The Russian beer maker, ZAO Moscow-Efes Brewery, a subsidiary of Efes Breweries International, has started brewing beer at its new brewery in Rostov-on-Don. About US$ 24.7 million were invested in the project. It is the thid Efes brewery to begin operations in the country and will have a capacity of 1 million hl per annum. The brewery plans to reach full capacity next year, producing the Efes Pilsener, Stary Melnik and Bely Medved brands. Efes’ analysts forecast in 2003 the new brewery will produce about 250 thousand hl of beer.

The construction of the brewery started in February 2002. Efes completely modernized and reorganized the production capacity of the Coca-Colla Rostov Bottlers plant.

03 October, 2003