From home bakery to top confectionery
Jun 30, 2017
Ntake Group supplement: NTAKE, WHO STARTED OUT DISTRIBUTING BREAD ON A BICYCLE IN WANDEGEYA KAMPALA, NOW OWNS MANY BUSINESSES
By Vision Reporters
When Gaster Lule Ntake ventured into baking in the early 1970s, he had no idea that it would come to define his destiny.
With only 2kg of wheat flour Ntake and his wife, Edith, ventured into the confectionery industry from an oven in their kitchen.
Their first customers were their neighbours. The business picked up and by 1978, Ntake Group was founded as a medium-sized bakery with basic machinery.
It was, however, not incorporated as a company until 1997. Ntake had a dream of owning the best bakery in the country that would serve Ugandans the best confectionery products.
Today he runs Ntake Bakery; operating five production facilities countrywide. Ntake told his grass to grace story through a song at the official opening of his latest milling plant at Nalukolongo, a Kampala suburb, early this month.
Ntake in his home bakery in the 1970s
He says the secret behind his success lies in his commitment and dedication to his work, which enable him to offer quality products to customers.
"Every job needs commitment. And for any company or business to last, you have to give quality products your customers. You have to earn customers' trust and always maintain it," he said.
He says his love for his job is the reason he has been able to grow the company. "Loving my job has enabled me come this far. I do not think I can do anything better," he says.
After years of specialising in confectioneries, Ntake has now ventured into baking flour production. The company opened a new milling plant with a 300-tonnes capacity.
Due to high demand for wheat flour and the high quality produced by Ntake, even other bakeries come to Ntake for flour. But Ntake does not consider them competitors, but rather partners. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THIS STORY
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