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South African Breweries (officially The South African Breweries Limited, informally SAB) is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016. [2]
Since 15 December 2017, it is a subsidiary of International Breweries Plc. [2] SABMiller made an initial investment of over US$100m in the Onitsha brewery which was commissioned on 30 August 2012. [3] In 2014 a decision was made to invest US$110 million to increase the current annual capacity from 700 000 to 2.1 million hectolitres.
Before acquiring SAB Miller, AB InBev had agreed to sell its interests in Snow to China Resources Beer (Holdings) Co for $1.6 billion to satisfy regulators. The deal closed on 12 October 2016. [12] SABMiller was the second-largest brewer in India and had joint ventures in Vietnam and Australia.
Kompania Piwowarska (which in Polish means "Brewing Company") is a brewing company established in Poland in 1999 as a result of the merger of two SABMiller owned Polish breweries, the Lech brewery in Poznań, and the Tyskie Górny Śląsk brewery in Tychy, which was founded in 1629. [17] The company also owns the Dojlidy Brewery in Białystok.
The new beer soon became popular amongst the prospectors of the gold rush, and in 1889 one of Johannesburg's early newspapers, The Digger's News, declared it "a phenomenal success." In 1895, on the success of Castle Lager, South African Breweries (SAB) was founded, with its head office being the Castle Brewery.
In 1975, the assets of Overseas Breweries Ltd. were taken over by the locally registered Accra Brewery Ltd. (ABL) to facilitate Ghanaian participation in the business. In October 2016, ABL became a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev ( ABInBev ) after the latter acquired controlling shares of ABL's former parent company, SABMiller Plc.
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (abbreviated as AB InBev) is the largest beer company in the world. [citation needed] It had 200 brands prior to the merger with SABMiller on October 10, 2016. [1] The combined ABInBev/SAB Miller entity has approximately 400 beer brands as of January 2017. [2] [3]
Local breweries operated by the black population, especially groups such as the Sotho, Zulu and Xhosa, have been brewing forms of sorghum beers long before any Europeans arrived. Umqombothi, from the Nguni languages (Xhosa and Zulu), is a traditional beer made in the Transkei from maize (corn), maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast, and water. Bantu beer