East African Breweries Plc
NNSEKE:EABL276.00
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-3.00
(-1.08%)
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KE0000000216
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- CEO
- Jane W. Karuku
- Full Time Employees
- 1,608
- Sector
- Distribution services
- Industry
- Food distributors
- Address
- Nairobi Kenya
- IPO Date
- Apr 24, 1995
- Website
- eabl.com
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- East African Breweries Plc is a Kenya-based branded beverage holding company engaged in the brewing, distilling, packaging, marketing, and distribution of beer, spirits, and adult non-alcoholic beverages across East Africa and select international export markets. The company operates through three principal product categories: Beer, Spirits, and Adult Non-Alcoholic Drinks (ANADs). Its commercial product offerings include mainstream, premium, and value lagers, stouts, and ales sold under proprietary and licensed brand names such as Tusker, Tusker Malt, Tusker Lite, Pilsner, WhiteCap, Balozi, Bell Lager, Serengeti Premium Lager, Senator Keg, and Guinness; distilled spirits across value, mainstream, premium, and reserve classifications comprising whiskies, gins, vodkas, rums, and liqueurs marketed under brands including Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, Baileys, Gilbey's, Gordon's, Kenya Cane, Chrome, Triple Ace, and Uganda Waragi; ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages including Smirnoff Ice and Tusker Cider; and non-alcoholic malt and adult refreshment beverages including Alvaro and Malta Guinness. In addition to beverage manufacturing, the company engages in agricultural raw-material sourcing, barley malting, and glass packaging operations through dedicated supply-chain subsidiaries. The company operates an integrated network of breweries, distilleries, malting facilities, and distribution hubs across its core geographic markets of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, while exporting to regional markets including South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. East African Breweries Plc conducts its primary operating activities through regional subsidiaries including Kenya Breweries Limited, Uganda Breweries Limited, Serengeti Breweries Limited, United Distillers Vintners (Kenya) Limited, East African Maltings Limited, and East African Breweries (South Sudan) Limited. Founded in 1922, East African Breweries Plc is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and maintains public listings on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, the Uganda Securities Exchange, and the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange. In recent corporate developments, Japanese beverage conglomerate Asahi Group Holdings reached an agreement to acquire the approximately 65 percent majority shareholding in East African Breweries Plc from Diageo Plc for approximately 2.3 billion USD, facilitating Asahi's strategic operational expansion into the African market while retaining EABL's public listings across regional securities exchanges. The transaction secured required antitrust clearances and takeover exemptions from regional regulators across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, including conditional operational approvals from the Competition Authority of Kenya. Operationally, the company has accelerated capital investments in sustainable manufacturing infrastructure, including biomass-powered steam plants and localized water stewardship partnerships, while expanding product innovations within flavored malt beverages and local-origin mainstream spirits.