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 (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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Non-alcoholic beverage makers, Crown Beverages Limited (CBL) has raised UGX100 million for the Triplets Ghetto Kids, a children’s NGO based in Kampala. This was during their December 21, 2023, thanksgiving ceremony for yet another good business year, held at the Kampala Serena Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. The ceremony was presided over by the Most Rev. Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, with Right Hon. Thomas Tayebwa, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament as Chief Guest. Founded in 2013 by Kavuma Dauda, the NGO employs music, dance, and drama as powerful tools to uplift disadvantaged children,…
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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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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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Uganda’s bottled drinking water sector has been growing unprecedentedly. There are over 100 registered players, with an estimated total turnover of UGX400 billion. Rwenzori Mineral Water is the market leader and contributes more than a quarter of Coca-Cola Beverages Uganda’s (CCBU) turnover. Fresh from winning back, nearly all of its lost market share in the carbonated soft drinks category from CCBU, Crown Beverages Limited, Uganda’s oldest beverage company has now recalibrated its guns with eyes on winning a chunk of the lucrative bottled drinking water category. This November, CBL introduced a new brand of water- Aquafina. Aquafina, enriched mineral water…
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Paddy Muramiirah, Chief Executive Officer of Crown Beverages Limited says while the first lockdown caught them off guard and put them in panic mode for a few weeks, this one has found them better prepared. “We had not relaxed on observing SOPs and sharing prevention measures with staff and when we observed with concern, the rising numbers of new covid-19 infections, we had to tighten all loose ends. “We currently have a comprehensive set of policies in place and the guidelines have been well communicated to staff. We have enhanced hygiene measures, provided additional personal protective equipment (PPE) where necessary,…
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