Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited

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Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL) is a major sugar producer in Uganda. It makes about 60,000 tonnes of sugar a year, roughly 17% of Uganda’s total sugar output, and sells to Uganda and neighboring countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan. In 2010 SCOUL announced renovations and expansion to raise production to 100,000 tonnes annually by 2013.

SCOUL was founded in 1924 by Nanji Kalidas Mehta, the founder of the Mehta Group, a Mumbai-based business conglomerate. Mehta moved to Uganda in 1900 and started sugar farming and a sugar factory in the Lugazi area. The Lugazi factory later became SCOUL, whose main plant is in Lugazi, about 48 kilometers east of Kampala.

SCOUL is a subsidiary of the Mehta Group, which operates across Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. The Mehta Group employs tens of thousands of people worldwide; SCOUL itself had more than 7,000 employees in 2006.