Fortune News | Aug 14,2021
Kegna Beverages on Saturday, June 14, 2025, uncorked its first bottles of Kegna Beer, a domestically owned, five percent ABV lager brewed in the West Shewa Zone of Oromia Regional State, marking what regional officials hailed as a fresh chapter for the beverage market. The launch drew senior dignitaries, among them President Taye Asqesilase and Shimelis Abdisa, president of the Oromia Regional State, who was accompanied by Alebel Melaku (left), minister of Industry, and Neway Megersa, president of Siinqee Bank, who is also the board chairman of Kegna Beverage. They were joined by hundreds of residents in the company’s hometown of Ginchi, 80Km west of Addis Abeba.
Backed by more than 4,000 shareholders - individuals, cooperatives and companies - Kegna Beverages has spent 22 billion Br to build a state-of-the-art brewery on 110hct of land it acquired after its incorporation in 2017. The plant, fitted out with equipment from Germany’s Krones Group and steel frames supplied by Emirates Building Systems of Dubai Investments, is engineered to turn out more than three million hectoliters a year.
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