Austrian Brau Union eyes Van Pur, Kujawiak, and Browary Warszawskie

Austrian brewer Brau Union has announced it wants to incorporate Rzeszow-based Van Pur brewery into its holdings this year. The fusion is to consist of an exchange of Brau Union and Van Pur shares in a 1 to 100 proportion, and in order to make that possible Brau Union Polska plans to increase its base capital. The process of incorporation has already started, as Brau Union coordinator for marketing Janusz Karp detailed that both companies are implementing uniform systems of trade, marketing and purchasing. Brau Union also hopes that the Kujawiak brewery from Bydgoszcz as well as the Warsaw-based Browary Warszawskie will link with it in the near future. Brau Union Polska predicts that this year's combined production of its group of breweries will amount to 175 million hectoliters of beer. Such results could assure Brau Union fourth or even third place on the domestic beer market.(Puls Biznesu p.5) A.D.