Why it is on record
Brewed the first bottle of STAR lager in June 1949 — the first industrial-scale brewery in Nigeria and a founding artefact of Nigerian manufacturing.
Record held
First brewery; longest-running large-scale manufacturer.
Manufacturing · colonial · Founded 1946
Nigerian Breweries
Status: Operating (Heineken majority).
Methodology
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Redline
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