WHO WE ARE
Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) was established in 1951. After several ownerships, SABMiller Plc, acquired the company in 2001 from the Madhvani family. Nile Breweries is now proudly part of AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer, after the successful completion of the business combination with SABMiller plc in 2016.
The annual combined capacity of Nile Breweries Limited with two plants in Jinja and Mbarara stands at 3.0 million hectoliters of beer, making NBL the No 1 provider of locally produced beer in Uganda.
Jinja Plant
Jinja Malting Plant
Jinja is also a home to the country’s only Malting Plant. The plant was commissioned in November 2011 with initial capacity of 15,000MT of Malt adjusted to 30,000MT per Annum, and is delivering the best quality malt in Africa. It is the sole supplier of Malt to Nile Breweries Beer Plants in Jinja and Mbarara and some other ABInBev Breweries in East Africa.
Jinja Maltings is the Africa’s Best Vertical Operations Plant 6 years in a row, has won Africa Quality always leaders Award 4years in the row, and the first Autonomous Champion Plant in Africa.
The Plant uses locally grown barley as a raw material through the maltings process to convert it into Malt which is distributed to the Breweries for Brewing of Beer. The plant has improved the livelihood of so many Ugandans (farmers). More than 10,000 farmers are locally supported by the company to grow and supply barley to the Maltings Plant.
Mbarara Plant
In 2011 Nile Breweries Limited undertook a study to determine whether new capacity should be added by expanding the Jinja plant or via a greenfield brewery at another location in Uganda. Work on the new Mbarara brewery in Western Uganda was completed in 2013 with a total investment of $90.6 million. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni launched the plant on August 22, 2013. Mbarara had an initial capacity of 650,000 hectoliters of beer per annum, and this has been expanded to 1.3 million hectoliters per annum.
The total investment in the new Mbarara Brewery is $90.6 million, and follows hard on the heels of the $29 million expansion of the Jinja brewery in 2009, and the $25.6 million malting and effluent treatment plant projects in 2011, bringing our capital investment in major projects in Uganda to over $200 million in the last 5 years.
Our headquarters are situated on Port bell road, Luziira, Kampala. The company is proudly part of the AB InBev family, the world’s largest brewer whose brands are present in over 150 countries. Nile Breweries Limited is the producer of: Nile Special, Nile Special Stout, Club Pilsner, Eagle Lager, Eagle Extra, Eagle Dark, and Castle Lite.