Cuca beer
Cuca, Cuca BGI is a brand of beer manufactured by Companhia União de Cervejas de Angola (‘United Beer Company of Angola’)[1] in Angola.[2]
History
Cuca Beer was born in 1947, under the name CUCA-Companhia União de Cervejas de Angola, SARL, with a capital of 5,000 contos, being a daughter company of the Portuguese Central de Cervejas.[3]
On May 26, 1976, the Government of Angola confiscated and nationalized Cuca, after taking possession of the Commission for Restructuring the brewing industry.[4]
It is manufactured in Luanda[1] and in Catumbela, in the municipality of Lobito, Benguela province.[2] The Benguela production amounts to 60 000 bars per day.[2]
Gone are sixty-five years since the Company Union Beers Angola " CUCA " SARL was formed , but the story goes that it was only in February 1952 that the company began its operations , and exactly to May 5 this year , would be inaugurated , marking the beginning of a long success story that became the largest corporate group in Angola at the time.
" In fact , since 1965 , CUCA was ahead of an industrial conglomerate which , in addition to direct investments in a wide range of industrial pioneers in Angola , still held shareholdings in other companies not industrial . In total , CUCA controlled or held shares lower by about 45 companies in the industrial fabric of Angola. In this universe , only it employed about 3500 workers , "according to company history .
To get an idea of the scale of intervention of the company, had CUCA purpose is the production of beer , malt , ice, soft drinks , carbonated and food rations , among other activities , especially at this time , exactly in 1959 , the opening of a factory in the old city of Nova Lisboa (now Huambo ) and ownership of two warehouses , one in Lobito , in 1955 , and another in Benguela in 1960 .
From 1976 until the present day , CUCA underwent a series of transformations . Intervened by the Angolan state , for reasons too well known , and because there was a need to reverse the deteriorating economic and financial recorded soon after national independence , the state has taken substantive steps in order to recover the company . To remember that this situation was not much different from other brewers Angolan who were owned and controlled by BUCKTHORN , UEE ( entity holding the state to the brewing sector in Angola ) .
Years later , a decision by the State , then opens a contest in order to select an international company that could offer warranties and conditions of restoration and management of the unit CUCA - LUANDA , tender to which the Consortium presented BGI - SOBA ( Angolan company ) .
According to a company source , " then , as already expressed its intention to the competent authorities , BGI has come to part with 75% of the capital of the " SOBA " at that company became part of the Group BGI , which however, the April 15, 1994 , and for an initial period of five years, concludes a contract for Rehabilitation and Management for the recovery and revival of activity brewing this plant. The agreement lasted until December 31, 2005 . "
How succeeded privatization definitive CUCA Company-Union Beers Angola, SA '.
Exactly happened on January 1, 2006 , thus becoming a public limited company under private law , whose allocation of capital is represented as follows : State 1% , benefiting Action Golden , allowing , for example , veto certain decisions , act on issues such as the increase of capital , among other important interventions in the overall development of the company , the UCERBA , 36 % , whose shareholders Angolans ; group International BiH ( French ) and SOBA ( Company Law Angolan ) with 50 % .
These days , CUCA - Company union Beers Angola is therefore a law company based in Luanda . According to pray the statutes of this company that recovered so bold and insightful their place at the top of the industrial enterprises of the country , the main object of the company is the production of beers and released, however, it may take any other economic activities .
According to their current account from the group Castel 1994 , in addition to brand CUCA 31 cl and 50 cl bottled developed Youki 33 cl , as well as the cook in 50 liter kegs . In 1997 occurred a few innovations that continue to be successful in the Angolan market with the introduction of Youki canister , replacing the bottle . In 1998 two lines were installed fill PET bottle , allowing production of gas in 50 cl bottles , starting the filling of the American glue and consequences via the dropping of glass bottles white.
" Because there is a need to develop our business brewing for reasons of market demand , in early 2004 yield to Coca Cola Bottling Luanda , the equipment required for the manufacture of gas . Later this year , we stopped also with the production of CUCA in 50cl bottles , because we should have for the purpose of our production capacity of Sagres beer , for which we signed a license agreement with Central Beer in Portugal " , reveal our sources.
Always in search of the greatest successes , CUCA invested heavily in training their staff and the acquisition of equipment with the latest technology currently used in the brewing industry , having installed in February 2002 , the first line aimed at filling canned beer " CUCA "and" CASTEL " , 33 cl cans and other line filling barrels of 50 liters .
The remarkable journey as a top company in this industry segment , continued in 2005 with the installation of a line of ultra modern bottle filling and 2007/2008 , the installation of another filling line cans also more modern than the previous one and another bottle filling line , which allowed us to this date the release on the Angolan market for the first time CUCA beer in glass bottles of 31 cl disposable , with a new " design " , a bottle with a modern standard and commercial both for the domestic market but also to the external , with the aim focused on exports , which gave a picture of the developments in technology that has been implemented in CUCA , until today .
Within this dynamic, with the significant increase in production in 2009 , proceeded to the installation of a new line of ultra modern filling barrels of 10 l , 30 l and 50 liters with the new technology " FLAS PASTEURIZATION " , thus allowing the beer barrel were to become pasteurized.
To remember that the staff of the largest brewing company in the country is about 1,600 workers , 98 per cent and the remaining foreign nationals , thereby witnessing the efforts that have been made to develop both production capacity as maintaining a level of effectiveness that makes CUCA in the private domain , the first company in the country .
In Namibia
In Namibia, Cuca beer was illegal in the 1970s and 1980s, yet it was widely available in the northern parts of the country, in Ovamboland and Kavango. Bars there became known as “Cuca shops”. Around the time of Namibian independence, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance was said to have offered free beer in Cuca shops, in an attempt to lure voters to its side.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ANGOLA Acontece (August 2005). "CUCA e EKA apostam em expansão". Retrieved June 2010. Unknown parameter
|língua2=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 PORTAL das Empresas Governo de Angola (26 de novembro de 2008). "Fábrica de cerveja Cuca em Benguela vai aumentar produção anual". Retrieved June 2010. Unknown parameter
|língua2=ignored (help); - ↑ CENTRAL Cervejas e Bebidas. "Anos 1934/1959". Retrieved June 2010. Unknown parameter
|língua2=ignored (help) - ↑ CENTRAL Cervejas e Bebidas. "Década de 70". Retrieved June 2010. Unknown parameter
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