Created in October 1992, Paramount Dairies Ltd (PDL) started as a small family business with a focus of producing fine Uganda cheese. It has experienced steady growth over the last fifteen years, emerging as a leading dairy brand in Uganda and some regional markets. The company approach to cheese-making is one reliant on local resources and skills; a living demonstration that dairy-processing can be an affordable rural-based industry. Today, PDL produces more than 8 cheese-types in a variety of packaging as well as several cream products; all now found in the major supermarkets of the capital and in many of the larger towns of Uganda. As a social-developer, PDL employs, trains and engages more than 50 men and women, mostly rural-based, and supports dozens of small-scale dairy farmers in a just and fair milk market.

• Seeks to provide good quality reasonably priced dairy products, using fundamentally local expertise, manpower, and resources.
• Create a fair milk market and give timely payments for dairy farmers and moreover incentives to those who do best practices and provide quality milk.
• Nurtures a work environment that awards learning, promotes the sharing of skills and gives equal gender opportunity.
• Serve the dairy industry as a whole: through demonstration of innovative processing ideas and through participation of the Uganda Dairy Processors Association.
• To enrich the common good by making available a range of safe nutritious dairy products.

As the East Africa economic integration becomes a reality, both Kigali (capital of Rwanda) and Kampala (capital of Uganda) will provide constant growth markets for dairy products. To meet these needs, PDL will undertake the following:

• To erect on its own property in Mbarara Town, a permanent dairy processing plant by 2011.
• To evolve from its existing 50,000lt/ monthly processing level to one of 150,000lt/monthly
• To start the production of yoghurt and a nutritious whey drink as well as widen its' present range of cheese and cream products.
• To foster a mutual beneficial relationship with the Mbarara University of Science and Technology to enhance the sharing and development of dairy processing skills in Uganda.