AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Heineken beer can finally be making in Myanmar, the former Burma. The brewer this weekend has opened a new brewery in the Southeast Asian country. The complex employs more than 200 people and accounts for the production of 330,000 hectoliters of beer per year.
Actually, Heineken would already in 1996 a brewery in the country. But that was at the last moment because of the controversial military dictatorship in the country. Heineken departed to avoid reputational damage. Meanwhile, the political situation has improved and major Western companies turn back.
Heineken Myanmar is an interesting growth market. There are more than 53 million people.
The new brewery is located near Rangoon, the largest city in the country. Heineken runs the complex in cooperation with the local brewer ABC. Heineken beer just will next be made a local beer there called Regal Seven. The construction was $ 60 million involved, converted nearly 54 million
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