Lech Brewery Wielkopolski

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Lech

Type	Beer
Country of origin	Poland
Alcohol by volume	5.2 %
Style	Pale lager
Website	www.lech.pl

Lech Browary Wielkopolski (Lech Breweries of Greater Poland) - big industrial brewery in Poznań, the production capacity of 7.5 million hl. The plant is owned by Kompania Piwowarska SA.

History

Lech Brewery Poznan

Modern brewing plant in Poznań was built between 1975-1980. In 1984 malthouse was added. By 1992, along with other brewers was part of Wielkopolskie Zakłady Piwowarsko-Słodownicze SA, but after 1992 it became the company's main production facility - Lech Browary SA. In 1993, the ministry has decided to privatize the ownership of the brewery. As a result of the tender a majority shareholder in the company was Euro Agro Centrum Poznań, owned by entrepreneur Jan Kulczyk.^[1]

In 1996, the brewery was taken over by South African Breweries, which in the same year, together with Jan Kulczyk purchased the Tyskie Brewery. Three years later, the two breweries were combined to form Kompania Piwowarska.

March 11, 2007 at the newly opened section of the brewery the world's biggest beer mug was erected and filled with Lech Pils beer. Setting a Guinness world record for the largest number of people drinking from one mug, which included a 4250 liters of beer. The establishment of the record was attended by 10,625 people.^[2]

References

↑ "Jan Kulczyk tworzy polskich czempionów". Wyborcza.biz. 2010-11-03.
↑ Lech Pils i rekord Guiness

External links

Centrum Wycieczkowe Lech

v t e Kompania Piwowarska SA (SABMiller subsidiary in Poland)

Lech Browary Wielkopolski (Poznań) - acquired 1995-1996	Lech Mocny Lech Pils^F Lech Premium

Browary Tyskie Górny Śląsk (Tychy) - acquired 1995-1996	Tyskie^F Tyskie Gronie Tyskie Książęce Dębowe Mocne Wojak Pilsner Urquell

Browary Dojlidy (Białystok) - acquired 2003	Żubr^F Dojlidy Classic Dojlidy Herbowe Dojlidy Jakt Dojlidy Karmel Dojlidy Magnat Dojlidy Mocne Dojlidy Porter Dojlidy Złote Dojlidy Pils

Tyskie Browary Książęce (Tychy) - acquired 2007	Dębowe Mocne

^FFlagship brands

v t e SABMiller breweries worldwide

Africa	South African Breweries (1895) Delta Corporation Zimbabwe Empresa Cervejas de N’GOLA⁵ (2007) Kgalagadi Breweries⁶ (1977) Botswana Breweries⁶ (1977) Accra Brewery⁷ (2007) Lesotho Brewing Company⁸ (1980)Chibuku Products Ltd

Europe	Grolsch Brewery (2008) Kompania Piwowarska (1995) Peroni Brewery (2005) Compañía Cervezera de Canarias (1990) Plzeňský Prazdroj (1999) Ursus Breweries (1998) Dreher Brewery (1993) Radegast Brewery (1999) Topvar Breweries (2006) SABMiller RUS (1998) TM Sarmat (2008)

North America	MillerCoors² (2007) - (Miller Brewing Company (2002) - Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company (1988) Henry Weinhard's³ (1999) Pabst Brewing Company⁴)

Oceania/Asia	Bluetongue Brewery¹ Harbin Brewery Group Fuyang City Snowland Brewery

South America	Backus and Johnston (2005) Bavaria Brewery (2005) Cerveceria Hondureña

Dates given are for the acquisition of each brewery subsidiary by SABMiller ¹Joint venture between SABMiller and Coca-Cola Amatil ²Joint venture between SABMiller (58%) and Molson Coors Brewing Company (42%) - established in 2007 ³The company contracts out brewing of three Henry Weinhard's beer brands to Full Sail Brewing Company ⁴The company is contract brewer for brands of beer and lager that are owned by Pabst Brewing Company ⁵45% equity interest and operational control by SABMiller ⁶40% equity stake and management control of both Kgalagadi Breweries (Pty) Limited (KBL) and Botswana Breweries (Pty) Limited (BBL) by SABMiller ⁷70% of the shares and a management contract by SABMiller ⁸Joint venture between the Lesotho National Development Corporation (51%), SAB (39%) and the Commonwealth Development Corporation (10%)

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