Madhvani Group Magazine Volume 21 No. 1 January 2013 Madhvani Foundation receives prestigious award from H.E. President Museveni Royal visit to Paraa Safari Lodge Kakira Outgrowers: Their success stories When it comes to protecting AGRO INDUSTRY + 254 020214415/17, 722205407 Kakira Sugar Ltd. Excel Construction Ltd. Email:[email protected] your product and image both P.O Box 121, Jinja, Uganda P O Box 1202, Jinja Uganda Website: www.marasa.net Tel. 041 444000 Tel: 041 4221996/ 4505959 Fax: 041 444333/6 Fax: 043 4123150/ 041 4220482 Mara Leisure Camp E-mail: [email protected] E-mail:[email protected] P. O. Box 48995-00100 Inside and outside... Web site: www.kakirasugar.com [email protected] Nairobi, Kenya Website: www.excelconstruction.org + 254 020214415/17, 722205407 Kakira Sweets and Confectioneries Email:[email protected] P O Box 121, Jinja Uganda TOURISM Website: www.marasa.net Tel. 041 4444000 Mweya Safari Lodge Fax: 041 4444110 P O Box 22827, Kampala Uganda GROUP SERVICES E-mail: kakirasweets@kakirasweets. Tel: 031 2260260/1 Muljibhai Madhvani & Co. Ltd. com Fax: 041 4340056 P O Box 54, Jinja Uganda Lodge Tel. No. 041 4340054 Tel. 042 4121218/4120511 Mwera/ Nakigalala Tea Estates Lodge Fax No. 041 4340056 Fax: 043 4123174 P O Box 6361, Kampala, Uganda E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Tel. 075 2799888 Website: www.marasa.net Fax 041 4269399 Madhvani Group Projects Division E-mail: [email protected] Paraa Safari Lodge P O Box 6361 Kampala Uganda [email protected] P O Box 22827, Kampala Uganda Tel: 041 4259390/4/5 [email protected] Tel: 031 2260260/1 Fax: 041 4259399 Fax: 041 4340056 E-mail: [email protected] Kajjansi Roses Ltd. Lodge Tel. No. 077 2788880 [email protected] P O Box 6361, Kampala, Uganda Lodge Fax No. 039 2280588 Tel. 041 4200959 E-mail: [email protected] TPSC Uganda Fax: 041 4200314 Website: www.marasa.net P O Box 54, Jinja, Uganda E-mail: info@kajjansi_roses.com Tel: 041 4444000 Chobe Safari Lodge Fax: 041 4444336 MANUFACTURING P O Box 22827, Kampala Uganda E-mail: [email protected] Steel Corporation of East Africa Ltd. Tel: 031 2260260/1 P O Box 1023, Jinja, Uganda Fax: 041 4340056 East African Distributors Ltd. Tel. : 043 4121451/2 E-mail: [email protected] P O Box 22938, Kampala, Uganda Fax: 043 4121453 Website: www.marasa.net Tel: (256) 41 255432 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (256) 41 255433 Silverback Lodge Mobile: (256) 75 2717171 Makepasi Match Ltd. P O Box 22827, Kampala Uganda E-Mail: [email protected] P O Box 54, Jinja, Uganda Tel: 031 2260260/1 Tel. : 043 4121070 Fax: 041 4340056 East African Building Solutions Ltd. Fax : 043 4121135 E-mail: [email protected] P O Box 3347, Kampala, Uganda E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.marasa.net Tel: (256) 41 255432 Fax: (256) 41 255433 East African Packaging Solutions Ltd. Premier Safaris Ltd.(Ground handling Mobile: (256) 75 2717171 P O Box 1189, Jinja, Uganda and Air charter services) Tel. : 043 4120432/ 4120134 P O Box 22827 Kampala Uganda Industrial Security Services Ltd. Fax : 043 4120141 Tel. : +256 31 2260260/1 P O Box 1483, Jinja, Uganda E-mail: [email protected] Fax : +256 31 2260262 Tel. 043 4131769 ...Let Uganda’s leading packaging company E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 043 4123174 SERVICES Website: www.premiersafaris.com E-mail: [email protected] East African Underwriters Ltd. take care of that. Now ISO 9001:2008 certified. MADHVANI GROUP JANUARY 2013 P O Box 22936, KENYA Madhvani Properties Division Kampala, Uganda Marasa Africa P O Box 33479 Confirming what our existing customers already know Tel. 041 4232893/ 4233794 Kenya Reservations Office Kampala Uganda Fax: 041 4234221 Simco Plaza 5th floor Suite 501 Tel: 0772 799978/ 0772 760110 about who to source the best quality packaging from. E-mail: [email protected] P O Box 48995, 00100 GPO E-mail: [email protected] Nairobi [email protected] Liberty Life Assurance Uganda Kenya P O Box 22938, Kampala Uganda Tel: +254 202101333 CORPORATE SOCIAL Head Office and Plant Tel: 041 4233794/4254708 Tel: +254 737799990/2 RESPONSIBILITY / EDUCATION P. O. Box 1189 Jinja Uganda, Tel: +256 43412 0432 / 43412 0134 Fax: +256 43412 0141 Fax: 041 4256414/4259643 Tel: +254 735472911 Muljibhai Madhvani Foundation Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] P O Box 54 Sales Office [email protected] Jinja Uganda Plot 96-98, Business Park, 5th Street Industrial Area Software Applications (U) Ltd. Website: www.marasa.net Tel: 041 4255432/ 0773 215554 P. O. Box 6361, Kampala Uganda. Tel: +256 414 505069 Fax: +256 414 505071 P O Box 22611, Kampala Uganda Fax: 031 2263999/ 041 4255433 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Tel: 