- CEO
- Folasope Babasola Aiyesimoju
- Full Time Employees
- 2,946
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: major diversified
- Address
- Lagos Nigeria
- IPO Date
- Aug 11, 1995
- Business
- UAC of Nigeria PLC is a diversified holding company that operates across consumer goods, agriculture, industrial coatings, and hospitality sectors in Nigeria and the broader West African region. Founded in 1879 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the company operates through four principal business segments: Packaged Food and Beverages, Animal Feeds and Other Edibles, Paints, and Quick Service Restaurants. The Packaged Food and Beverages segment manufactures and distributes packaged snacks, ready-to-drink fruit juices, value-added dairy products, ice cream, and bottled water under brand names including Gala, Chivita, Hollandia, Capri-Sun, Supreme, Funtime, and Swan; the Animal Feeds and Other Edibles segment produces poultry feeds, aquaculture feeds, livestock feed concentrates, refined vegetable oils, and breakfast cereals under the Grand, Vital Feed, Aquamax, and BestMate brands through subsidiaries Grand Cereals Limited and Livestock Feeds PLC; the Paints segment, operated via Chemical and Allied Products (CAP) PLC, manufactures and distributes decorative paints, industrial coatings, and protective marine finishes under the Dulux, Sandtex, Caplux, and Hempel brands; and the Quick Service Restaurants segment manages and franchises fast-food retail outlets and bakeries under the Mr. Bigg's and Debonairs Pizza banners through UAC Restaurants Limited. In recent corporate developments, UAC of Nigeria PLC expanded its consumer staples footprint by completing the 100 percent equity acquisition of C.H.I. Limited from The Coca-Cola Company in October 2025, integrating prominent fruit juice and dairy brands Chivita and Hollandia into its packaged food operations to drive category diversification and scale. Concurrently, the group has advanced its strategic transformation into a lean investment holding company by enhancing subsidiary-level governance, internalizing audit and compliance structures, optimizing nationwide distribution infrastructure, and restructuring operating unit balance sheets to bolster operational resilience.