And now the tyre giants have entrenched their grip in that particular industry by unveiling their newest dealership of the world-acclaimed Bridgestone brand.
Under the City Tyres subsidiary, Mandela last week announced that they had secured the right to trade the Bridgestone brand of tyres at a customer-interaction dinner at their MAZ Complex in Kampala last week.
The function was graced by the chairman of Mandela Group Hajj Omar Ahmed, former Finance ministers; Gerald Ssendawula and Maria Kiwanuka, the honorary counsel of Canada to Uganda Sarah Lubanga and Willis Bashaasha, the director of manifesto implementation in the President’s Office.
Others were Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited project implementations manager Eng William Nkemba and Bridgestone boss Giovanni Tolasi.
With Bridgestone, Mandela has added to their list of premium tyre brands that they are distributing in the Ugandan market. They have Pirelli, Kumho, MRF and Linglong.
“City Tyres have made this decision to give our customers a wider choice when buying tyres,” Herbert Bashaasha, the Mandela Group marketing manager told The Observer.
“Bridgestone is a world-class brand that comes in a wide range of sizes and patterns that are suitable for the Ugandan terrain.”
Mandela Group of Companies own City Oil, City Tyres, Café Javas, Mandela Millers, CJ’s, Mandela AutoSpares, City Retread and The FoodHub.
Sendawula urged Ugandans to support the local economy by embracing the various products of Mandela Group. He also reiterated that the probable or potential rise of commodity prices in the country sooner or later would be owed to factors well and truly beyond the control of Ugandan entrepreneurs.
“When there are issues like war like the one presently happening between Russia and Ukraine, these are factors for which any business would have no control over,” he noted.
