Petua and Joseline Kateeba: The mother-daughter duo running the Crest Foam empire.

In Uganda’s manufacturing landscape, where few family businesses live to see a second generation, the story of Crest Foam is a rare and remarkable show of resilience, reinvention, and a powerful mother-daughter partnership. Crest Foam sits on the eastern edge of Kampala, nestled between other factories and warehouses in the Ntinda Industrial Area. It is a quiet giant that hums to life every morning with rolls of flexible foam gliding down production lines. And for every mattress produced, another Ugandan family, somewhere across the country, gets to sleep on a product born from one family’s resilience. But behind the rise…

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Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.

His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.

Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.

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