The CEO East African Magazine has listed the most trusted and respected companies in Uganda this year and on that list includes Nation Media Group which comprises NTV, Daily Monitor, Spark Tv, Enyanda, Nation Courier, KFM and Dembe FM.
To get an understanding on corporate reputation ,CEO East Africa Magazine early this year sought to understand who are some of Uganda’s most trusted and respected companies as well as get deeper insights into what exactly goes into the making of that trust and respect.
Other notable companies that have made it on this list include Fenon Events, a 360 events management and audio visual production company in Uganda. Stanbic Bank, Café Javas, NSSF, Jumia, KLM, Movit and KFC among others.
To arrive at the list of the 100 most trusted and respected companies, they carried out two rounds of online surveys, engaging 1,071 respondents online – 57.24% male and 42.76% female.
The 2-in-1 CEO East Africa Magazine’s Most Trusted and Respected Companies & The Most Admired CEOs in Uganda Survey 2024 also sought to discover who Uganda’s most admired business leaders are.
43.45% of the respondents in the survey, reported that they were between the ages of 31 to 40, while 27.59% were above 40 years old.
The majority of respondents reported that they were at the senior management/ExCo level (37.24%), while 33.79% were either at the CEO/Managing Director/General Manager/Executive Director or Founder/Shareholder and Board Director levels.
19.31% of the respondents reported they worked in the professional services & consulting – legal, advertising, accounting, auditing and HR sectors, while 15.17% were in banking & finance and 13.1% were in insurance (general & life insurance, brokerage & re-insurance) and pensions (13.1%). The healthcare – pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, hospitals, pharmacy chains as well as not-for-profit NGOs and social enterprise categories, each had 6.21% of the respondents while manufacturing – consumer goods, personal care accounted for 4.83% and Information & Communication Technology (tech consulting, data centres, tower companies, and computer software) accounted for 4.14%. Manufacturing – food & beverages and 3.45% of the respondents, similar to retail, distribution, shopping & e-commerce as well as building & construction, real estate and engineering.