Vietnam: Vietnam’s largest brewer to build new plant

Vietnam’s leading beer maker, Saigon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage (Sabeco), said it will build a Saigon-Ninh Thuan beer factory in south-central province of Ninh Thuan, The Saigon Daily reported on April, 15.

The new facility will have a total production output of 50 million litres of beer annually.

With total capital of VND680 billion (US$36 million), the plant is expected to meet distribution and consumption demand for Sabeco products in the south-central region, a company representative said.

Construction of the Saigon-Ninh Thuan factory is part of Sabeco’s overarching development strategy and once complete, the factory will create jobs for many people in the province, the representative added.

Sabeco now sells more than 500 million litres of beer a year, mostly locally. It targets producing 700 million litres of beer on its own by 2010.

16 April, 2010