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CEO EAST AFRICA MAGAZINE RANKING: Uganda’s 100 Most Trusted and Respected Companies 2024

Muhereza KyamuteteraLists & Rankings News & Analysis The Big StoryAugust 20, 2024February 27, 2025

Corporate reputation is an aggregate of public perceptions about an organisation’s social, political, ethical and business behaviour and how people engage with that organisation based on these perceptions. Ultimately, this…

Crown Beverages Limited at 30 years⏤ probably Uganda’s most-successful privatisation story

Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & Markets The Big StoryApril 5, 2023April 5, 2023

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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Equity Bank’s Allen Ssempa joins Crown Beverages as Corporate Communications Manager

Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany NewsOctober 1, 2020October 1, 2020

Allen Ssempa, formerly with Equity Bank as Senior Marketing Officer – Communications has effective today, October 1, 2020, joined Crown Beverages Limited as the bottler’s Corporate Communications Manager. Crown Beverages, is the Pepsi franchise bottler in Uganda for a range of carbonated soft drinks, including: Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Mirinda Fruity, Mirinda Orange, Mirinda Pineapple, Mirinda Green Apple, 7UP and Evervess Tonic. The 100% Ugandan owned company, also produces Nivana water in four variants namely; Tangerine, Strawberry, Still and Sparkling. As Corporate Communications Manager, we understand, Allen, will be in charge of corporate brand communications, stakeholder engagements, internal communications, 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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