Pivovary CZ Group
We represented the group of owners of Pivovary CZ Group, a.s. in their search for a partner to continue their over 50-year stewardship of the Zubr, Litovel, and Holba brands. The goal was to ensure the development of the breweries in the domestic and foreign markets while preserving their regional identity.
Our task
Patria was tasked with organizing the sale process, which included searching for and aproaching suitable strategic and financial investors from among domestic and foreign companies, producing marketing materials for the transaction, presenting the company, preparing and coordinating due diligence and negotiating transaction documentation.
The transaction itself was preceded by the comprehensive preparation of the group including restructuring and the aggregation of individual breweries under a single entity with the aim of increasing transparency and management efficiency and reducing operating costs of the newly created company.
Results
The winner of the private process was a consortium of three leading regional players, namely RSJ Investments, a leading financial investor in the Czech market, the Úsovsko Group, a major agricultural group in the North Moravia region, and Kofola Group, as the most important publicly traded beverage group in the region, and which has built a new pillar in this sector with this acquisition.
Consortium
Kofola - leading beverage company in Eastern Europe with group sales of CZK 8.7 billion
RSJ Investments - a leading Czech investment group investing in agriculture, food and real estate
Úsovsko - a group of more than 30 companies operating in the agricultural and food sectors in the Moravian-Silesian region
Breweries CZ Group
The 5th largest brewery group in the Czech Republic with an annual output exceeding 800,000 hectolitres and revenues of CZK 1.5 billion, consisting of three independent breweries, namely Zubr, Litovel and Holba, producing beer and other beer products under the same brand names.