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 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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