Muhereza Kyamutetera is the Executive Editor of CEO East Africa Magazine. I am a travel enthusiast and the Experiences & Destinations Marketing Manager at EDXTravel. Extremely Ugandaholic. Ask me about #1000Reasons2ExploreUganda and how to Take Your Place In The African Sun.
In an industry built on colour, fizz, and constant visibility, billionaire industrialist Chris Kayoboke has chosen the opposite posture. He is reclusive, rarely quoted, and rarely photographed—an anomaly among Uganda’s billionaire class. Unlike his longtime partner Amos Nzeyi, whose flamboyance and public presence have made him the face of Crown Beverages, or Dr. Maggie Kigozi, whose outspoken and intellectual style has shaped governance debates in corporate Uganda, Kayoboke has exercised power quietly, from behind the scenes. That silence, however, should not be mistaken for marginality. Kayoboke is one of the two majority shareholders of Crown Beverages and a founding pillar…
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The Ruparelia Group has unveiled the next chapter in one of its most visible urban investments, moving ahead with Phase Two of the Kingdom Kampala development, a bold expansion anchored…
Uganda heads into the much-awaited general elections, starting with the Presidential and Parliamentary polls this Thursday, 15 January 2026. This will be Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama’s second national election since…
Edna Torana, Scanad Uganda’s new Country Lead, did not come to the top of Uganda’s advertising industry by being parachuted into power. She came up the hard way — through client meetings that ran late, briefs that changed mid-stream, and campaigns that only succeed when both the numbers and the narrative work. She entered advertising the way many great agency leaders do: close to the work and close to the client. Over the last 15 years, she has built her reputation across some of the most demanding sectors in the economy — finance, telecoms, FMCG, health and social marketing, insurance,…
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For years, Uganda’s digital lending sector has expanded at breathtaking speed, but without the underlying visibility required to support responsible growth. Borrowers have increasingly turned to mobile money as their…
If ESG were a person, at Letshego Uganda, he/she would not be seated in a boardroom quoting frameworks. It would be on the road, on the phone, and occasionally on a slightly unstable network connection: meeting customers where they are and figuring things out as it goes. That, in many ways, captures how the institution is choosing to champion Environmental, Social and Governance principles: practical, embedded, and keen to remind everyone that sustainability is about people, not perfection. ESG is not a side project or a glossy annual report chapter. It is treated as a going concern, woven into operations…
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The Commercial Division of the High Court of Uganda has dismissed a USD 400,000 shareholder loan recovery suit filed by businessman and lawyer Charles Odere, ruling that the matter must be resolved through arbitration in accordance with binding contractual agreements. The decision, delivered on December 24, 2025, by Acting Lady Justice Susan Odongo, concerned Civil Suit No. 963 of 2025, in which Odere sued Stanlib Arena Holdco and Chestnut Uganda Limited seeking recovery of a shareholder loan of USD 400,000, together with contractual and default interest, arising from the Arena Mall Project. Justice Odongo held that the High Court lacked…
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But he was never born with a silver spoon in his mouth. By the time the young Emmanuel first saw an electric light bulb, he was already old enough to understand what it meant to be left behind. He grew up in Buleera, a trading centre in what was then Mubende district, in present-day Mityana District, the last born of four children — one boy and three girls — born to illiterate peasant parents. His father left for Kampala in 1966 in search of casual work and never came back — believed to have been killed in the political…
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Following a reputational and financially bruising fraud scandal — in which the brewer estimates to have lost about UGX 9 billion — and the subsequent exit of its Heads of Marketing and Sales, Nile Breweries appears to have completed an overhaul of leadership across its sales and marketing functions, bringing in a rich fusion of talent from within and beyond its ranks and the wider industry. After the scandal was unearthed, Amou Jervas Majok, who was then the Country Marketing Lead, and her sibling Majok Darwin Jervase Majok, who oversaw trade marketing and key accounts, left the company as investigations…
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Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA) has been tapped to represent Stanbic Bank Uganda and its parent, Stanbic Uganda Holdings Limited, in one of the largest transfer-pricing disputes to reach the Tax Appeals Tribunal (TAT) in recent years — a case carrying a working exposure figure of roughly UGX 117.8 billion. The case, filed by KAA in June 2025 under TAT Application No. 170 of 2025, challenges an assessment by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) arising from years of intra-group charges, franchise fees, technology cost allocations and profit-sharing arrangements between Stanbic and its parent entities. At its core, the dispute tests how…
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