India: UK's leading Cobra beer brand is to open three more breweries in India in the coming months

The manufacturers of UK's leading Cobra brand of beer will open three more breweries in India in the coming months, the Press Trust Of India posted on September 24.

Without giving details of the exact locations of the three breweries, the NRI founder and Chief Executive of Cobra Beer Lord Karan Bilimoria said they were being set up in north, west and east of the country.

The group is already running a brewery in Mount Shivalika. "Mount Shivalika, which commenced production in January last year, has already won Gold medal at the Monde Selection - World Quality Awards in Brussels - for its quality of products.

Now we have signed up three more breweries and all of them will commence production in another couple of months," he said. In addition, he planned to have a Greenfield plant in his place of birth, Hyderabad.

Lord Bilimoria, who is also the Chairman of the India-British Partnership Network for the last three years, expressed optimism about the outcome of the India-UK Investment Summit, on Oct 11 in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his British counterpart Tony Blair will participate.

"There will be some announcements" at the end of the summit which will be attended among others by Arun Sarin, Chief Executive of the British-based global mobile telecommunication's company, Vodafone Group Plc.

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