The Nigerian Breweries Plc, has announced that it spent over N11 billion in the upgrade of facilities in its Ota Brewery plant, located in Ota, Ogun State, in tune with its commitment of availing its teeming consumers with quality products.
Disclosing this on Wednesday at the official commissioning of the upgraded brewery in Ota, the Chairman of the company, Chief Kola Jamodu explained that the three upgraded facilities which included the Brewery’s PET line, its Water Treatment Plant and Waste Water Treatment Plant, demonstrated Nigerian Breweries Plc’s way of expressing confidence in the fundamentals of the nation’s economy, in spite of the present economic challenges.
He described the upgraded Brewery as part of the company’s resolve at developing the nation’s economy and that of Ogun State in particular; noting that the upgraded facilities would go a long way in further enhancing the lives of people in the community by creating job opportunities for such indigenes.
While commending the state government for creating an enabling environment for businesses to thrive in the state, the NB Plc boss added that over 55 per cent of materials used in the brewing of the company’s products were sourced locally, while a much higher percentage of such materials were being used in the packaging of the company’s products, with over 250,000 local farmers currently benefitting from the initiative.
According to him, while the PET line would ensure availability of the company’s non-alcoholic products, the Water Treatment Plant, he stated, would go a long way in enhancing the quality of products produced in the plant.
He added that the new Waste Water Treatment Plant would also go a long way in ensuring the effective management of waste water used in the plant to ensure that they never constituted any hazard to the public.
Chief Jamodu stated argued that as a way of demonstrating the company’s utmost faith in the economy of the state, two out of the company’s ten plants are currently domiciled in the state.
“Investing over N11 billion in the upgrade of the facilities in the Brewery is a way of expressing the company’s confidence in the nation’s economy in spite of the economic recession the country is experiencing at the moment,” he stated.
While assuring the state government of the company’s readiness to partner with the state, company’s chairman expressed the company’s plans to ensure that it increased the percentage of its local contents used in manufacturing its products from 55 per cent to 60 per cent before the end of 2018.
He, however, called on other companies to emulate NB Plc by citing their businesses in the state and ensuring the materials needed for such businesses were sourced locally so as to improve the lives of the state’s indigenes.
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