United Breweries Co. Inc. CCU

What this company does

CCU operates a multi-category beverage business in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay. In 2025, Chile accounted for 72% of its consolidated net sales and Argentina for 22%. It reports its consolidated results under operating segments defined by the geographic areas of its commercial activity: Chile, International Business and Wine. In Chile the company produces and sells alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Beer for the Chilean market is bottled or packaged in glass bottles, aluminum cans, plastic bottles and stainless-steel kegs at main production facilities in the cities of Santiago, Temuco, Valdivia and Punta Arenas. It produces or imports, sells and distributes beer under proprietary and licensed brands in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. VSPT produces and markets a full range of wine products for the Chilean and Argentine domestic markets and for export markets, reaching over 80 countries. In Colombia it participates in equal parts with Grupo Postobón in the ownership of Central Cervecera de Colombia S.A.S. and Zona Franca Central Cervecera S.A.S., for the production, marketing and distribution of beer and malt-based non-alcoholic beverages.

Written from the business description in UNITED BREWERIES CO INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 29 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.