Heineken to build new US $3B brewery in Yucatán

Mega-beermaker Heineken México has announced an important US $2.75 cardinal concern for the operation of a caller brewery successful Yucatán, marking 1 of the company’s largest caller investments successful Mexico.

Heineken CEO Oriol Bonaclocha revealed the determination during President Claudia Sheinbaum’s greeting property league Wednesday. He said the concern volition rotation retired betwixt 2025 and 2028 and is expected to make 3,000 jobs. 

Heineken CEO Oriol Bonaclocha (left) announced the concern astatine President Sheinbaum’s greeting property league Wednesday, besides attended by Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard (right) and Héctor Ibarzábal, of the Mexican Association of Industrial Parks. (Heineken México/X)

“Today, Madam President, we are present to reaffirm our committedness to Mexico,” Binaclocha said. 

Bonaclocha noted that Heineken’s large caller concern includes a caller brewery successful the Kanasín area, conscionable extracurricular the superior of Mérida successful Yucatán state.. It volition beryllium the company’s eighth works successful the state and volition beryllium built aft an unprecedented consultation with the Indigenous assemblage section to the area. 

“This task is an important milestone for the company, arsenic it marks the archetypal clip successful Heineken’s past that an Indigenous consultation was conducted, positioning Heineken arsenic the archetypal institution successful the manufacture to initiate an unfastened speech wrong the community,” Bonaclocha said.

The works volition person the capableness to nutrient 4 cardinal hectoliters, with the imaginable of doubling its capableness if request requires it. 

Bonaclocha said that the products volition carnivore the “Hecho en México” (Made successful Mexico) seal. That means they volition beryllium identified by the Economy Ministry arsenic having 100% of their inputs originating successful Mexico and the manufacturing process itself volition person taken spot wrong Mexico.

 Sheinbaum celebrated the investment, highlighting that assurance successful Mexico remains. “Investments successful Mexico continue. Confidence continues,” she said.

Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard added that Heineken’s concern corresponds to the government’s involvement successful attracting companies that request h2o for their accumulation to regions with capable h2o resources.  

“We’re looking for companies to found themselves wherever there’s water, and the southeast has ample h2o resources,” helium explained.

This year, Heineken is celebrating its 135th day successful Mexico. Its portfolio successful the state comprises 21 brands, including Heineken, Tecate, Indio, Dos Equis, Amstel Ultra and Carta Blanca. 

In summation to its existing 7 plants successful Mexico, the institution has a malting works and a logistics web of much than 170 organisation centers.

With reports from Debate and Lopez Doriga