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The Efes Beverage Group merged its four
publicly listed brewing and malting
companies (Erciyas Biracilik, Ege Biracilik,
Güney Biracilik and Anadolu Biracilik)
under one publicly listed entity. The
new company is called" Anadolu
Efes" (AEFES.IS) (2000). |
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Licensed brewing of "Miller Genuine
Draft" (MGD) in Istanbul Brewery
- Turkey commenced under a license agreement
(2000). |
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Coca-Cola Bottlers of Turkey re-organized
under two companies "Coca-Cola
Içecek Üretim" (production) and
"Coca-Cola Satis ve Dagitim"
(sales and marketing) (2000). |
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Stary Melnik became Moscow's leading
beer in local premium segment (2001). |
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Efes Ukraine Brewery, established as
a joint venture with INVESCO CEAM in
Odessa-Ukraine (2001). |
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Anadolu Efes launched its new logo and
packaging for its Efes Pilsen, Efes
Pilsener, Efes Light, Efes Dark and
Efes Extra brands, thus providing for
a more contemporary look, in line with
the expectations of the consumers (2002). |
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Anadolu Efes signed a license agreement
with Interbrew for the production, marketing
and distribution of “Beck's” brand in
Turkey (2002). |
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EBI, increased its capital thereby allocating
15% of the capital to selected foreign
institutional investors through a private
placement in order to provide external
funding to further accelerate its rapidly
growing operations (2002-2003). |
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Anadolu Efes DR's started to trade in
Level-1 (2002). |
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EBG introduced leading German brand
"Warsteiner Premium Verum"
to the Russian beer market, in the licenced
premium segment. (2002) |
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Turkish Coca-Cola Bottling operations
are restructured to operate as a production
company, Coca-Cola Içecek A.S. (CCI)
and a sales & marketing company
which became a wholly owned subsidiary
of CCI (2002). |
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Acquisition of the Vitanta Intravest
S.A. brewery, the leader of the Moldovian
beer, soft drinks and water markets,
located in Chisinau, Moldova (2003). |
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Production commenced in Rostov, the
new green-field brewery in Russia (2003). |
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Start of the production in the brand
new brewery in Almaty-Kazakhstan (2003). |
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Acquisition of the Amstar Brewery located
in Ufa, in the Urals region of Russia
(2003). |
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| Acquisition
of the majority shares of the Pancevo Brewery in Serbia,
located on the outskirts of Belgrade. The name of the
brewery changed to “Efes Weifert” (2003). |
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| Acquisition of the majority shares of the Zajecar Brewery in Serbia. Following the acquisition of Zajecar Brewery, EBI became the third largest brewing company in Serbia (2004).
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| Initial Public Offering of EBI and listing of GDRs in the London Stock Exchange (2004).
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| Licensed brewing of Australia's famous beer Foster's in Turkey commenced (2005)
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| Licensed brewing of Czech beer “Zlatopramen”
commenced in Russia (2005)
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| In order to meet the increasing demand for Coca-
Cola trademarked beverages in Kazakhstan,
construction of the new production facility in Almaty
was completed and production commenced (2005)
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| EBI increased its capacity to 11.8 million hectoliters
through increases in its plants in Ufa, Rostov and
Moldova (2005)
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| “The Coca-Cola Bottling of Iraq FZCO” was
established as a 50%-50% JV between Efes Invest
and a local partner to exclusively cover Iraq for the
sales and distribution rights for Coca-Cola
trademarked beverages with an option to become
the bottler in the Iraqi market within 2 years (2005)
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| Efes Invest acquired 90% of “The Coca-Cola
Bottling Company of Jordan” (2005)
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| Restructuring of Anadolu Efes’ soft drinks operations
under CCI, whereby CCI acquired the majority stake
of Efes Invest, previously held by Anadolu Efes
(2005)
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| Acquisition of the 7th largest brewer in Russia,
Krasny Vostok Brewing Group (2006)
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| CCI acquired “Mahmudiye” natural spring water
(2006)
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| EBI sold its 50% share in Interbrew Efes Brewery
in Romania to InBev (2006)
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| EBI increased its shareholding in MEB from 71.0%
to 90.9% (2006)
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| EBI signed a licence agreement with Holland’s
second largest brewer, Bavaria N.V (Bavaria), to
produce, market and sell “Bavaria Premium” and
“Bavaria Malt” brands in Russia (2006)
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| The initial public offering of CCI completed (2006)
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| “Efes Ice” was launched in Turkey (2006)
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| Following the capacity increases in Russia and
Kazakhstan, EBI’s total beer production capacity in
Russia and Kazakhstan reached 20.2 and 1.3 mhl,
respectively (2006)
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| 500 million USD syndication loan sourced jointly
with EBI with the participation of 22 banks in order
to finance KV Group acquisition and purchase of
minority shares in MEB (2006)
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| EBI increased its capital by US$300 million through
a rights issue, in which both Anadolu Efes and
EBI’s public minority shareholders participated
(2006)
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| EBI signed a licence agreement to produce Mexican
beer “SOL” in Russia (2006)
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| Turkey’s first wheat beer, “Gusta” is launched
(2007)
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| Lemon and agave flavoured “Mariachi” is launched
in Turkey (2007)
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| Mr. Alejandro Jimenez has been appointed as the
new Efes Beer Group President and the CEO and
the Chairman of the Board of Management of EBI
(2007)
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| Efes Moldova’s soft drink brand called “Viva” as
well as “Real” brand of bottled water was sold to
The Coca-Cola Company (2007)
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