KBL continues to downsize

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Kgalagadi Breweries Limited (KBL) will next month shut down its depot in Selebi- Phikwe with some of its 54 workers there facing possible retrenchment.

Corporate Communications Manager, Mokoro Ketsitlile said the business had been forced to come to this decision in the wake of sustained unfavourable regulatory and trading conditions that have forced them to restructure accordingly.

“Further, the current water and electricity shortages have exacerbated the situation, leading to production stoppages and loss of capacity by operations to consistently produce and deliver our products to adequately meet demand; rendering us, as a saving grace, to import products from neighbouring South Africa,” he said.

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