PRESS RELEASE: INTERBREW STOPS EXPO

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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: INTERBREW STOPS EXPORT OF LABATT ICE BEER TO  BURMA 

Dear Burmanetreaders,

Good news ! The Belgian Brewery group Interbrew decided to stop all export
to Burma. Via Pokka, A Japanese company based in Singapore, Interbrew
exported the Canadian produced Labatt Ice Beer to Burma. The efforts of the
Canadian Friends of Burma, Burma Centre Netherlands (BCN)and KWIA brought
the Interbrew management to this wise decision.


text of Interbrew's press release (unofficial translation from Dutch):

Interbrews demands its independent distributors to stop sale to Burma

Leuven, 14 october 1996 - Interbrew, the Belgian brewery group, affirms
neither to have investements, neither to have plans to do so in Burma (Myanmar).

There is no direct sale of Interbrewproducts to this country. Interbrew has
no plans at all to set up any selling organization or distribution network.

Interbrew exports her products to 80 countries, mostly by means of
independent distributors. So Interbrew has demanded her independent
distributors in the region to stop all possible sales to Burma.

By this way Interbrew takes her responsibility as a good international citizen.

(Interbrew, a family company, is one of the market leaders in the world of
beer and has settlements in Belgium, Canada, the United States, Netherlands,
France, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine. Interbrew has joint
ventures in the USA, the Dominican Republic, China, the Philippines and
Luxembourg and has a minority participation in the Mexican brewery Femsa.
Interbrew also exports her products to more than 80 countries via direct
sale, participations and licences for Stella Artois and Labbat In England,
Italy, Sweden, Ivory Coast and Canada)

For more information, you can contact Interbrew, Gerard Fauchey
(32)(0)16/24.73.99 (end press release)


Greetings,

Kris Deckers



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