Semwogerere keeps father's legacy alive
May 20, 2016
They started by pounding fresh nkejje, a very nutritious type of fish from Lake Victoria and selling its past to parents with malnourished children both in homes and hospitals.
He was in only in P 4 when his father, now deceased Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Emmanuel Wakoli Katende and his mother Margaret Katende started a cottage business at home in Kayebe village which was later to become the company name.
They started by pounding fresh nkejje, a very nutritious type of fish from Lake Victoria and selling its past to parents with malnourished children both in homes and hospitals.
When his father relinquished control of the company in 2008 after 30 years of building it from scratch, Deo Ssemwogerere took over.
Read about how Ssemwogerere beat the odds to build on what his father started as a cottage industry into an East African regional player in processed foods industry in The New Vision’s Pakasa Pull-out on Friday.
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