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Gordon Wavamunno
Ugandan businessman
Gordon Wavamunno (born 16 December 1943), is an Ugandanentrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist. He is the owner of Spear Motors Uganda—the sole distributor of Mercedes-Benz vehicles in Uganda. He also owns other companies like GM Tumpeco which makes Ugandan Vehicle number plates, Wavah Water Limited and Wavah Books Limited. He was the director for WBS Television and is reported to be one of the wealthiest people in Uganda.[1] He also served as the honorary consul of Hungary to Uganda.[2]
Background
He was born on 16 December 1943 in Rugaaga, modern-day Isingiro District, Western Region of Uganda.[3] Following early public education in his home area, he moved to Mbarara, the largest town in the sub-region, when he was a teenager. He later relocated to Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.[4]
Work experience
His parents owned a retail shop and he helped in running it as a young boy. When he moved to Mbarara as a teenager, he worked as a shop assistant in a produce store
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Uganda
Gordon & Morine Wavamunno
- Chairman and CEO (Gordon) and Executive Director (Morinne), Spear Group (Diversified)
Gordon: Born Rugaaga, Uganda, 1943. Honorary doctorate, Makerere University (2006); Honorary doctorate, Nkumba University (2007). Morine: Born Kampala, Uganda, 1955. Advanced Secretarial Certificate Training, Uganda College of Business Studies, Nakawa (1973); Fashion Design and Marketing Degree, Germany (1976); Marketing and Sales Certificate, Kaiserslautern (West Germany) (1981); Good Nutrition and Healthy Living Certificate (London) (1986).
“[P]urchasing power in Kampala was very low. …I started cutting down from mass production to individual orders; instead of a factory I became a tailoring company…”
Summary
Chairman and CEO (Gordon Wavamunno) and Executive Director (Morine Wavamunno) of the Uganda-based Spear Group discuss how they successfully grew their business from humble beginnings into a diversified business group spanning insurance, automobile distribution, textiles, bottled water, construction, real estate, farming, radio, and
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Wavamunno: Making of a successful businessman
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From humble beginnings and through the chaos of post-independence Uganda, Gordon Wavamunno has managed to not only survive, but thrive as a businessman. From his book “Gordon B. K. Wavamunno”, we unbundle the man, reveal his motivations and the challenges he went through to build his business empire
Rugaaga — the land of my birth — is one of the remotest and least developed areas in southwestern Uganda. It is located in Bukanga county, 60km on the Mbarara- Rakai road. It was the headquarters of the old Bukanga county, before that county became part of Isingiro.
When I was born, Rugaaga was one of the six sub-counties of Isingiro county in the colonial Ankole district. Rugaaga has not always been as remote and underdeveloped as it is today. However, this once prosperous land had lost its past glory by the 1930s due to a number of reasons.
First, the cattle economy of the area was devastated by the rinderpest epidemic of the 1890s. As the people moved out of Bukanga, their land was reclaimed by the tsetse fly. It was n
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