Société des Brasseries et Glacières Internationales

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Brasseries et Glacières Internationales
legal form Société anonyme
public limited company (France)
Seat Paris
management Guy de Clercq
sales 70,198,449 euros (2013)
Branch brewery
Website www.groupe-castel.com

The Société des Brasseries et Glacières Internationales (BGI) is a French company active in the beverage industry. It belongs to the Groupe Castel . The company operates 41 breweries in 20 countries in Africa . (As of 2014)

history

The company Brasseries et Glacières d'Indochine (BGI) (breweries and ice cream factories of Indochina) was founded by the house of Denis Frères from Bordeaux . Further foundings were in 1919 the “Brasseries du Maroc” in Morocco and the “Brasseries et glacières d'Algérie” in Algeria , and in 1948 the “Brasseries du Cameroun” in Cameroon . In 1954 the "Compagnie fermière de l'établissement thermal de Vichy" was bought and the Brasseries et Glacières du Laos were founded , and in 1967 the "Brasseries du Niger" in the Republic of Niger .

The group name Brasseries et Glacières Internationales was adopted in 1975. Through its subsidiary Union Breweries, it took control of the Pelforth breweries in 1980 . In 1990 the Castel Group acquired BGI. Under this one took control of the company Société de limonaderies et brasseries d'Afrique (SOLIBRA) in Abidjan , Ivory Coast in 1994 . Together with SABMiller , they form a duopoly in the African beer market.

BGI is one of the ten largest brewery groups in the world.

swell

  • Paul Zoa: L'Expansion de la brasserie française: le cas des Brasseries et glacières internationales (BGI) , 1979
  • Jean Suret-Canale: Afrique et capitaux: Geographie des capitaux et des investissements en Afrique tropicale d'expression française
  • Alain Huetz de Lemps: Boissons et civilizations en Afrique , 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Presentation de la société
  2. ↑ Meet you Tribunal de Commerce de PARIS. Retrieved July 27, 2014 (French).
  3. ^ Company history Groupe Castel, accessed on July 27, 2014
  4. ↑ Le marché de la bière africaine monte en pression Si le géant anglo-sud-africain SABMiller et le français Castel contrôlent le secteur à l'échelle du continent en ayant diversifié leurs marques Article in: Jeuneafrique.com: Le marché de la bière africaine monte en pression , Jeuneafrique.com, accessed July 27, 2014
  5. ↑ AFRICA: SABMiller, Castel shake up Africa JV , accessed July 27, 2014
  6. ↑ The world's largest brewers , accessed July 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ The Barth Report: The 40 largest brewery groups in the world as of December 31, 2017. (pdf) Joh.Barth & Sohn GmbH & Co KG., July 2018, p. 9 , accessed on July 27, 2018 .

Web links

  • [2] further business figures