Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL) is a

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manufacturer in

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, the third-largest economy in the

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Overview

SCOUL is the third-largest manufacturer of sugar in Uganda, producing an estimated 60,000 metric tonnes annually, accounting for approximately 17 percent of national output. Its sugar is marketed in Uganda,

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, the

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, and

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. According to a 2010 published report, SCOUL was undergoing renovations and expansion to increase output to 100,000 metric tonnes annually by 2013.

History

Nanji Kalidas Mehta Nanji Kalidas Mehta, MBE (17 November 1887 – 25 August 1969) was an industrialist and philanthropist from Gujarat. He founded the Mehta Group of Industries in British East Africa, now having its head office in India. His son Mahendra Mehta, d ...

is the founder of the

Mehta Group The Mehta Group of Companies, commonly referred to as the Mehta Group, is an Indian conglomerate based in Mumbai and headquartered in Gandhinagar, with subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, Kenya and Uganda. The group employs in excess of ...

of Companies, a

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-based conglomerate, with business interests in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. In 1900, at age thirteen, he left his native India and sailed to

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, settling in Uganda near the town of

Lugazi Lugazi is a town in the Buikwe District of the Central Region, Uganda, Central Region of Uganda. The town is also called "Kawolo", and the two names are interchangeably used by the local inhabitants. Location The town is on the Kampala-Jinja Hig ...

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in Buganda . Over the next thirty to forty years Mehta travelled between India and East Africa 46 times. He established in Uganda cotton ginneries, a sugar plantation, a sugar factory, tea plantations, and coffee plantations. The sugar factory, established in 1924, eventually became SCOUL.

Location

The main factory of the company is located in the town of Lugazi, approximately , by road, east of

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...

, the capital and the largest city of Uganda. The coordinates of the SCOUL factory are 0°22'59.0"N, 32°56'27.0"E (Latitude:0.383056; Longitude:32.940833).

Ownership

SCOUL is a subsidiary of the Mehta Group, a diversified industrial and investment conglomerate based in Mumbai, employing over 10,000 people in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. , the shareholding in SCOUL was as depicted in the table below:

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