For immediate release
For more information contact:
Felipe Arancibia (56-2) 427-3050
Catalina Escaffi (56-2) 427-3195
Investor Relations Department
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A.
www.ccu.cl / www.ccuinvestor.com
CCU ACCOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF FELIPE ARANCIBIA AS CORPORATE FINANCE AND INVESTOR RELATIONS MANAGER
(Santiago, Chile, 7 May, 2012) - On May 1, 2012, CCU
appointed Felipe Arancibia as new Corporate Finance and
Investor Relations Manager, succeeding Rosita Covarrubias who
will retire according to CCU's internal Human Resources
policy.
Mr. Arancibia has a degree in Business Administration from
the Universidad de Los Andes and holds an Executive Scholar
Program in Finance and Alumnus from Kellogg School of
Management, Northwestern University. He has been working at
CCU for the last ten years in Finance and Business
Development. The latest positions he has held were Global
Finance Manager for Heineken International in Amsterdam and
Business Development Manager for Heineken Brazil in Sao
Paulo. Prior to that, he held the position of Planning and
Finance Manager at ECCUSA, CCU's Non-Alcoholic beverages
subsidiary. Mr. Arancibia has also been a member of the
Professional Pricing Society since 2008 and former member of
the American Management Association. He is also a part-time
Professor of Evaluation of New Businesses and Introduction to
Finance at Universidad de Los Andes.
CCU is a diversified beverage company operating principally in Chile and Argentina. CCU is the largest Chilean brewer, the second- largest Argentine brewer, the second-largest Chilean soft drink producer, the second-largest Chilean wine producer, the largest Chilean mineral water and nectars producer, the largest pisco distributor and also participates in the rum and confectionery industries in Chile. The Company has licensing agreements with Heineken Brouwerijen B.V., Anheuser-Busch Incorporated, PepsiCo Inc., Paulaner Brauerei AG, Schweppes Holdings Limited, Guinness Brewing W orldwide Limited, Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Pernod Ricard and Compañía Pisquera Bauzá S.A.. For more information, visit www.ccu.cl or www.ccuinvestor.com.
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