India: United Breweries receives environmental clearance for greenfield brewery in Uttar Pradesh

United Breweries Limited has received environmental clearance for its proposed greenfield brewery in Uttar Pradesh, the company informed stock exchanges on March 18.

The clearance, granted on March 17, 2026, comes under the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), Uttar Pradesh, operating under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

The proposed facility will be set up at the Industrial Manufacturing & Logistics Cluster in Unnao, with an annual production capacity of 1.3 million hectolitres. The approval is subject to certain conditions, the company said in its filing.

The disclosure was made under Regulation 30 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.

The development follows earlier intimations made by the company in February and November 2025 regarding the project.

United Breweries said the intimation has been made to stock exchanges in the interest of transparency.

On the financial front, United Breweries reported an improvement in operational performance for the December quarter, even as revenue growth remained modest and volumes declined amid a colder-than-usual winter.

UBL’s revenue rose 3.6% year-on-year to ₹2,072.72 crore in Q3FY26, while its profit after tax more than doubled, rising 110.7% YoY to ₹81.15 crore.

19 March, 2026