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Nigeria<br />
LNG<br />
Limited<br />
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COSCHARIS GROUP<br />
Top 50 brands profile<br />
ultra-modern malting plant in Aba and<br />
Kaduna.<br />
Nigerian Breweries Plc has a rich portfolio<br />
of high quality brands: Star Lager Beer,<br />
Gulder lager, Maltina, Legend Extra Stout<br />
Heineken lager Fayrouz.Nigerian<br />
Breweries Plc has an increasing export<br />
business that dates back to 1986. The<br />
Company currently exports to the United<br />
Kingdom, European Union and the West<br />
African sub-region.<br />
As a major brewing concern, the<br />
company encourages the establishment<br />
of ancillary businesses. Many of these<br />
organizations and individuals depend<br />
largely on the company for their means<br />
o f l i v e l i h o o d . T h e s e i n c l u d e<br />
manufacturers of bottles, crown corks,<br />
labels, cartons, plastic crates and such<br />
service providers as hotels/clubs,<br />
Distributors, Transporters, Event<br />
Managers, Advertising and Marketing<br />
Communication Agencies etc. Nigerian<br />
Breweries Plc is a socially responsible<br />
corporate organization with a good track<br />
record of corporate social initiatives in<br />
identified and strategic areas. The<br />
C o m p a n y ' s C o r p o r a t e S o c i a l<br />
Responsibility is driven by a vision to<br />
always “Win with Nigeria”. Over the<br />
years, Nigerian Breweries Plc has been<br />
very active in supporting national<br />
development aspirations in line with the<br />
commitment to “Winning with Nigeria”.<br />
Nigerian Breweries Plc is the pioneer and acquired majority equity interests in Sona<br />
largest brewing company in Nigeria. S y s t e m s A s s o c i a t e s B u s i n e s s<br />
Incorporated in 1946, the company Management Limited, (Sona Systems)<br />
recorded a landmark when the first and Life Breweries Limited from<br />
bottle of STAR lager beer rolled off its Heineken N.V. This followed Heineken's<br />
Lagos Brewery bottling lines. In 1957, the acquisition of controlling interests in five<br />
company commissioned its second breweries in Nigeria from Sona Group in<br />
brewery in Aba. Kaduna Brewery was Sona Systems' two breweries in Ota and<br />
commissioned in 1963 while Ibadan Kaduna, and Life Breweries in Onitsha<br />
Brewery came on stream in 1982. In have now become part of Nigerian<br />
1993, the company acquired its fifth Breweries Plc, together with the three<br />
brewery in Enugu. In October 2003, a brands: Goldberg lager, Malta Gold and<br />
sixth brewery, sited at Ameke, in Enugu Life Continental lager.<br />
State was commissioned and christened<br />
Ama Brewery. Ama Brewery is today, the Thus, from the humble beginning in<br />
biggest and most modern brewery in 1946, the Nigerian Breweries now has<br />
Nigeria.<br />
eight operational breweries from which<br />
its high quality products are distributed<br />
In October 2011, Nigerian Breweries to all parts of Nigeria, in addition to the<br />
The company in 1994 established an<br />
Education Trust Fund with a take-off<br />
grant of N100 million to take more active<br />
part in the funding of educational and<br />
research activities in institutions of higher<br />
learning. This is in addition to its<br />
secondary and university scholarship<br />
programmes for children of its<br />
employees.Nigerian Breweries Plc<br />
sponsors various sporting events,<br />
football, athletics, tennis, cycling, chess,<br />
golf, squash, dart, Sailing and Ayo,<br />
among others. The aim is to develop<br />
Nigerian sportsmen and women to<br />
participate in national and international<br />
sports, and boost the sports profile.<br />
The company is also involved in the<br />
development of leadership, musical and<br />
movie talents, through various<br />
programmes.<br />
The<br />
Journal<br />
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