Our History
Edward Kazaire is the brainchild of Kazire Health Products Limited a subsidiary of the Kazire Group of companies that traces its origin to 2002 when a graduate of Chemistry from Makerere decided to embark on natural products development with a special focus on herbal medicine. He named the company Kazire in honor of his grandfather Mr. Rafael Kazaire, who in the 1960s utilized motorcades to develop a significant transport business in the Kigezi Region. Starting with 20,000/=, Edward created a cough syrup and began his journey from the Kebisoni market. What started as a trial spontaneously spread throughout Rukungiri to the neighbouring districts of Ntungamo, Kanungu, Kabale, Kisoro, Mbarara, Sheema, Mitooma, Buhweju, Ibanda, Kiruhura and Insingiro. In a short period, other regions like Rwenzori, Buganda, Bunyoro and Tooro received the gospel of Kazire Health Products.
In 2006, Edward took a small break to advance his practice and flew to China where he got more training in herbal products developed at The Hangzhou Wahaha Group industrial complex. A year later, he returned and organized himself to scale up the dream. On May 8th 2008, Kazire Health Products Limited was incorporated as a company by the Registrar of Companies by URSB. This marked the beginning of a new era of natural health juices with Kazire Lemon as a pioneer brand. This was a supplement to herbal medicines that were already on the market, to promote health-based feeding among Ugandans.
To date, over 500 individuals are directly employed and over 5,000 people are employed indirectly by Kazire Health Products Limited. The company is headquartered on Plot 178, Ruti, Mbarara-Kabale Road. The company operates in East and Central Africa with plans to expand to Southern Africa in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. It has birthed six subsidiaries including Kazire Health Products Limited-Tanzania, Liz Logistics Co. Limited-Uganda, KazTranz Logistics Co. Limited-Tanzania, Kazire Pharmaceuticals Co. Limited-Uganda, KazTranz Co. Limited-Uganda, and MaxTranz Technologies Africa. These companies have formed a conglomerate known as The Kazire Group of Companies chaired by Kazire Group of Companies.
In the quest to promote Sustainable Development, the company established a nucleus farm in Masindi as a centre for agriculture demonstration and conservation of herbal medicine with support from Uganda Development Bank and Uganda Investment Authority. The farm seats 960 acres with crops like Citrus, Cactus, Aloe vera; herbal medicinal plants like Prunus africana, Kigeria africana, Warburgia ugandensis, Mondia whitei, Ginseng etc. The farm is helping to roll out farmers in the Bunyoro area to grow raw materials that will support agro-processing industries to have a stable supply of raw materials. The philosophy of the company is to have the masses produce for industries rather than having the industries produce massively for themselves to produce and sell to the final consumers. This will invoke socioeconomic empowerment to the farmers and link them automatically to the money economy.
Sixteen years down the road, the company has succeeded in defining agriculture value chain management systems since 90% of the raw materials come from agriculture. Another level of success has been registered in herbal medicine development with two drugs approved by the NDA and one that has passed Clinical Trials (The highest stage of drug development) and is in the process of being registered on the National Drug Register. The company has an advanced logistic system operating in Uganda and Tanzania tailored around Information, Communication and Technology systems.
The company and its vision bearer are looking at the possibility of serving 400 million people in East, Central and Southern Africa by 2030 in areas of nutritional supplements, health-based beverages, pharmaceutical products, logistics and technological services. By this time, Kazire will be a household name in Sub-Saharan Africa.