041 4531521/2/3 Aberdare Country Club/ The Ark E-mail: [email protected] Thinking inside and Outside the box Fax: 041 4531524 P. O. Box 48995-00100 1 E-mail: [email protected] Nairobi, Kenya Contents 24 New sales and Marketing head for Editor’s Marasa Kenya 4 Madhvani Group: Giving Back To 25 Madhvani Foundation receives Note Society prestigious award 7 Retirement of Mr. KGK Raju Bermuda Directors Visit. Page 13 26 Q and A with Madhvani Dear readers, Foundation Adminstrator One of the late Muljibhai Madhvani’s most quoted 4 Kakira Outgrowers: Their success words are, “Your wealth is your people.” And the people 14 Kabuye Sugar Works upland sugar the patriarch of the Madhvani family referred to were stories 27 A word of appreciation from a not just the ones that work with Madhvani Group but growing scheme all the communities that surround Madhvani Group acholarship beneficiary businesses. This is why the Group takes giving back 5 Farewell to Richard Orr to these communities very seriously. In this issue 15 Kabuye Sugar’s New GM we highlight the different projects that the Group is 28 Software application involved in and how the Group is changing the lives 12 Mahmood Awan receives of people. 15 Liberty Life Assurance Uganda: Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal Helping you predict your family’s 29 20 years on and Exel construction To understand why the Muljibhai Madhvani still excels Foundation received the prestigious Patrice Lumumba financial well-being after you are Award from H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni gone in 2012, you only have to read about the meticulous Proprietors 30 EAPS gets ISO certification process the Foundation goes through to choose Muljibhai Madhvani & Co. Ltd. beneficiaries and most importantly, the testimonies Plot 25 Main Street, 16 Pictorial of some of the beneficiaries of the scholarship in this P.O.Box 54, Jinja 31 Industrial Security Services; Your issue. security comes first Correspondence 18 Marasa’s Anil Ghei One of the highlights of the 2012 Madhvani Group All correspondence should be calendar was the day Directors of our parent company, addressed to: East African Holdings, Bermuda visited different 32 Premier Safaris welcomes new The Editor, Group Magazine 20 Marasa Africa partners to launch companies of the Group. Check out the photos P.O.Box121 Jinja, Uganda General Manager highlighting the places they visited. initiative programme for Guides Tel: +256 - 41 - 4444000 E-mail: [email protected] 2012 was a remarkable year around the Group. While we said farewell to some people (some of whom have 20 Chobe Safari Lodge launches first Registered at the GPO as a Newspaper worked with the Group for as many as 26 years), we walking Safaris welcome a group of people that we are eager to work Contacts with. New partnerships have been made, different Jinja: units have expanded, new activities have been added Muljibhai Madhvani & Co. Ltd. 21 Mweya’s new General manager to our Marasa Lodges’ profiles and many targets have Plot 25, Main Street, been met. Go on and read about all these. P.O.Box 54, Jinja Tel: +256 - 33 - 2342100/200 This issue would not have been as great as it is without the invaluable help of Mrs Sheila Madhvani, Mr Kakira: Maanan Madhvani, Ms Rukia Mwai and Mr P. Kumar. Kakira Sugar Ltd. MADHVANI GROUP JANUARY 2013 Thank you for your assistance and guidance. And to all 10 Kms Jinja - Tororo Road the leaders in different units of the Group that helped The Duke of Kent visits Paraa Safari Loadge Tel:: +256 41 - 4444333/6 Page 33 with this, thank you for your co-operation. Kampala: We hope you, our dear readers, enjoy this issue and Mweya’s multitaxing coxswain Page 21 Madhvani Group get to know more about what we do. 32 Mara Leisure Camp new General Plot 96 - 98, 5th Street Industrial Area, Kampala manager Have a fruitful 2013! 22 Mweya Safari Lodge launches Tel: +256 - 41 - 4259390/4/5 Honeymooners tree planting Hellen Nyana Design/Layout 34 Excel construction constructs Group Magazine Editor programme Big Presentations Ltd MADHVANI GROUP JUNE 2010 second brewery for Nile Breweries P.o.Box 6386 - Kampala Tel: +256 39 2964308 23 Marasa Africa’s latest addition in Mbarara E-mail: [email protected] 2 3 In addition, it built libraries at Busoga College Mwiri, Jinja SSS and Kakira High School and two classroom blocks at Lwanyama Primary School in Kamuli district. A library at Iganga SSS was renovated and staff quarters were built for St. Paul Day and Boarding school in Bugembe, Jinja. Budondo Primary School in Jinja was also renovated by KSL. Over the years, many other schools have also benefited from donations and physical help from KSL.