Accra Jan. 31, – The Accra
Brewery Limited (ABL), one of the largest and leading breweries in Ghana has
acquired a 25 million-dollar plant to boost the production of varieties of
non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages.
The plant has the capacity to
produce over 40,000 bottles of beverages daily.
Speaking to the media in Accra on
Wednesday after a familiarisation tour at the facility, Ms Adowoa Arthur, ABL
Legal and Corporate Affairs Director, said the company would inaugurate the
equipment by mid-year to augment its operations.
The tour was also to afford
journalist the opportunity to interact with management and understand the
operations of ABL, now a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev, based in
Belgium one of the World’s leading brewer.
Ms Arthur explained that the new
plant, equipped with modern technology gives the company the operational
ability to introduce more brands to satisfy consumers.
According to her the new facility
has modern robotics for cleaning bottles, designing and labelling products
among others.
“With the new equipment, we are
able to increase our production levels to meet the demands of our consumers,”
she added.
Touching on the Food and Drugs
Authority’s (FDA) ban on advertisements on alcoholic beverages, Ms Arthur said
ABL was in compliance with that the directives.
Additionally, she said her
company was still holding discussions with the FDA and other retailers on
handling and consumption of their products.
She said there were ongoing
discussions with the authority and “we are working with the timeline as
proposed by the authority, hence, if there are any setbacks, management would
speak directly with them but as at now a total ban on our products is not
something that is working”.
On taxes, the ABL Legal and
Corporate Affairs Director said management has complied with all existing taxes
and would comply with others such as the excise stamp tax.
Ms Joscelyne Ahiable, the
Communications Manager, ABL said in 2016, a new company; Anheuser-Busch (AB)
InBev, took over ABL, a subsidiary of SABMiller as a new owners.
She said under the new ownership,
ABL was more focus and more determined than before to be the continued and
preferred beverage company in Ghana.
“With ABInBev, we are committed
and more driven to satisfy our consumers and will continue to provide support
to the various communities through our ‘Better Wold Initiative’,” she added.
She said through their ‘Better
World Initiative’ management organises series of activities for the communities
such as free health screening and it formed part of their holistic dream of
impacting every corner of the country, through their business.
He said in bringing people
together for a better world, the company provided two communities in the Upper
East Region with Solar powered furrow irrigation systems as part of their Eagle
Farmer Project initiative.
“So far, we have impacted 15,000
farmers through the project initiated in 2015 and hope to affect 30,000 farmers
by 2020,” she added.
GNA
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