Hrodna brewery stopped working, personnel fired :: Charter'97 :: News

As director of the brewery Andrei Losyau told the” Narodnaya Volya”(People’s Freedom) newspaper, the official reason for firing the staff was termination of their employment contracts. That was the foreseen action because over the year ago the decision was taken by the Belarusian government on re-profiling of the Hrodna brewery due to the warning out of its equipment. The staff redundancy was pursued step by step.

The Hrodna brewery is located in the building of the late XIX century on the left bank of the Nyoman. In compliance with the resolution of “Harodnyakharchprom” (Hrodna foodstuffs industry department) the brewery has to be rebuilt into the tourist entertainment complex with its hotel, coffee shops and local brewery of 500 deco-liters annual capacity.USD100 thousand can be invested into the project implementation by the regional power saving fund. USD 1 million are expected from thee foreign investor. Furthermore the investor has to repay the debt of the Hrodna brewery amounting to USD 2.5 million. Until now no company expressed its interest in the project.