This location lies approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi), by road, northeast of Jinja, the nearest large town.

[2] Kakira is located approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi), by road, east of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country.

[7] Kakira Sugar Works possesses its own social infrastructure : free schools for employees' children, roads, hospitals, staff housing...[8] In 1920, the Vithaldas Haridas & Company, under the management of Muljibhai Madhvani, a twenty-six-year-old Indian-born Ugandan businessman, entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist, purchased 800 acres (3.2 km2) of land, in Kakira, between Jinja and Iganga, for the purpose of starting a sugar factory.

As of November 2013[update], Kakira Sugar Works Limited had gone through a USh 191 billion (about US$75 million) factory expansion and upgrade.

USh 76.5 billion (about US$30 million), was raised through a 10-year corporate bond on the Uganda Securities Exchange, and the remainder was sourced from local banks.