Kgalagadi Breweries Limited

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Trading name KBL Predecessor Prinz Brau Botswana Headquarters Gaborone, Botswana Number of locations 1		Industry Brewing, Beverage Revenue BWP 1,74 billion Founded 1970 Type Privately held company

Key people Batlang Mmualefe - Chairman Johan de Kok - CEO Owner SBHL - 60% SABMiller - 40%

Kgalagadi Breweries (Pty) Limited are brewers based in Gaborone, Botswana. They produce lager beers, traditional beers, bottled water and soft drinks under license. The brewery started out as Prinz Brau, with two brands, Prinz Brau and Prinz Deluxe.

Corporate timeline

1960's Botswana Breweries Limited is started in Francistown to brew Chibuku traditional beer.

1970s - Sechaba Brewery Holdings Limited (SBHL) was set up to hold investments in the beverage sector.

1977 - SAB acquires management control of KBL (40% equity stake). KBL begins bottling Coca-Cola products.

1989 - SBHL is listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange.

1995 - New soft drink bottling line built in Gaborone.

2009 - KBL launches St Louis Export.

2013 - Botswana Breweries Ltd, was amalgamated with KBL.

Botswana Breweries Limited

Botswana Breweries has four plants in Lobatse, Gaborone, Palapye and Francistown.

The products include

traditional opaque beer Chibuku - made from sorghum and maize.

Phafana (opaque beer)

non-alcoholic beverage Keone Mooka Mageu.

Product packs include a straight-sided screw-top 1 litre carton. A 750ml pack and a draught.

Ownership

The shares of Kgalagadi Breweries Limited are privately held. The shareholding in the company's stock as at December 31, 2012 was as depicted in the table below:

By virtue of its shareholding in Kgalagadi Breweries Limited and Sechaba Brewery Holdings of 40% and 16.8% respectively, SABMiller's total direct and indirect shareholding in Kgalagadi Breweries Limited and Botswana Breweries Ltd is 50.08%. This makes both companies subsidiaries of SABMiller and associates of Sechaba Brewery Holdings.

Alcohol levy

In 2008, Ian Khama proposed an alcohol levy of 70% to reduce alcoholism in Botswana, there was resistance and the levy was imposed at 30%. and by November 2009 this had the desired effect causing delines of 35% in lager sales volume and 14% in traditional beer sale volumes. In response to the negative statutory environment the brewery cut costs and maximised efficiencies. Non-alcoholic brands were developed to compensate for the fall in traditional brands. In six month report (September 2013) the levy was at 45% and the decrease in alcohol brands had dropped a further 8%. New brands developed include Source bottled water and Keone Mooka Mageu.

Brands

St Louis (1989) 3.5% ABV

St Louis Export 4.7% ABV

Castle Lager 5% ABV

Castle Lite 4% ABV

Ohlsson’s Lager

Lion Lager 5% ABV

Carling Black Label 5.5% ABV

Traditional Beers (Opaque beers)

Chibuku

Phafana

Non-alcoholic brands

Source Water - accredited by the Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS)

Bonaqua Still Water

Keone Mooka Mageu - a traditional fermented porridge

Soft Drinks

Coca-cola

Coke Zero

Fanta Orange

Fanta Grape

Fanta Pineapple

Sprite

Iron Brew

Ginger Stoney

Pine Nut

Minute Maid

Cream-Soda

Burn

Powerade

Kickstart is an entrepreneur development programme for 18- to 30-year-olds providing mentorship and training to over 107 young entrepreneurs, 80% of participants are still trading.

Project Tshelang (Stay alive) launched in 2001 aims to prevent new infections and provide employees and their families with awareness and counselling programs. There are currently 74 trained and active peer educators.

References

Kgalagadi Breweries Limited Wikipedia

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