Who owns Uhai?
Uhai is owned by Bakhresa (Tanzania).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Bakhresa Group — divisions, subsidiaries and brands. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Bakhresa Group reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
- Origin
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Bottled water
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Uhai
Uhai is Bakhresa's bottled water brand, sold in a range of sizes running from 350ml bottles up to 6 and 13 litre containers for home and office dispensers. It is one of the two brands Bakhresa Food Products names as its own, alongside Azam, and the company holds ISO 22000 food safety certification for the plants that fill it.
Ownership timeline of Uhai
Where Uhai sits in Bakhresa
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Bakhresa
Bakhresa controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in bottled water, and who owns them
The 123 brands in bottled water on Brandtree belong to 74 owners. The largest is Spadel, with 5.
About the owner: Bakhresa
Bakhresa is a privately held company headquartered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, founded in 1975. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control.
Bakhresa Group is a Tanzanian family conglomerate that began in 1975 when Said Salim Awadh Bakhresa opened the Azam Restaurant, and now runs more than thirty subsidiaries across nine countries and fifteen divisions. Its flagship company, Said Salim Bakhresa & Company, holds the largest wheat milling and storage capacity in East Africa, much of it built from mills bought in Tanzania's 1990s privatisation programme. Almost everything the group sells to the public carries the Azam name, whether it is flour, biscuits, ice cream, juice, satellite television or a mobile money wallet, which makes Azam one of the most widely stretched brands in the region.
🇹🇿 Uhai and other Tanzanian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 18 brands that began in Tanzania. 5 of them (28%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Uhai is not one of them.
- Masafi — METL Group 🇹🇿
- Serengeti — EABL 🇰🇪
- Air Tanzania — Air Tanzania 🇹🇿
- Auric Air — Auric Air 🇹🇿
- Jahazi Restaurant — Gulf Hotels Group 🇧🇭
- Mwananchi — Nation Media Group 🇰🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Uhai?
The parent company of Uhai is Bakhresa, a privately held company headquartered in Tanzania.
Is Uhai Tanzanian?
Yes. Uhai originated in Tanzania and its owner, Bakhresa, is also headquartered in Tanzania.
Is Uhai still owned by Bakhresa?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Uhai is still owned by Bakhresa. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Bakhresa Group — divisions, subsidiaries and brands — Bakhresa Group, Official document; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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