Russia: Chelyabinsk brewery “Vena” doubles production capacities
Cheliabinsk brewery “Vena” has organized large festivities dedicated to the inauguration of new production capacities on June 08, which will allow the company to double production of non-alcohol beer to 4.5 million hl of beer per year. “Baltika” brewery which now is proceeding with its merge with “Vena”, “Pikra” and “Yarpivo” will send its top-managers to attend to this event. Inheriting the name and the tradition of a 1872 brewery, “Vena” is our days one of the leading brewers in North-East and Ural regions.
Continuing the production of traditional well known in this region brands like “Uralskii Master”, “Chelyabinskoe” and “Tri Tolstyaka”, the brewer is starting to brew beer from “Baltika” and “Yarpivo” brand portfolio, including “Baltika №0 Non-alcoholic”, “Arsenalinoie”, “Leningradskoe”, “Jiguliovskoie” and “Yarpivo”. The brewer intends to begin production of 32 new items in 2006.
The brewery has spent US$38 investing in increasing production power. Company’s experts estimate that invested sums will be returned in 2.5 years. In the meantime, investments are still to be put in this project: some US$9 are to be invested in company’s logistics, production and quality development projects. On overall, during the last 6 years, investments for modernization and reconstruction of “Vena” brewery exceeded US$93.
“Vena” director Sergey Fomicev said: ”Modernization of the facility provided 200 new workplaces. Besides, we plan to significantly increase tax deduction to Chelyabinsk budget to RUR570 million in 2006.”
“Baltika Brewery’s” board attendants have been represented by CEO Anton Artemiev and its deputies Alexander Dedegkaev, Oleg Burhanov and Daniel Briman. “Vena” CEO Ivan Kudriumov, Cheliabinsk region Governor Andrei Kosilov and its first deputy Vladimir Diatlov also populated the list of official participants to this event.
Heads of large equipment producing companies from Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Tiumeni, Perm and Nizhny Taigil were among invited guests. Executives from Ziemann, Huppman, and Alfa-Laval-leaders in the field of brewing which supplied “Vena” with the necessary equipment- were guest of honor to this festivity.
“Vena” JSC owns two breweries in Saint-Petersburg and Chelyabinsk with a cumulative industrial potential of 7.5 million hl of beer per year. Brands like “Nevskoie”, “Uralskii Master” and licensed brewing of “Tuborg” and “Kronenbourg 1664” represent the company’s flagmanship. The company’s share of the Russian beer market totaled 4.6 percent in 2005.
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