Afghanistan Beverage Industries

Afghanistan Beverage Industries Ltd.
legal form	Ltd.
founding	2004
Seat	Kabul , Afghanistan
management	Nemat Ishan Khwaja (CEO) ; Ahmad Waseem ; Cecil Galloway
Number of employees	350
Branch	Beverage bottlers
Website	www.abi-af.com
	As of December 31, 2015

The Afghanistan Beverage Industries Ltd. (ABI) is Afghanistan's first mineral water company. It was founded in 2004 with funds from the Afghan Renewal Fund and produces Cristal- branded drinking water and other non-alcoholic beverages in plastic bottles .

history

In 2004 Nemat Ishan Khwaja founded Afghanistan Beverage Industries Ltd. in Kabul . with funding from the Afghan Renewal Fund , a US government venture capital fund . In 2006 joined ABI using the Canadian NGO Building Markets with the US Army signed a contract for the supply of bottled water worth 8 million dollars annually. As part of this contract, strict safety and hygiene controls were introduced in order to meet the required US standards.

In a cooperation agreement concluded with PepsiCo in 2016 , ABI secured the exclusive rights to fill and sell all PepsiCo brands for Afghanistan.

Companies

Afghanistan Beverage Industries sells its own table water in PET bottles under the brand name Cristal and, as a distributor, all PepsiCo brands such as Pepsi , 7 Up , Mirinda or Mountain Dew . For this purpose, the company operates a modern filling plant in Kabul with a capacity of 13,000 bottles per hour and sales offices in Mazar-e Sharif , Herat , Kandahar , Jalalabad and in the Jebel Ali Free Zone , a free trade zone in the Emirate of Dubai .

Web links

Afghanistan Beverage at Bloomberg.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Local procurement in Afghanistan: Building Markets. In: The Concept Case Study 6. Local First, May 2, 2016, accessed May 28, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Afghan bottling plant wins contract to supply water to Coalition troops. The Embassy of Afghanistan in Tokyo, Japan on May 2, 2016, accessed October 9, 2006 .
↑ ^a ^b PepsiCo signs agreement with Afghanistan Industries to manufacture beverages in Afghanistan. The Nation, May 2, 2016, accessed May 28, 2016 .

[1] Local procurement in Afghanistan: Building Markets. In: The Concept Case Study 6. Local First, May 2, 2016, accessed May 28, 2016 .

[amb-2] Afghan bottling plant wins contract to supply water to Coalition troops. The Embassy of Afghanistan in Tokyo, Japan on May 2, 2016, accessed October 9, 2006 .

[nation-3] PepsiCo signs agreement with Afghanistan Industries to manufacture beverages in Afghanistan. The Nation, May 2, 2016, accessed May 28, 2016 .