Southern Sudan Beverages Limited was a brewery based in South Sudan and previously owned by ABInBev. The company closed operations in 2016.
SABMiller has an investment in the company while it was within the jurisdiction of Sudan
It built a ~£32 million factory in Juba, making it the first manufacturing facility in the country and came despite competition from imported beers from Kenya and Uganda.
The initial plans to start a brewery had begun in 2006 before the launch in 2009.
The company's initial challenges included logistics as material to build the first factory needed to be driven into the country from Mombasa, Kenya including two second hand brewery machines from Malta and Bulgaria and a power plant needed to be built, while the only ingredient of beer available was local water from the Nile and the over 250 workers who had mostly never been employed before needed to be trained from scratch.
The malted barley, hops and yeast are imported but there were plans to work with local farmers to start brewing with cassava.
The factory has a capacity to produce 180,000hl of clear beer and 60,000hl of carbonated soft drinks annually.
The flagship White Bull's colours are yellow, green and white and are served in heavy brown bottles. It is also illegally available in Khartoum, Sudan.
Production started in May 2009
On January 14 2016, the company had announced it would be closing its brewing operations in South Sudan by mid-February due to the foreign-currency shortage restricting its ability to import raw materials
