When in 1993, Amos Nzeyi, and his partners, Chris Kayoboke and the now deceased Dan Kigozi, made a bid to buy what was left of the assets of the then government-owned Lake Victoria Bottling Company (LVBC), the company was in tatters. According to Nzeyi, who is now the company’s Executive Chairman, “There was one old line, not enough coolers, bottles, trucks or infrastructure”. “The company was being subsidised by the government to be able to buy raw materials from PepsiCo and even pay, its workers,” Nzeyi recalls. At the time LVBC’s assets were put up for privatisation, the state…
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