Tobacco in Uganda is dominated by British American Tobacco and local player Leaf Tobacco & Commodities, with sales limited to cigarettes. There has been a shift away from premium cigarette brands as rising prices have made cigarettes less affordable.
British American Tobacco (BAT), the leading player in cigarettes in Uganda, recorded positive growth in retail volume terms in 2022. However, despite this, the company’s profit before tax declined for the first time in several years.
Uganda’s illicit tobacco trade is having a huge negative impact on the country’s tobacco industry. Illicit trade expanded substantially during 2020 and 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted commercial activity in key sectors of the Ugandan economy, putting household incomes under pressure and encouraging many smokers to switch to the illicit trade in search of cheaper options.
Uganda is a tobacco producing country with an estimated 75,000 tobacco farmers, which are based mainly in the northwest and southwest of the country. Around half of these farmers produce Burley air cured tobacco, with the remaining farmers growing Virginia flue cured or dark fire cured tobacco.
All companies involved in the distribution of fmcg in Uganda face various challenges, with many of the country’s roads in poor condition. Only around a third of the country’s entire road network was paved at the end of the review period, although road infrastructure is improving thanks to significant numbers of transportation development projects, funded by substantial loans from the African Development Bank (AfDB).
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Passport Tobacco covers the seven major tobacco categories: Cigarettes, Cigars & Cigarillos, Smoking tobacco (made up of Pipe tobacco and RYO tobacco), Smokeless Tobacco (snuff and chewing tobacco), E-Vapour Products (closed and open); Heated Tobacco; and Tobacco Free Oral Nicotine. Smoking paraphernalia such as pipes, rolling papers, lighters or matches, etc., are not included, nor are nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products, which are part of Euromonitor's Passport Consumer Healthcare database.
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