Beer Sales: Grupa Zywiec, Kompania Piwowarska, Okocim, in that order

In May of this year, the nation's leading brewer Grupa Zywiec, according to unofficial data, sold about 840,000 hectoliters of beer produced in its Zywiec, Lezajsk, Warka and EB breweries. In the same period its biggest competitor Kompania Piwowarska, controlling Lech and Tychy breweries, managed to sell 842,000 hectoliters, and thus total sales of the two top beer producers in the first four months of 2001 remained roughly at the same level, with Zywiec ahead by about 200,000 hectoliters. Okocim brewery, which follows in third place, recorded sales of 200,000 hectoliters in May. Over the first five months of the year, it sold about 650,000 hectoliters, an impressive performance of 25% growth over last year, enabling the brewery, controlled by Danish Carlsberg, to strengthen its market position enviably. The brewing group controlled by Austrian Brau Union, consisting of Browary Warszawskie, Van Pur and Kujawiak breweries, holds fourth place with 145,500 hectoliters sold in May, and 570, 000 hectoliters in the first five months of the year. (Puls Biznesu, p. 3) A.D.