industry alcoholic beverage predecessor brasseries et glaci res du laos founded 1971 headquarters vientiane laos products beer owner lao government carlsberg group website official website a bottle of beerlao lager . the lao brewery company ltd. lbc bolisad beerlao chamkad is a producer of beer soft drinks and bottled drinking water in laos . 1 it is headquartered in vientiane . contents 1 history 2 products 3 external links 4 references history edit founded in 1971 the lao brewery company was at that time a joint venture between french and lao businessmen . it took up production in 1973 with a capacity of 3 million litres per year . 2 the company then called brasseries et glaci res du laos bgl marketed bi re larue for the local market and 33 export for export to countries in indochina . with the establishment of the lao pdr in 1975 the company was nationalised and obtained the status of a state owned enterprise . 2 it marketed its beer first under the bi re lao brand then early 1995 as beerlao . their brand 33 export was marketed till 1990 and bi re larue till 1995 . in the wake of the 1986 economic reform program which initiated a transition from central planning to a market economy and the launching of the new economic mechanism nem the lbc in 1993 entered into a joint venture 49 % lao government owned with 51 % foreign investment loxley 25.5 % 3 and italian 25.5 % with a production capacity of 20 million litres per year and employing 300 workers . 2 in 2002 the foreign investors withdrew their shares from lbc and the lao government regained total control of the company . subsequently carlsberg and tcc a thai company which is carlsberg s partner in thailand each acquired a 25 % share in lbc . the remaining shares are still held by the government of laos . the maximum capacity at that time was 60 million litres . in 2005 the company increased its annual production capacity to 85 million litres and in 2007 to 160 million litres . it now has about 500 employees . recently a new factory was opened in pakse with a capacity of 100 million litres per year . in 2005 ownership changed once again with the lao government still owning 50 % and the remaining 50 % owned by carlsberg . all machinery is imported from europe . the company processes locally grown rice and imports malted barley from france and belgium and hops and yeast from germany . products edit the company produces and markets 3 types of beer under the beerlao brand beerlao lager beerlao gold and beerlao dark lanexang lager and locally brewed carlsberg lager . it also produces and markets bottled drinking water under the tiger head brand . 2 4 lbc claims it has a 99 % local beer market share . 5 beerlao is exported to a dozen countries but the export figures are still modest though increasing . citation needed beerlao products have been awarded several times with gold quality awards at the world quality selections organised yearly by monde selection . 6 external links edit official site references edit lao brewery co . lao brewery co. lbc . retrieved 3 october 2014 . a b c d international success of laotian beer . world intellectual property organisation . retrieved 23 may 2014 . annez p. ; sarakosas s. ; vandenberghe d. may 2001 . loxley the development of the lao brewery company pdf . asean business case studies no 20 . asean . retrieved 3 january 2015 . 98 % market share for beer and 60 % for water . birkner gmbh & co. kg . 25 september 2012 . retrieved 3 january 2015 . about beerlao lbc reported growth of 19 % in first half of 2010 current news retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lao brewery company & oldid 735149452 categories food and drink companies established in 1971beer in laoscompanies of laosvientianehidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisnederlands edit links this page was last modified on 18 august 2016 at 22 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view