Foreign buyer may be Strzelec Breweries way out of Perla Breweries stake

Strzelec Breweries, which currently owns 48% of Perla Breweries' shares, is trying to decide what they will do with that stake. Strzelec Breweries president Adam Brodowski said three scenarios are being taken into consideration. First, is to sell the stake to Hubert Gierowski who already holds about 50% of Perla's shares. Second, is to sell it to a foreign brewery. Third, is to keep the stake and to try to take majority ownership. However it seems most probable the Strzelec is to sell the stake to a western investor. Austrian Brau-Union which owns a whole group of breweries, and Okocim Breweries owner, Carlsberg, which wants to maintain third position on the Polish market (after Zywiec Group and Kompania Piwowarska), seem to be interested in the stake. Brodowski does not exclude the possibility of a connection between Strzelec Breweries and a foreign investor. (Puls Biznesu, page 5)