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Olam has been in Uganda since 1997 and today operates across 6 key products.
We procure and process cotton, cocoa, sesame and coffee in the country for export worldwide, and import and edible oils.
Our business is headquartered in Kampala with a strong regional presence in Hoima, Kibuuku, Bundibugyo, Lira, Arua, Kitgum, Pakwach and Mayuge. We have more than 70 permanent employees, and work with nearly 900 seasonal staff across our operations, which range from origination and processing, to logistics and distribution.
Our coffee, cocoa and sesame are processed in Kampala at our well-equipped laboratory to ensure that our products consistently meet the highest standards of quality control, while maintaining excellent flavour and aroma.
We are also proud to own and operate Uganda’s oldest cotton gin, which spins medium-to-fine counts to meet the high specifications of our customers worldwide.
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Aranyak Sanyal
Country Head, UgandaNews, Views and Insights
14th Sep, 2020
Olam Cocoa launches new business for professional chefs, bakers and pâtissiers
London
Olam Cocoa has today announced the launch of Olam Cocoa for Professionals, a new business which will make its premium deZaan cocoa powders available to restaurants, caterers, and patisseries for the first time.
deZaan cocoa powder is built on over 100 years of Dutch cocoa-making expertise and offers a full range of flavours, colours and textures, making it perfect for professionals. But in the past, it has been sold in tonnes not kilos. Now, a range of six dutched and natural cocoa powders in different colours and flavours will be made available in 1kg and 5kg bags, giving professional chefs and bakers access to specialist cocoa ingredients previously only available to large manufacturers.
The move is a response to rising demand from professional chefs and bakers for high quality cocoa ingredients that give them greater control over the flavour and colour of their final creations, and growing dissatisfaction with what is currently available on the market. Over ha
21st Aug, 2020
Olam Coffee partners with customers to support vulnerable farmers through COVID-19
In May, Olam Coffee launched a COVID-19 Global Intervention Plan to strengthen its ongoing relief efforts for the world’s worst-affected coffee farming communities.
Securing skilled labour, earning a living and affording usual food and new hygiene supplies are the main challenges being faced by coffee farmers as a result of lockdowns and movement restrictions. All of which are compounding the pre-existing vulnerability of coffee farmers to low prices and climate shocks.
Donations from customers and partners, together with Olam’s contributions, have reached US$449,670 to date, funding food and hygiene packages for over 20,000 coffee households across 12 countries, where farmers are navigating the complexities of harvesting during a pandemic.
Vivek Verma, Managing Director and CEO, Olam Coffee, said,
“We are extremely grateful for the generous support from our customers, namely Lavazza, Nespresso, Caffé Borbone, JM Smuckers, Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee, Strauss, Melitta a
21st Mar, 2019
Turning risk into opportunity: How to keep more of the world's forests intact
Simon Brayn-Smith, Global Head of Sustainability Olam Cocoa reflects on the cocoa sector’s role in deforestation and what industry can do about it.
It’s no secret that the earth’s forests are shrinking at an alarming rate. According to the World Bank, an area larger than South Africa (502,000 square miles) was lost between 1990 and 2016[1].
Agriculture is one of the largest drivers of this deforestation and the role of cocoa farming in particular has become the focus of much public and private debate. Anyone in the cocoa industry is acutely aware of the challenge at hand: creating sustainable livelihoods for communities who rely on cocoa farming for their survival whilst preserving forest landscapes for future generations.
Undoubtedly, the cocoa industry has been part of the problem, but we can also be a catalyst for change. The Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI) is a prime example of the impact collective action can have on combating deforestation in the world’s two lar
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