Strzelec brewery buys Gornoslaskie factories in Rybnik

Brewery Browary Strzelec bought brewing plants belonging to Browary Gornoslaskie in Rybnik for zl. 9 million. Strzelec president Adam Brodowski said the total cost of the acquisition should be close to zl. 20 million after an additional zl. 11 million is spent on modernizing the Rybnik plants. "The whole liability for acquiring plants from Browary Gornoslaskie has already been paid," the company said in a statement on yesterday. Browary Gornoslaskie is in the process of being liquidated but is still producing about 220,000 hectoliters a year. The maximum output is estimated to be 250,000 hectoliters. Strzelec plans to sell about 300,000 hectoliters of beer this year, which would be an increase of 126,000 hectoliters compared to last year. Strzelec estimates in 2001 it will sell around 500,000 hectoliters. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 1, 13) M.M.