05.20.2025

Ursus Breweries, part of Asahi Europe & International and the leader of the beer market in Romania, announces the appointment of Dan Timotin as Managing Director for Romania, starting July 1, 2025. more

08.09.2024

Ursus Breweries, the largest player on Romania’s beer market, owned by Japan’s Asahi group, will invest EUR15 million in a new line at Buzau plant. more

06.12.2024

Ursus Breweries, the largest brewer in Romania, ended 2023 with RON2.67 billion revenue, up 17% from the previous year, Finance Ministry data show. more

11.01.2023

Ursus Breweries, the largest actor on the beer market in Romania, has inaugurated a new bottling line at its brewery in Brasov, as well as new warehouses, labs and office space, which will help more

09.22.2023

Ursus Breweries, the leader of the local beer market, has invested EUR2 million in an installation that uses energy efficiency technologies to recover heat energy from flue gas at its brewery in more

06.15.2023

Ursus Breweries, the beer market leader, posted RON2.279 billion (about EUR462 million) revenue in 2022, up more than 6% from the previous year, Finance Ministry data show. more

05.22.2023

Brewer Ursus Breweries has appointed Roberto Follacchio vice president of human resources as of June 1. Follacchio had previously served as Sr. HR Business Partner Commercial of Birra Peroni Italy, more

11.09.2022

Michal Mrowiec, the current Sales Vicepresident of Kompania Piwowarska, will take over the role of President of Ursus Breweries starting with January 1, 2023, after Paul Barnetts' decision to return more

05.24.2022

Ursus Breweries, the largest player in the Romanian beer industry, has launched the Kozel beer brand in Romania. more

05.28.2021

Ursus Breweries, the largest brewer in Romania, expects sales to revert to 2019 levels this year, says sales vice president Gabriela Cretu, once the restrictions have been lifted and the hospitality more

11.17.2020

Ursus Breweries, the beer market leader in Romania, has invested more than EUR10 million in a new craft brewery in Cluj-Napoca, named Barlog. The company also has a pub and a souvenir shop on the more

10.11.2018

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06.18.2018

Ursus Breweries, the leader of the beer market in Romania, will increase the number of employees once the EUR22 million investment project in boosting production capacity in Timisoara and Brasov has more

05.28.2018

Japan’s Asahi group, the new owner of beer brands Ursus and Timisoreana, has announced EUR22 million investments in the breweries in Brasov and Timisoara, in order to boost production capacity. more

10.20.2017

Ursus Breweries, the largest brewer in Romania, posted 8% to 10% higher sales in the first half compared with the year-ago period and its growth rate was higher than the overall market’s. more

03.03.2017

European Commission has approved the transaction whereby Ursus Breweries, the leader of the beer market in Romania, will be acquired by Japan’s Asahi group in a EUR7.3 billion deal including all the more

12.14.2016

Ursus Breweries, the leader of the beer market in Romania, will be acquired by Japan’s Asahi group in a EUR7.3 billion deal including all the Eastern European assets of SABMiller. more

04.29.2016

AB InBev offered to sell SAB Miller’s Central and Eastern Europe brands, including Pilsner Urquell, ahead of a decision by the European Commission on whether to approve the transaction valued at more

03.14.2016

The Platinia residential project that businessman Sile Puscas is developing the former site of the Ursus brewery in Cluj-Napoca (NW Romania) will be completed by December, following an about EUR40 more

02.08.2016

The president of Ursus Breweries, Igor Tikhonov, was appointed head of the Romanian brewers association, replacing Lucian Ghinea, Bergenbier president. more

09.04.2015

Ursus Breweries, the leading brewer in Romania, has appointed Claudiu Fuiorea vice-president of finance, which gives him a seat in the Board of Directors, as well. more

08.06.2015

Ursus Breweries, the largest brewer on the local market, is launching in Romania six brands in the global portfolio of SABMiller and of its partners, namely, St. Stefanus, Miller Genuine Draft, more

07.24.2015

The Romanian government tax measures and the favorable weather conditions increased the sales of Ursus Breweries in April to June, the first three months of the new fiscal year. more

03.31.2015

The trend of pubs and restaurants closing across Europe as a result of lifestyle changes and smoking bans was accelerated by the challenging economic conditions. The trend has been visible in recent more