Nigerian Breweries Case Study

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Nigerian breweries will be moving to Malaysia to join the brewery industry there and expand the business firstly, a brief introduction on “Nigerian breweries”. Nigerian breweries were founded on the 16th November 1946 in Nigeria. The company was incorporated in 1946 and in June 1949, they registered a landmark when the first bottle of STAR lager beer rolled off the Lagos Brewery bottling lines. Nigerian breweries make alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Non-alcoholic: “star larger beer, Gulder larger beer, legend extra stout, Heineken larger, Goldberg larger, life continental beer, star life larger, ace passion apple stark, 33 export larger, Williams dark ale, turbo king stout, More larger, breezer, ace roots, star randler, ace rhythm, star triplex, strongbow cider. And the non-non- alcoholic are as follows: Maltina, AMSTEL MALTA, Fayrouz, climax, Malta gold, himalt, and maltex”.
Nigerian Breweries is the most funded quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), it is also the first Nigerian company in any sector to declare N12 billion in Polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) and the first company in Nigerian history to declare a dividend of N8 billion …show more content…

therefore, at inception, it was 100 percent foreign owned. By the early 1950s, when it began operating fully, some indigenous traders that were involved with its products as at that time were invited to become shareholders. Under the indigenization policy of the early 1970s the foreign shareholders were forced to sell a significant proportion of their holdings. Today, the company is 60 percent Nigerian owned and 40 per cent foreign owned. The 60 percent of the Nigerian stake is held by the company employees and members of the public, while the 40 per cent of the foreign ownership is split almost equally between CWA Holdings Limited (for Unilever) and Heineken Brouwerijen

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