Nile Breweries - a global connection

In July 2001, Nile Breweries Ltd. was fully acquired by South African Breweries Ltd (SAB). A year later in May 2002, SAB acquired Miller Brewing Company in the United States, thus forming SABMiller plc.

In March 2006, SABMiller’s brewing figures topped the 17.6 billion litres mark. It sells over 3350 litres of beer each minute of the day, and brews and distributes over 200 beer brands and flavoured alcoholic drinks (FADs) around the globe.

SABMiller is also one of the largest bottlers of Coca Cola outside of the United States- 60% of Africa’s Coca Cola is produced at SABMiller plants.

SABMiller has brewing interests in over 60 countries spread over 5 continents

Nile Breweries – an award winning company

In recent years, the company’s investment in its people, brands and physical assets have given rich reward, both in performance and recognition.

Volume growth and profitability have steadily risen, along with significant debt reduction that threatened the company’s ability to trade during the early part of the decade. This has encouraged further capital project investment planned over the next five years.

This performance has been recognized both internally and externally through a variety of achievements, notably:

2003

• Marketing – category winner of the inaugural Mercatus Award in London, ahead of many other SABMiller executives and external marketing specialists, this global SABMiller Marketing award was in recognition of the company’s initiative and success with the Eagle Lager project.

• Technical – first brewery in the country to be fully certificated by Uganda National Bureau of Standards; also the first to be fully certificated by the International Standards Organization or ISO 9001:2000 for manufacturing quality systems.

• Human Resources – first Ugandan company to win an international prestigious Excellence in Practice Award from the American Society of Training and Development. Out of 124 international submissions, 9 participants received EIP awards; NBL voted 2^nd runner up “Employer of the Year”.

2004

• Marketing – MD Africa & Asia Award for “successful introduction of Eagle”.

• Human Resources – NBL voted “Best Employer of the Year” beating 77 participating organizations; Nile Breweries attains the HACCP food safety accreditation.

2005

• Marketing – 2^nd consecutive MD Africa & Asia Award for “Best Marketing Initiative”, in recognition of the hugely successful brand extension, Eagle Extra.

• Human Resources – NBL voted “Best Employer of the Year” for the second consecutive year, setting a new record. This was ahead of 109 corporate and private company entries.

• Corporate – 1^st Runner Up in the “Business in the Community” category of the prestigious Oracle International Awards of 2005 in London. These awards recognize outstanding initiatives in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility applied to Africa

2006

• Technical – NBL voted runner up “Best Brewery Africa & Asia”, ahead of much bigger and more capital intensive breweries in the process.

• Technical – Nile Special achieves Gold Medal status at the Monde Selection International in Prague, Czechoslovakia. This is the 8^th such award since 1991.

• Technical – EMS ISO 14000 accreditation. The International Standards Organization is a European based standard, entailing the implementation of the specific programs and processes over a number of years. Two years ago Nile Breweries embarked on an environmental management program that strictly follows ISO 14000 program. In 2006, the company was accredited for the progress made towards achievement on these Environmental Management objectives.

• Finance – NBL was jointly awarded the SABMiller Africa & Asia “Financial Reporting Excellence Award” with Tanzania Breweries Ltd in recognition of outstanding reporting systems and processes.

• Finance – winner of SABMiller Africa & Asia “Excellence in Treasury Management” award due to outstanding treasury management that resulted in the elimination of interest bearing debt.

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