Subscribe | Sign In | Subscribe

Small and Medium Enterprises

Men operating welding machinery

Small businesses in Africa to be hit hardest by climate change

Climate change events like droughts are only going to get worse in Africa – and urban centres, where many small businesses thrive, will be in the eye of the storm
A group photo at an event

Stanbic business incubator graduates 420

420 entrepreneurs from 119 small and medium enterprises participated in the incubator's entrepreneurship development program focused on getting their companies to desired standards in the oil and gas industry

Kasekende says bulk of start-up finance should be mobilised by owners

Keynote address by Louis Kasekende (PhD), Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda at the Stanbic Bank Enterprise Conference 05 April 2018 The CEO of Stanbic Bank Uganda, all captains of industry, and all entrepreneurs in the room, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Let me start by thanking the CEO of Stanbic Bank Uganda Ltd for inviting
Clothes stalls in downtown Kampala

Taking stock of Uganda’s economy 55 years after independence

Uganda's economy has seen many changes in the past 55 year, affected by periods of political instability, civil war, fluctuating global commodity prices, and various economic reforms. Trends in recent years are positive, but key challenges remain

Twelve Uganda-based firms in LSE’s ‘Companies to Inspire Africa’ report

A report by the London Stock Exchange Group on Africa's most "inspirational and dynamic" small and medium-sized enterprises names 12 Ugandan companies among the 343 nominated companies.

No value for money realised from Mbarara Industrial Park — Parliament

A parliamentary committee has questioned the return of investment on Mbarara Industrial Park, finding that the park’s management failed to collect rent dues from some tenants and to evict the defaulting entities.

More Small and Medium Enterprises