KBL Explains Beer Shortage

Isaac Pinielo | Monday August 17, 2015 11:53

 

For the past few days, beer consumers have been facing the agony as some liquor outlets continue to experience shortage of one of the country’s favorite beer brands, the Black Label and Castle Lite 750ml, because of the ongoing maintenance at the local brewery.

In a statement from KBL’s Corporate Communications Manager Mokoro Ketsitlile last week, the company stated that the shortage of beer supply was as a result of a scheduled maintenance for machinery and plant.

“Annually, at this period, KBL as a large manufacturing plant undergoes a scheduled maintenance for machinery and plant.

“A part of this scheduled shutdown period for this year involved the installation of a new labeller,” he explained.

Ketsitlile said despite the scheduled effort to produce and adequately meet demand, this has not been possible over the term owing to below expectation production due to water and electricity supply interruptions.

He also said following on from measures to re-scale production and pack configurations, production lines are currently in the commissioning stage.

He said as a result, once the maintenance is done, they expect that demand will be met gradually. This means that it may take some trickle down time for the product to eventually be available at all retail outlets.

“We therefore would like to appeal to our customers to bear with us during this period,” said Ketsitlile.

He emphasised that the water and electricity shortages have not made their scheduled annual maintenance easy, adding that the situation will normalise after this week.