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Dr. Maggie Kigozi on Building Family Businesses: Lessons in Risk, Inheritance, and Succession Planning

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big Story Women In LeadershipApril 12, 2025April 12, 2025

When Dr. Maggie Kigozi stepped into Crown Beverages Limited (CBL) in 1994 following the death of her husband and co-founder, Eng. Dan Kigozi, she wasn’t merely inheriting shares—she was inheriting a dream. One year earlier, Dan, alongside business partners Amos Nzeyi and Chris Kayoboke, had acquired the assets of the defunct, state-owned Lake Victoria Bottling Company (LVBC) and secured a critical franchise from PepsiCo. The trio renamed the company Crown Bottlers Limited—later Crown Beverages—and set out to transform it into a world-class beverage enterprise. More than thirty years on, that dream has not only endured—it has expanded into something extraordinary….

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Crown Beverages celebrates 30 years of refreshing Uganda with a UGX340 billion expansion project

Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany News News & Analysis The Big StoryApril 7, 2023April 7, 2023

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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Meet Paddy Muramiirah, the man spearheading Crown Beverages’ aggressive comeback

Muhereza KyamuteteraC-Suite Leadership Company News The Big Story The Uganda 300 IndexSeptember 1, 2019September 2, 2019

Engineers; Mechanical Engineers at that, rarely make it to the top leadership levels, unless of course it is an engineering firm. For brands in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) categories such as soft drinks or alcohol where the flamboyance and exuberance of the brands is one and the same with that of the brand guardians, the top jobs have often been reserved for marketers and sales people and every once in a while, CEOs with a finance background. Not that there is anything wrong with the Engineers, but somehow, since the marketers are already customer facing, it is easy…

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