By Silvia Nyambura
Uganda Breweries Limited has announced it will be celebrating 70 years of existence in the country on 27th July, 2016. Set up after the World War II in 1946, the company was the 18th to ever be registered in Uganda. Over the years, it has become an iconic brand dedicated to celebrating and transforming lives locally regionally and internationally.
Addressing the media this morning at the Company’s headquarters in Port Bell Kampala, the out-going Managing Director Nyimpini Mabunda said the brand had lived through the Uganda’s troubled past to what it is today.
UBL has invested significantly in growing its capacity so that more Ugandans can enjoy the diverse offering of high quality alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
“In the early 90’s our capacity was at 650,000 hectolitres and by 2001 we were at 750,000 hectolitres. In 2010 we invested Ushs 44 billion in a new state-of-the art bottling line, which doubled the brewery’s capacity and improved bottling versatility. In 2012, we invested a further GBP £ 1.4 million in installing a mash filter to support the use of local raw material sourced from within the country thus significantly improving our brewing capacity to over 1.2 million hectoliters a year. In 2015, we completed work on the refurbishment of our Effluent Treatment plant, a project that cost GBP £ 4.8 million and significantly increased our capacity to treat our industry waste even if our capacity were to grow by thousands of hectoliters,
