampala
    Rents are down in Kampala as supply outruns demand
    February 3, 2020
  • A mall entrance
    Mauritius-based Gateway Delta to invest $20 million to redevelop Metroplex Mall
    June 25, 2019
  • A residential house
    How Stanbic has provided a 360 degree solution to property ownership
    August 28, 2018
  • Why Ugandans should look more to banks for home construction loans
    February 19, 2018
  • The role of banks and developers in creating affordable housing for Ugandans
    October 30, 2017
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