Poland: Kompania Piwowarska is planning to increase its production by 25%

The country's leading brewer Kompania Piwowarska (KP) is planning to expand its production.

"We have planned implementing projects worth z�.280 million for the next four years. We want to increase production in our brewery in Tychy so that the aggregate output of both Tychy and Pozna� based plants would rise from the present 12 million hl-a-year to 15 million hl-a-year," said KP managing director Karl Lippert.

KP is a Polish subsidiary of SABMiller company, based in South Africa and present on the London and Johannesburg bourses. Currently SABMiller controls 35% of the beer market in Poland, against 18% in 1995 when it entered Poland. "In Poland our profit makes up 75% of the total profit of the whole sector," said Lippert.

During the last accounting year that ended on April 30th 2004 KP posted z�.422 million net profit. Its recent results are to be revealed on May 23rd.