The company expects to break ground on the new site in early April this year and the brewery is expected to be operational in the latter half of 2014.
After some delay, the company recently received approval for the re-zoning of 7.2 hectares of land in Okahanjda, where the brewery will be built, and transfer of the land is expected in the next few weeks.
SAB managing director Mauricio Leyva said the project had reached an important milestone: “We are most pleased that we are now going to be moving ahead with the construction of the brewery.
“The local brewery will not only enable us to make more of our key brands available to consumers in the Namibian market, but it will also make a meaningful contribution to the Namibian economy once it’s up and running.
“Jobs will be created, our environmental impact on the country will be reduced as we shift to returnable bottles, and we will build on our existing programmes to uplift the local community.”
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