Movit’s Simpson Birungi firms up his African route-to-market agenda; hires ex-Unilever, GSK, Procter & Gamble, L’Oréal, Nestle and Godrej executives to run it The latest executive recruitments by Movit, have sparked off rumours of a possible takeover deal by Godrej Group, an Indian conglomerate, which has been making a series of acquisitions on the continent in the recent past. But Simpson Birungi, the Ugandan garage-to-manufacturing-giant billionaire whose rise from a Kampala suburb, to curve out a niche in the Eastern and Southern Africa personal and home care segment has a way of surprising the market with big ballsy moves and this could just be one of them.

Movit Products Limited’s Executive Chairman, Simpson Birungi, has made major people reshuffles at the personal and home care products maker, attracting some big-name hard-nosed executives, including from Unilever and Indian FMCG giant, Godrej Consumer Products Limited. In a telltale sign of Simpson’s vision of the company’s future, Bruce Mpamizo, the company’s long-serving CEO, has been retired, but retained as a consultant and board member. Movit has appointed, Roni Chacko as the new Chief Executive Officer. He joins the Zana-Bunamwaya-based company from Godrej Consumer Products Limited, Ghana where he has been the Managing Director as well as overseeing the Francophone markets….