Companies
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: 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.
Too big to fail? The 65 firms Ugandan government apparently wants to bail out
The two most indebted firms on the list, which we are republishing, owe Shs201 billion each, while the third most indebted has outstanding loans of Shs120 billion.
Top Taxpayers: Vivo Energy Uganda Ltd
Vivo Energy Uganda is a subsidiary of Vivo Energy Investments BV, which markets and distributes Shell petroleum products in Africa. It launched in Uganda in 2013, taking over Shell's business.