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3G Capital burst onto the business scene a decade ago when it spent billions to buy America’s old-school food companies, including Heinz and Burger King, and then relentlessly cut costs, including mass layoffs, to create efficient production machines.
SABMiller has announced a $40-million investment in a new 260,000 hectolitre brewery in Okahandja, Namibia (71kms north of Windhoek) as part of its strategy to expand its operations across Africa. The company expects to break ground on the new site in early April this year...
SABMiller is taking its African beer brand, Chibuku, to ten countries across the continent, as part of its strategy to produce more affordable beer for lower-income consumers while taking market share from the “informal” alcohol sector, the brewer has said. ...
Robust economic growth, urbanisation and consumers aspiring to the better things in life point towards the African dream at last being realised. For brewers this combination is creating a dream market just starting to realise its huge potential, notes a new Financial...
SABMiller planned to invest up to $2.5 billion (R19.7bn) in the rest of Africa over the next five years to build and revamp breweries, the beer maker’s regional head has said, as it looks to slake rising demand for beer in the fast-growing continent....
The Economist looks at how brewers are racing to capture beer drinkers among Africa’s growing middle class.
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A new group chief brewer has been appointed at SABMiller to replace the present one, Barry Axcell, who plans to retire in July, the company reports....
Australian beer giant Foster's has accepted an improved takeover offer worth Aus$9.9-billion from SABMiller. The group, whose leading lager brands include Corona and Foster's, had in August rejected a hostile bid of Aus$9.51-billion from SABMiller.
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SABMiller CE Graham Mackay says ‘it’s early days’ in the pursuit of Fosters, but the company may have to increase its offer that failed to impress the Australian brewer’s board. This commentary by The Economist...
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From its first brewery in Braamfontein, Johannesburg in 1895, SABMiller has become the most successful multinational company to originate from the African continent. With sales of US$28bn last year and a fat operating margin of 17,8%,...
“Levitt’s law” — an often-quoted 1980s thesis by Harvard Business Review editor Ted Levitt — argues international brands will always trump locals. But not apparently with beer. A great article from Financial Mail on SABMiller's approach to beer branding and marketing....
Three years after Radical Waters pioneered the supply of electrochemically-activated water (ECA) technology as ground- breaking green technology for cleaning in place (CIP) applications in the carbonated soft drink (CSD) Industry, the company reports it has satisfied the stringent requirements of SABMiller and achieved proven...
SABMiller Africa has announced that it will invest over $100 million in building a new greenfield brewery in Onitsha, in South Eastern Nigeria, upping its presence in the Heineken-dominated Nigerian beer market.
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