United Breweries Group

United Breweries Limited
Company typePrivate
IndustryConglomerate
Founded1857; 167 years ago (1857)
Headquarters
UB City, Bangalore, Karnataka
,
India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Vivek Gupta
(CEO) [1] [2]
Products
BrandsKingfisher
London Pilsner
RevenueIncrease ₹7,549 crore (US$900 million) (2023)[3]
Increase ₹403 crore (US$48 million) (2023)
Increase ₹304 crore (US$36 million) (2023)
Total assetsIncrease ₹6,280 crore (US$750 million) (2023)
Total equityIncrease ₹3,965 crore (US$480 million) (2023)
OwnerHeineken
Number of employees
50,000 (2017)[4]
Subsidiaries
  • Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers
  • UB Overseas Limited
  • Kingfisher Training and Aviation Services Ltd.
  • UB Infrastructure Projects Ltd.
  • United Breweries Of America Inc.
  • UB International Trading Ltd.
  • UB Electronic Instruments Ltd.
  • Kingfisher Finvest India Ltd.
Websitewww.unitedbreweries.com

United Breweries Holdings Limited (UBHL), also called UB Group, is the Indian subsidiary of Heineken N.V.. It is headquartered in UB City, Bangalore, Karnataka. Its core business includes beverages and investments in various sectors. The company markets beer under the Kingfisher brand, and owns various other brands of alcoholic beverages. United Breweries is India's largest producer of beer.[5]

United Breweries now has greater than a 40% share of the Indian brewing market with 79 distilleries and bottling units around the world. In 2005, UB financed a takeover of the spirits business of the rival Shaw-Wallace company, giving it a majority share of India's spirits business.[6] The group no longer owns the Mendocino Brewing Company in the United States.

  1. ^ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/liquor/ubl-appoints-vivek-gupta-as-its-new-md/articleshow/103463866.cms?from=mdr
  2. ^ https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/united-breweries-appoints-vivek-gupta-as-md-ceo/article67280421.ece
  3. ^ "United Brewery Ltd". The Economic Times. The Times Group.
  4. ^ "Corporate profile - About us - Essar". Essar Group. 23 June 2010. Archived from the original on 10 August 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  5. ^ Gupta, Soumya (26 December 2017). "Kingfisher's market share drops as foreign beer brands gain ground". livemint. HT Media.
  6. ^ "Mallya bottles Shaw Wallace". The Telegraph. 22 March 2005. Archived from the original on 5 April 2005.