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Sierra Leone Brewery Limited

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Key people
  
Willy Ngana (MD)

Headquarters
  
Freetown

Number of employees
  
125

Website
  
www.slbrewery.com

Founded
  
16 March 1963

Parent organization
  
Heineken Holding

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Products
  
Beer, The brewing, marketing and selling of Lager, Stout and Malt Drink)

Brands
  
Star, Maltina, Heineken, Guinness, Mutzig

Owner
  
Heineken (83.15%)Guinness (11.59%)Paterson Zochonis (3.02%)Sierra Leoneans (2.24%)

Heineken and United African Company (UAC) began construction on the Sierra Leone Brewery Limited in October 1961 in Wellington Industrial Estate in Freetown and the first brew was mashed-in on the 23 November 1962. The first brand to be brewed was Star Lager.

Contents

During the 1997 Military Coup the brewing stopped for six months after the brewery was ransacked, and on the 6 January 1999 the rebel forces looted the brewery stopping production for one and a half years.

Products

  • Star Lager - Pale Lager (launched in 1962)
  • Heineken Lager (launched 1964)
  • Guinness Foreign Extra Stout 7.5% ABV (launched in 1967)
  • Mützig Lager (October 2013)
  • Maltina (Alcohol-free)

    • Community investment

    In 2006 a program was started to encourage local farmers to grow sorghum as part of a local sourcing drive. The current target of the local sourcing program is to achieve receive 60% of raw materials from within Africa.

    References

    Sierra Leone Brewery Limited Wikipedia
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