The plants, belonging to SUN Interbrew Ukraine, incorporating most of Ukrainian brewing enterprises, increased beer production by 24.8 % up to 434.87 million litres in January-September this year in comparison with the same period of 2002, Interfax-Ukraine news agency informed. In September the company produced 4.354 million dekalitres of beer - 20.7 % up from September 2002. "SUN Interbrew Ukraine" owns Kharkov-based brewery "Rogan'", Chernigov "Desna" and Nikolaev "Yantar". In the 2nd quarter of 2003 the company's share in Ukrainian market of beer increased to 33.8 % against 30.6 % in the same period last year.

Company "SUN Interbrew" was established in spring 1999 by Belgian Interbrew and international financial and investment group SUN for work in the markets of Russia and Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian branches of the company own 34.25 % share of "SUN Interbrew". The rest of the shares are in free turnout in the stock market.

10 October, 2003