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Introduction

Teniente General Perón 667
Buenos Aires, C.F. 1038
Argentina
Telephone: (54) (11) 4321-2700
Fax: (54) (11) 4394-2310
Web site: http://www.Quinsa.com

Public Company
Incorporated: 1888 as Brasserie Argentine Quilmes S.A.
Employees: 6,234
Sales: $648.5 million (2003)
Stock Exchanges: Bourse de Luxembourg New York
Ticker Symbols: QUIN.LU; QUINp.LU; LQU
NAIC: 312111 Soft Drink Manufacturing; 312112 Bottled Water Manufacturing; 312120 Breweries; 551112 Offices of Other Holding Companies

Quilmes Industrial (QUINSA) S.A. is a Luxembourg-based holding company that, through its principal subsidiary, dominates the production and sale of beer in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The same subsidiary also takes part in a joint venture producing and marketing mineral water in Argentina. A subsidiary of this subsidiary controls the two largest bottlers and producers of PepsiCo Inc. beverages in Argentina. Although incorporated in Luxembourg, Quinsa is administered from Buenos Aires, where it maintains its executive offices.

1. Introduction
2. A Century of Beermaking: 1890–1989
3. Expansion in the 1990s
4. New Century, New Alliance
5. Principal Subsidiaries
6. Principal Competitors
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright Page
9. About Page