East African Breweries Limited (EABL) is set to make significant leadership changes at two of its key subsidiaries, with Andrew Kilonzo, the current Managing Director of Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL), tipped to take over as the new Managing Director of Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL), replacing Mark Ocitti, reliable sources have revealed. The transition is expected to take effect at the end of the third quarter of 2025. Kilonzo, a seasoned FMCG executive with over 25 years of experience spanning retail energy, beverages, and entertainment, is an EABL veteran. He took over at Uganda Breweries in April 2022, having previously served…
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East African Breweries Limited (EABL) has announced significant leadership changes, marking the return of two seasoned executives to pivotal roles within the company. Alvin Mbugua has been appointed as the General Manager of EABL Group’s Spirits Division effective September 2024. At the same time, Mark Mugisha Kivuna returns to Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) as the Head of Marketing and Innovations. Alvin Mbugua: A Proven Leader in Beverage Management Alvin Mbugua is a seasoned General Manager with over 17 years of experience spanning the oil and gas, logistics, and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sectors. He holds a Geospatial Engineering degree from…
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Members of the exclusive Johnnie Walker Blue Club bade farewell to outgoing Uganda Breweries Ltd Managing Director Alvin Mbugua, in a multisensory Scotch Experience at the Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort and Spa, on Wednesday August 25. L-R) UBL Board members Racheal Ddumba, Jimmy Mugerwa and Board Chairman Japheth Katto toast to Alvin Mbugua’s success as UBL MD. Mbugua was appointed UBL’s MD in 2019 and steered the business to a 33 per cent growth in the last financial year, despite operating in a volatile environment characterised by Covid-19 lockdowns. He now moves to Panama, where he has been posted…
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Following a short but impressive two years as Managing Director at Uganda Breweries Alvin Mbugua has been appointed as the General Manager of Diageo Caribbean & Central America (CCA) effective 1st September 2021. CCA, is the largest beer business in the Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) region. Alvin became the Managing Director of UBL in July 2019 and hit it off well, leading a +10% growth in net sales in the first 6 months of the year (UBL’s financial year starts in July). Repeated countrywide lockdowns due to Covid-19 however hit the second half causing a -21% decline in net…
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Alvin Mbugua spent the earlier years of his career in West Africa and East Africa before finding his way to South Africa. He knows too well what it is like to set up systems in corporate organizations across the continent. Each of these countries, be it Senegal where he worked or Kenya where he hails, has taught him a lot about innovation. He worked with Shell as a financial consultant and regional chief financial officer for a global logistics firm in the subsequent years. He has spent the last eight years with British multinational beverage alcohol company Diageo and today,…
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A tough operating environment and the growth of the Informal alcohol sector have stifled what would otherwise have been Uganda Breweries Limited’s excellent net sales performance for the past financial year. “The closure of Bars and entertainment venues, and other restrictions necessitated by measures to curb the spread of the COVID -19 pandemic, affected not only our customer base but also led to both local and global supply disruptions, for our produce and for raw materials that we need in our production processes,” Alvin Mbugua the UBL managing Director, said, adding that the tax burden bore by the regulated and…
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The Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) board has admitted Jane Karuku, Eric Kiniti and Rachel Dumba as Non-Executive Directors. The appointment was announced by the UBL Board Chairman, Japheth Katto. Alvin Mbugua, Jimmy Mugerwa, and Agnes Ssali will continue to serve on the UBL Board as Executive Director, Non-Executive Director and Company Secretary, respectively. Jane Karuku is the current Group Managing Director and CEO of East African Breweries Limited. She replaces Andrew Cowan, the former EABL CEO who got appointed by Diageo, the EABL parent company, as the Managing Director, Diageo Africa Regional Markets. Jane was previously the Managing Director of…
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Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) and the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) have today launched a partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation commitment that seeks to establish, foster and promote research and development collaboration, linkages and partnership for purposes of advancing agricultural productivity under UBL’s Local Raw Materials program (LRM). Local Raw Materials is a Uganda Breweries Program that seeks to source 100% of the materials they use in their production processes locally. The program has been developed in line with the second objective of the Third National Development Plan (NDP III) which is to “Strengthen the…
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By Alvin Mbugua The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for effective leadership the world over. Cutting across both the public and private sectors, tough and seemingly impossible decisions with wide-reaching consequences had to be made in a timely fashion. The crisis changed peoples’ lives in often catastrophic ways, from public health concerns to widespread unemployment, and the world needed its leaders to step up. It was, thus, extremely refreshing to bear witness to the ways that women in leadership did exactly that from the onset of the pandemic. Globally, female leaders have been highly commended for acting quickly and decisively…
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Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) has announced a three-day competitive challenge that will bring together young innovators and creative thinkers to collaborate and develop unique e-commerce solutions for a fast-paced business industry dubbed the Creative hackathon. The hackathon will be held in partnership with House of DJs and will seek to address the need for e-commerce solutions accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be held from 10th to 13th December 2020, and will bring together individuals and teams to create prototypes that will be appraised by a group of highly experienced mentors and judges. Speaking about the initiative, Alvin Mbugua,…
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