Chile Forum

eeuunikkeiexpat wrote:This evening my pareja said the word from CCU (Cristal and Escudo among others) is that production normality will take a month.

For those in the San Antonio area, Tottus still had a large stock of liter Becker bottles for 829 pesos two days ago.

…1. Our soft drinks, purified water, functional beverages, tea, mineral water, and
sweet snacks operations suffered minor damages and we have dedicated
efforts to clean, repair and set them in order which will allow us to resume the
normal course of operations starting today. Our pisco business was not
damaged and has been continuously in operation.

2. Regarding our beer operation in Santiago, it suffered damages in the filtering
and bottling areas. The Company immediately activated a Contingency Plan
with two purposes: (a) to restore all the installations condition to the pre-
earthquake status, within an estimated period of two to three months, and (b) in
the meantime, to implement a mitigation plan procuring to satisfy the demand in
normal terms. This plan means a temporary reallocation of the production within
the CCU system to the lesser damaged productive plants in Chile and to its
breweries in Argentina, so as to offset the temporarily lower production in the
Santiago brewery in the next two to three months.

3. The situation of our wine business was informed directly by the subsidiary
Viña San Pedro Tarapacá S.A. to the (SVS) on this date. Attached the reader
will find a translation of the communiqué.

4. The logistic operation is functioning in various degrees, depending on the
location with respect to the earthquake’s epicenter. It is being affected by the
difficulties of the current situation in the wrecked zone: damaged roads and
highways, limitations in the sale of fuel, lack of security in certain distribution
zones, interrupted communications and lack of energy. In addition, we have
suffered losses of the finished products inventory for approximately 200
thousand hectoliters of assorted product categories, and losses of raw and
production material. The inventories will be recovered shortly thanks to the
Contingency Plan and to the support of our suppliers. …