Our Employees

Training and Skills Development

Achieving and maintaining competitive advantage means that Nile Breweries Ltd’s investment in training constitutes 6% of its payroll, exceeding international benchmarks. At Nile Breweries, employees on average receive 8 training days per person a year. This amounted to almost 3 000 training days in 2005.

The focus on skills development at Nile Breweries is to build human capital and contribute to the business’s performance and, as a result, Nile Breweries delivery skills development has consistently exceeded international benchmarks over the last four years.

Health and HIV

Nile Breweries Ltd employees have always been at the core of the company’s success. To ensure the future of the company, Nile Breweries Ltd rolled out a comprehensive program to educate the workforce on HIV prevention measures and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS amongst its workforce and their families.

To this end a peer education structure was launched in 2001; KAP (Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices) survey methodology was applied and a sensitization program was initiated. An HIV/AIDS workplace policy was rolled out in 2002, a modern clinic built, Occupational Health Practitioners trained, and condom distribution implemented routinely. Voluntary Counselling & Testing (VCT) and Awareness, Counselling & Testing (ACT) campaigns were also rolled out amongst other interventions.

In 2002 a prevalence survey was carried out amongst the workforce and the company started offering anti-retroviral therapy to employees and members of their families. To date, a large part of the workforce has participated in VCT and elements of this program have now been extended to the members of the community of Njeru, close to the company’s headquarters.

In 2005 NBL was 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.

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