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    • Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL) is a sugar manufacturer in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community.


    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, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. 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 is the founder of the Mehta Group of Companies, a Mumbai-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 Eastern Africa, settling in Uganda near the town of Lugazi, Buikwe District in Buganda. Over the next thirty to forty years Mehta travelled between India and East Africa 46 times. In Uganda, he established 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 48 kilometres (30 mi), by road, east of Kampala, the capital and the largest city of Uganda. The geographical 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. As of August 2011, the shareholding in SCOUL was as depicted in the table below:


    See also


    Lugazi Power Station
    Buikwe District
    Economy of Uganda
    List of sugar manufacturers in Uganda


    References




    External links


    Uganda's Total Annual Sugar Production To Hit 350,000 Metric Tonnes In 2011
    Website of Mehta Group of Companies

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