OREANDA-NEWS. On 19 May 2009 was announced, that Belarus’ OAO Olivaria, a brewery based in the city of Minsk, produced 2.117 million decaliters of beer in the first four months of 2009, a rise of 16.5% on the year, a representative in Belgospischeprom concern told.

In April, Olivaria made 478,000 decaliters of beer, down 14.3%.

Olivaria was using 90.7% of its capacities.

Beer offering in plastic bottles rose 22.5% to 1.494 million decaliters in January-April, in glass bottles increased 8.3% to 535,000 decaliters, and in kegs declined 14.6% to 88,000 decaliters.

The brewery accounted for 20.4% of Belarus’ beer production in the first two months, up 3.9 percentage points year-on-year.

Olivaria beer sales amounted to 1.716 million decaliters in January-April.

Olivaria was founded in 1864 and transformed into a joint stock company in 1994. In December 2006, Sweden’s BBH acquired a 30% stake in Olivaria by purchasing an additional issue of shares for U.S. USD 18.5 million.

Carlsberg A/S acquired a stake in Olivaria through a purchase of a BBH shareholding from Scottish&Newcastle.