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Company profile: Uganda Breweries Ltd

Uganda Breweries Ltd is a beverage company. It is one of Uganda’s largest breweries, manufacturing beers, spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages. It owns and markets a number of beers such as Bell Lager, Senator Lager, Pilsner Lager, Ngule, Tusker Lager, Tusker Lite, Tusker Malt Lager, Guinness.

Interest rate cut likely after July drop in inflation

Inflation fell to 5.1% year-on-year in July from 5.9% in June according to data from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, setting the stage for a third consecutive rate cut when Bank of Uganda’s Monetary Policy Committee meets in mid-August.

Top 100 Taxpayers: Nile Breweries Ltd

Nile Breweries Limited is a beverage company, and one of the largest beer manufacturers in Uganda. It invested $29 million at its Jinja plant to increase capacity in 2009, and opened a second brewery in Mbarara four years later that was expected to double capacity; the plant was constructed at a cost of $91 million.

Economy slows in first three months of 2016

Real Gross Domestic Product fell 1.3% year-on-year in the third quarter of financial year 2015/2016, compared to a 2.1% growth in the second quarter, according to data from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics.