{"id":190516,"date":"2025-02-04T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-java-house-to-change-hands-for-fourth-time-in-12-years\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:44:53","slug":"uganda-java-house-to-change-hands-for-fourth-time-in-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-java-house-to-change-hands-for-fourth-time-in-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Java House to Change Hands for Fourth Time in 12 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">Kampala, Uganda \u2014 Kenyan coffee and casual dining chain, Java House, is set for its fourth ownership change in just 12 years. The current owner, London-based private equity firm Actis, has agreed to sell the brand to Alterra Capital and Phatisa Group, in a deal that remains undisclosed, according to a notice from the Malawi-based COMESA Competition Commission. However, the filing reveals that Mauritius-based Alterra Capital will hold a majority stake in the coffee chain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Actis first announced&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502040470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kampala, Uganda \u2014 Kenyan coffee and casual dining chain, Java House, is set for its fourth ownership change in just 12 years. The current owner, London-based private equity firm Actis, has agreed to sell the brand to Alterra Capital and Phatisa Group, in a deal that remains undisclosed, according to a notice from the Malawi-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":190517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7796,15935,7888,5110,34594,430,257,254,6599,4707,5114],"class_list":["post-190516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-fourth","tag-hands","tag-house","tag-java","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time","tag-uganda","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}