Top 100 Taxpayers
Company profile: Umeme Limited
Umeme Limited is the main electricity distribution company in Uganda operating on a 20-year electricity concession from the Government of Uganda effective 1st March 2005
Company profile: Cipla Quality Chemicals Industries Ltd
The drugmaker was established in 2005 as a joint venture between Cipla Limited and Ugandan businessmen. In a government-brokered partnership, Cipla Ltd - one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers - joined with a local firm, Quality Chemicals Ltd (QCL), to manufacture antiretroviral and antimalarial drugs locally.
Company profile: Sadolin Paints (U) Ltd
Sadolin Paints Uganda established in 1963, and currently has more than 50% of the local market share. In 2017, Japan's Kansai Paints acquired the company in a deal that was said to be the biggest corporate acquisition in East Africa.
Company profile: Dfcu Group & Dfcu Bank
Dfcu became a commercial bank in 2000 after taking over and renaming Gold Trust Bank. But it had operated in Uganda since 1964, when it was set up by the Uganda government and the UK's Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC).
Company profile: Tororo Cement Ltd
Tororo Cement Ltd manufactures and distributes cement and other materials used in construction. It is one of Uganda's largest industries, manufacturing about 1.8 million metric tonnes of cement per annum.
Company profile: Uganda Breweries Ltd
Uganda Breweries Ltd is a beverage company. It is one of Uganda's largest breweries, manufacturing beers, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages. It owns and markets a number of beers such as Bell Lager, Senator Lager, Pilsner Lager, Ngule, Tusker Lager, Tusker Lite, Tusker Malt Lager, Guinness.
Top 100 Taxpayers: Total E&P Uganda
Total E&P Uganda is an oil and gas exploration and production company, founded in 2010 as the operator of Exploration Areas 1 and 1A following the discovery of commercially viable oil resources in the Albertine Region.
Top 100 Taxpayers: Nile Breweries Ltd
Nile Breweries Limited is a beverage company, and one of the largest beer manufacturers in Uganda. It invested $29 million at its Jinja plant to increase capacity in 2009, and opened a second brewery in Mbarara four years later that was expected to double capacity; the plant was constructed at a cost of $91 million.