Mehbub Alam's projects included the construction of Kigo Prison and Nakivubo Channel.

[1] In 2019, the Group announced the construction of a new sugar factory in Kassanda district, Uganda.

The Alam Group is headquartered and runs the majority of companies in Uganda, where it directly employs over 3,000 people.

It also maintains subsidiary companies in the neighboring countries of Kenya and Rwanda.

The Group is involved in steel manufacture, aluminium processing, agricultural implements, footwear, sugar manufacture, electricity generation, floriculture, real estate development and management, tourist lodges and motels and the manufacture of liquid petroleum gas, among other investments.