Belarus: Lidskoe Pivo’s exports up 36% last year

In 2013, OAO Lidskoe Pivo increased the export of beer by 36%, Audrius Miksys, managing director at Lidskoe Pivo, said in an interview to BelTA on March 19.

“Last year was probably the best in the 130-year history of Lidskoe Pivo brewery,” he said. Thanks to modernization, the sales increased by 11% from a year earlier. Beer export surged by 36%, that of kvass by 65%.

Lidskoe Pivo held about 20.5% of the Belarusian beer market in 2013. Sales on the domestic market went up by 9.5% though the beer market shrank by 3%. Lidskoe Pivo sold 72 million litres of beer domestically and 14 million litres internationally.

Founded in 1876, the Lidskoe Pivo brewery was transformed into a joint stock company in 2000.

21 March, 2014