Brewer sinks more into Angola

On completion of the new plant, SABMiller said it would have invested around $250 million in upgrading or building new facilities across Angola in the space of 18 months.

“Production of clear beer will begin at the new Greenfield brewery in Luanda in northern Angola in October 2009.

“This $125m facility will produce approximately 50,000 hectolitres of clear beer and employ 500 people from the surrounding area,” SABMiller said.

This would take the total number of people employed by the brewing giant and its joint venture partner, Empresa Cervejas de N'gola, to more than 2000 across their five brewery and bottling facilities in Angola.

The new soft drink plant would see production beginning on three bottling lines, capable of producing 200,000 hectolitres per year.

“SABMiller has shown a strong commitment to staff training in the country and will have spent $2.5 million on ensuring employees at the new plant will meet the required proficiency levels upon opening,” the company stated.

It had also to date trained nearly 200 graduates on its apprentice scheme.

SABMiller's first investment in Angola came in 1997 prior to the end of the civil war in 2002.

It started managing Empresa de Cervejas Ngola in Lubango under a management contract with government in 1997 and rehabilitated the brewery during that year.

Source: Sapa

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