Czech Republic: Pivovar Ostravar to start shipping beer to Italy

Pivovary Staropramen-owned Pivovar Ostravar is to emerge Italy as the second EU export market, after the brewery started exporting beer in UK in late 2004, selling its beers in more than 1,000 outlets.

Pivovar Ostravar has an annual capacity of 500,000 hl of beer and is located in northern Moravia

The brewery is based in Ostravar, northern Moravia, and produces around 500,000 hectolitres of beer a year. InBev-owned Pivovar Staropramen controls nearly 14% of the Czech beer market and competes on the domestic market with Plzensky Prazdroj which has the largest beer sales in the Czech Republic and exports beer to almost 50 countries all over the world.

23 August, 2006