Victoria Sugar Limited

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Victoria Sugar Limited
Company typePrivate
Industry Manufacture & Marketing of Sugar
Founded2018;8 years ago (2018)
Headquarters Luweero District, Uganda
Key people
Jiyani Alpesh (Managing Director)
Products Sugar
Number of employees
8,000+ (2025)
Website Homepage

Victoria Sugar Limited (VSL), is a sugar-manufacturing company in Uganda.

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Location

The factory and company headquarters are located off the Kampala-Gulu Road, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Luweero, where the district headquarters are located. [1]

Overview

The factory sits on 17,000 acres (27 mi2) of land in Luwweero District, Buganda Region, Uganda. Its parent group (Victora Group of Companies), owns another 10 square miles (6,400 acres) in neighboring Kiryandongo District for future expansion. In addition to land owned directly by the factory, there is a network of out-growers in the surrounding neighborhoods. [2]

As of March 2025, the factory crushed an average of 3,000 tons of raw cane on a daily basis. This led to the daily production of 120 tons of brown granular table sugar or approximately 36,000 tons of sugar annually. In addition, at that time the factory generated 16 megawatts of electricity by incinerating bagasse. Of the 16MW, 6 megawatts were used internally and the remaining 10 MW were sold to the national grid to generate income. [3]

By December 2025, energy production at the factory had adjusted to 15 MW total generation, with 5 MW used internally and 10 MW sold to the national grid. At that time, the factory was preparing to start generating another 3 MW of electricity from biogas. [4]

Victoria Group

Victoria Sugar Factory is a member of the Victoria Group of Companies, a Ugandan industrial conglomerate involved in "sugar manufacturing, clean energy co-generation, distillery operations, plastics manufacturing, tarpaulins, tyre manufacturing, tiles production, steel products, cable manufacturing, recycled batteries, and household utensils". The group was established in 2018 and had invested a reported US$150 million in the Ugandan economy by December 2024. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Distance between Luweero, Uganda and Victoria Sugar Limited, Luweero District, Uganda" (Map). Google Maps . Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  2. ↑ Brian Musaasizi (30 December 2025). "Museveni Commissions Victoria Sugar Limited Factory In Luwero , Hails Proprietors for supporting national development". Red Pepper . Mukono, Uganda. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  3. ↑ Tonny Abet (8 March 2025). "Luwero factory generates 10MW of power from sugar waste". Daily Monitor . Kampala, Uganda. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  4. ↑ Kenneth Kazibwe (1 January 2026). "Museveni Commissions Victoria Sugar Factory in Luweero". Nile Post Uganda. Kampala. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  5. ↑ DEU (31 December 2025). "Museveni commissions Victoria Sugar factory in Luwero, pledges minimum wage action, power costs". Daily Express Uganda (DEU). Kampala. Retrieved 1 January 2026.

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