SABMiller launches empowerment scheme for South East youths

By Pamela Eboh, Awka on 25/02/2016






Intafact Beverages Limited, a subsidiary of brewing giant SABMiller, yesterday announced the launch of its foundation known as “KickStart” initiative geared towards assisting young nascent entrepreneurs in the South East to kick off their own businesses. The programme was flagged off at the corporate office of SABMiller, makers of Hero Beer, Beta Malt, Castle Milk Stout and Grand Malt, located at the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State.

Addressing journalists on the KickStart initiative, the General Manager of the company, Mr. Lukas Van Deventer, said that SAB Miller has been in the forefront of assisting youths between the ages of 18 and 35 to build enduring and lasting entrepreneurial skills in areas where the company operates.

He noted that the programme, which will be an annual event, has already been implemented in countries like Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and Nigeria with a recent launch in Ilesha, Osun State.

According to Deventer, the aim of the programme is to help create, develop and nurture a culture of entrepreneurship among the youths by promoting business skills, managerial awareness and material support.

He reeled out the managerial support programme to include developing complete business skills training, providing business grants as one time start-up capital for new businesses, giving of grants to support expansion of existing businesses and providing post investment support by way of mentorship and coaching.

In his words, “The major objective of the programme is to ensure that the teaming youth in the South East realise their entrepreneurial dreams and help the region further reduce undergraduate unemployment by engaging them meaningfully through this entrepreneurship programme that will help nurture and encourage them to bring their dreams and business aspirations to life.

“To this end, we have established a foundation, the SABMiller Hero’s Foundation, to pursue this singular objective.

“More than any other initiative, we are investing in the future of our region by helping to build a prosperous young society and this programme is the hallmark of our Corporate Social Investment (CSI) objectives to the areas in which we operate.”

Mr. Deventer said that the company will partner with like-minded agencies and organisations to help youths with business ideas to bring them to fruition.

He called on interested applicants to either apply through the SABMiller Hero’s Foundation’s website, which is currently under construction, or collect forms at designated centres in the states within the region.

The SABMiller General Manager disclosed that the judges will review and select viable proposals for the screening, adding that the final shortlist of successful applicants will go for an in-house training for a period of one month where they will be tutored on how to articulate their businesses to make them viable.

•Photo shows Lukas Van Deventer addressing journalists yesterday in Onitsha.

Source: Omambala dot com/News Express

After relegating Nigerian brewery to second place on annual Sales chart & also making billions of Naira in Onitsha the emerging beer market, This is Wonderful!

You may recall that Sabmiller invested another $110m in Onitsha plant extension & Which was recently commissioned(see the news)World No.2 brewer, SABMiller, will inject a further $110 million in the expansion of its Onitsha, Nigeria, brewery, it said on Thursday.
This will triple the plant’s yearly capacity from 700 000 to 2.1 million hectolitres and create 400 direct jobs for locals.
The extension to the plant has been prompted by fastest-growing Hero Lager, which has done very well on the Nigerian market.
Simon Harvey, MD of SABMiller in Nigeria, said the company had made critical investments in Nigeria in the past five years.
“This announcement demonstrates our on-going commitment in the country,” Harvey said.
Goodluck Jonathan, the President of Nigeria, first commissioned the brewery in August 2012.
SABMiller made the first $100 million investment in Onitsha in what was described as the biggest single money injection in Anambra State in almost two decades. The plant currently employs 300 locals.

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