Company profile

Newman Foods Limited

Newman Foods Limited (Newman's) is a Ugandan agro-processor that turns locally grown crops into packaged snacks, sauces and juices and exports fresh fruits and vegetables. Established in 2013 in Kampala, Newman's buys produce from smallholder farmers and runs a processing factory in Nakawuka, Wakiso District. The product range includes potato, cassava and gonja (plantain) crisps, roasted nuts and seeds, dough-based snacks, chilli sauces and banana juice, and the factory holds a Uganda National Bureau of Standards HACCP certificate for snack production. Newman's supplies formal and informal retailers across Uganda and the wider region, and ships fresh produce such as chillies, garden eggs and matooke to buyers in Europe. Newman's also supports its out-grower network with extension services and credit advances for farm inputs such as seed potatoes.

Sector

Consumer / Packaged Food and Meats, Agricultural Products, Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Markets

Uganda

Founded

2013

Ownership

Private

Stage

SME

Capital raised

$4.9m

Employees

201-500

Business model

B2B Manufacturing

Products and services

Newman's Snacks (potato, cassava & gonja crisps), Roasted & Fried Snacks (nuts, seeds, popcorn & maize snacks), Dough Snacks (daddies, baggia & cookies), UG Kamulali Chilli Sauces (chilli & hot sauces), Konk Banana Juice, Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Exports (chillies, garden eggs, matooke & avocado) & Out-Grower Extension Services (farmer training & input credit)

Transactions

Source: Partner Researchers.