Small, Medium Enterprises and emerging companies have been asked to step up the quality of their businesses by improving their branding for better sales. Superbrands East African, a company that carries out surveys on the best and strongest brands wants small companies to move forward in building company reputation and developing their markets. Superbrands project […]
The New Vision on Thursday announced it has acquired a new state of the art printery and started a Luganda Television station in its latest “expansion” efforts. This followed recent addition of five radio stations (Vision Voice, Bukedde fm, Radio West, Etop Radio and Radio Rupiny) to its newspaper brands of The New Vision, Sunday […]
Uganda businesspersons are scheduled to attend a seven day business forum in Turkey ON June 14th, 2010. The delegation from Ugandan will be led to Turkey by Uganda’s minister of Trade, Tourism and Industry, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire. The seven-day-second-global business conference will attract participants from across the world. Otafiire says the conference will enhance […]
Tullow Oil is planning to invest in Uganda oil refinery and production as part of their development programme expected to start off in 2011 from the Kasamene field. Tullow Oil has put aside 8 billion dollars for the 5 year project, which will be divided to build facilities that will enable better production of oil […]
Ultimate Media The Procurement Officer of Jinja district, Fred Gulale has been interdicted over alleged abuse of office. Gulale was interdicted on the orders of the Executive Director of Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets, Edgar Agaba. The PPDA boss instructed the chief administrative officer of Jinja to sack Gulale following allegations that he was […]
Ultimate Media Uganda shilling has today gained ground against US dollar due to inter-bank sales of the US currency. Money experts in Kampala say the trend may remain stable through out the week. At around 9:00am East African time today most commercial banks in Kampala traded Uganda shilling between 2,130 to 2,145 per dollar compared […]
Ultimate Media The Ministry of Energy and Mineral development has today commissioned a 1.5 million dollar gold refinery in Kampala. Victoria gold star refinery will help to stimulate the mining sector development which will add value to mineral ores and also increase mineral trade in the country. State Minister in charge of energy and […]
Ultimate Media The East African investment conference has ended today with a call to member states of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi to implement recommendations aimed at fostering economic growth at regional level. The conference attended by over 2500 delegates has resolved to tackle non-tariff and improve investment in electricity generation to boost […]
Ultimate Media The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has today announced that it registered a tax revenue shortfall of about 41 billion shillings in March 2010. The URA Commissioner in charge of Public Affairs, Paul Kyeyune says that the deficit in revenue collections were due to tax leakages. Kyeyune however says the overall trend of […]
Ultimate Media The Uganda Exports promotion Board has started a survey to establish the extent of the damage created by the cancellation of European flights. The Board says many exporting companies have registered losses of about 75,000 Euros a week in the Food and vegetables exports despite trying to use alternative means and routes […]