With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and National Company Kazakh Invest, Carlsberg Kazakhstan on April 19 opened a new production site in Almaty worth $50 million.
The launch of the new production facility will contribute to ensuring 100% localization of brewing and non-alcoholic products to meet the domestic needs of the Kazakh market and exports to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Armenia.
Carlsberg Kazakhstan will provide jobs for about 500 production employees in Almaty and over 2,000 employees of distribution companies in the regions of Kazakhstan.
At the opening ceremony, Lars Lehmann, First Vice President for Central and Eastern Europe of Carlsberg Group, thanked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and Kazakh Invest for their support in implementing the investment project.
“As a leading international investor in the food industry, from 2008 to the present, we have invested about $213 million in the beverage industry in Kazakhstan. When implementing investment projects, we pay increased attention to the social aspect, creating jobs in our improved plant and related sectors. For one person directly employed in the brewing industry, ten people are working in agriculture and SMEs,” Lars Lehmann said.
Opening a new production facility multiplies the development of related industries in the local market. In the packaging industry, glass bottles, aluminum cans, and packaging film are produced. Grain and malt are produced by the agro-industrial sector.
Photo: Kazakh Invest
