Picfare Industries Limited
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Founded Date January 1, 1900
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Sectors Production
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Posted Jobs 2
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Company Description
Picfare Industries Limited is Uganda’s premier paper conversion, stationery manufacturing, and commercial printing company. Founded in 1981 by the Joban Group, the household brand has spent over four decades serving as the leading producer of scholastic and office supplies in East Africa. The enterprise operates its corporate administrative marketing division out of Picfare House on Plot 37 Jinja Road in Kampala, while anchoring its massive industrial production at the Kampala Business and Industrial Park in Namanve alongside its regional 143-acre flagship complex in Njeru.
The primary market footprint of Picfare Industries centers on its expansive scholastic division, which directly supplies top-tier stationery to over 20 million students across the African continent. Its product line includes high-durability exercise books, mathematical sets, ruled writing pads, carbonless duplicating paper, and drawing materials customized for all economic demographics. Backed by presidential directives prioritizing local manufacturing, the Ugandan government heavily relies on Picfare to eliminate dependency on foreign stationery imports for its ministries, departments, and public educational institutions.
Beyond basic paper transformation, the entity has aggressively diversified into heavy industrial commercial services and stands as the region’s first government-approved Security Printing Company. Equipped with advanced, state-of-the-art 10-color flexographic presses, the company designs and prints unique high-security documents, corporate labels, self-adhesive paper, and flexible aluminum packaging for multinational financial institutions and major manufacturers. In response to growing consumer demands, the firm expanded its brand portfolio by launching Pic Hygiene, a dedicated consumer care division manufacturing domestic tissue products and sanitary items.
As an economic pillar employing hundreds of local professionals directly, Picfare integrates structured corporate social responsibility and strict anti-counterfeit measures to protect Ugandan consumers. The company frequently deploys tracking systems to dismantle black-market rings replicating fake scholastic materials that jeopardize student performance. Backed by a dynamic pre-press studio and automated high-speed binding infrastructure, Picfare is aggressively scaling its cross-border export networks to capture emerging consumer markets in South Sudan, Burundi, and Eastern Kenya.