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Name: Amos Nzeyi Source of Wealth: Carbonated Soft Drinks and Water, Hospitality & Tourism, Confectionaries & Real Estate Age: 75 years Estimated Worth: US$ 57 million (UGX200 billion) Amos is a Ugandan businessman, entrepreneur, and industrialist who started business at quite an early age. He has been in business for more than 50 years. Amos was born in 1947 in Kabale in what was then known as the Kigezi region. His father used to work at the White Horse Inn, the oldest and still one of the best hotels in Kabale, which the businessman has since acquired. He started selling…
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Crown Beverages (Mauritius) Ltd has appointed Paddy Muramiirah, formerly, the Crown Beverages Uganda Chief Executive Officer to head its entry into the Kenyan market. Last week, we reported that the billionaire owners of Uganda’s Crown Beverages, Amos Nzeyi, Chris Kayoboke and Maggie Kigozi were close to acquiring SBC Kenya Ltd (SBC Kenya), a Kenyan beverages maker. SBC Kenya Ltd (SBC Kenya), which is fully owned by Kenya Bottling Company Limited, operates a bottling plant in Nairobi as an independent bottler for PepsiCo products within Kenya. In Uganda, Crown Beverages (Uganda) is the franchise bottler of global food, snack, and beverage…
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Let’s start from where it all started. Tell us about your childhood, growing up and early working days. My father’s dad Mr. Penn Blick was a British settler in Gomba, Central Uganda in the present day Gomba District. He had a coffee farm there. My mother’s dad, Captain Arthur Johnson had settled in Masaka District, where he married a Muganda lady. Therefore both my father, Mr. George William Blick and mother, Molly Johnson Blick were half Ugandan and half British. I was born in Fort Portal where my father was a district engineer for the Ministry of Works. My mother…
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Leading carbonated soft drinks and water maker, Crown Beverages Limited (CBL), have appointed Hilda Mbabazi FCCA, CPA, MBA, as its Chief Executive Officer. CBL is the franchise bottler of global food, snack, and beverage giant, PepsiCo, Inc in Uganda. The company bottles Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Mirinda Fruity, Mirinda Orange, Mirinda Pineapple, Mirinda Green Apple, Evervess Tonic, Sting Energy Drink as well as Nivana and Aquafina water. Mbabazi, replaces Paddy Muramiirah, the CEO since August 2016. She has been the Finance Director since March 2016. Before that, she was Head of Internal Audit between December 2009 and February 2019 and…
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Leading carbonated soft drinks and water makers, Crown Beverages Limited (CBL), have scooped 3 awards at the just-ended Africa, Middle East and South Asia (AMESA) PepsiCo International Bottlers Conference in Dubai. CBL, are franchise bottlers of global food, snack, and beverage giant, PepsiCo, Inc. The company bottles Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Mirinda Fruity, Mirinda Orange, Mirinda Pineapple, Mirinda Green Apple, Evervess Tonic, Sting Energy Drink as well as Nivana and Aquafina water. The company that emerged category winners in the Governance and Net Revenue growth categories, was also declared the Overall Winner, Faster Growth Category. The company was not immediately…
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Crown Beverages Limited, the franchise bottler for PepsiCo, Inc., in Uganda has marked has today officially inaugurated its multimillion-dollar bottling plant at Kakungulu, Kajjansi Town Council, on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. The bottling plant was officially commissioned but the Vice President of Uganda, Rtd Major. Jessica Alupo, who represented the President of Uganda, Gen. H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Also present, and leading a delegation from PepsiCo, was Eugene Willemsen, the CEO Africa, Middle East & South Asia (AMESA) region. Several cabinet ministers and other government officials including Hon. Mwebesa Francis, Minister of Trade Industry and Cooperatives and…
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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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Crown Beverages Limited, the franchisee bottler for PepsiCo International has no doubt, matured both as a large player in the Ugandan non-alcoholic drinks category as well as in the broader corporate Uganda category. If the numbers are anything to go by, the company has nearly if not completely claimed back much of the territory it, in the yesteryears, lost to Century Bottling Limited (recently rebranded into Coca-Cola Beverages Uganda Limited (CCBU)). According to figures exclusively available to CEO East Africa Magazine, CBL which bottles, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Mirinda, Sting, Evervess Tonic and Nivana water, in 2021, turned over UGX513.6 billion,…
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Aquafina is available in a 500ml pack at a recommended retail price of One Thousand Uganda Shillings (1000 UGX) only, countrywide. Aquafina is the first international water brand in Uganda. Aquafina is bottled at the CBL’s state-of-the-art USD76 million (UGX279 billion plant) at Kakungulu, Ssisa, off the Entebbe Expressway. This is CBL’s second plant, after the legacy Nakawa plant, which has undergone several extensions and upgrades. The plant was financed by Citibank and Stanbic, to the tune of USD 50 million. The remaining USD26 million was shareholder re-investment into the business. Alongside Aquafina, the plant also bottles other CBL products-…
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