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Guinness Nigeria Plc
Company type	Public company
Traded as	NGX: GUINNESS
Industry	Alcoholic beverage
Founded	29 April 1950
Headquarters	24 Oba Akran Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Key people	Mr Babatunde Abayomi Savage (Chairman)
Products	Beer Brewing, Bottling and Marketing of Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, Harp Lager, Malta Guinness and other Beverages
Revenue	Naira 123,663,125,000 (2011)
Owner	Tolaram Group
Number of employees	1 332 (2012)
Website	http://www.guinness-nigeria.com

Foreign Extra Stout, the main product of Guinness Nigeria. See also the back label

Guinness Nigeria is a set of breweries in Nigeria, distributing under the Guinness label and owned by Tolaram.^[1]

History

Guinness product was sold in Nigeria in the 1940s and 1950s by United Africa Company (UAC). In 1961, Arthur Guinness Son and Co and UAC established a brewery at Ikeja, Lagos.^[2]

Built by Taylor Woodrow and being the first Guinness factory outside of Ireland and the UK, the initial plant had annual capacity to brew 75 million bottles or 150,000 barrels of beer. The plant area had a 15 million capacity bottle bin and office block designed by the firm of Godwin and Hopwood.^[3]

Other breweries have been opened over time: Ogba (1963) and Benin City (1973). In 2024, the majority of its shares were sold by Diageo—which continues to own all other Guinness units—to Tolaram, which previously had no background in alcoholic beverages.^[4]^[5]

Products

Guinness Nigeria produces the following beer brands:

Foreign Extra Stout (1962), 7.5% ABV (varies),
Harp Lager Beer (1974), 5.15% ABV,
Guinness Extra Smooth (2005) 6% ABV,
Satzenbrau (November 2006),
Harp Lime (2012) – discontinued.
Armstrong Black Lager – discontinued
Dubic Extra Lager (April 2012) 5% ABV,

The RTD (ready-to-drink) products include:

Gordon's Spark (2001) – discontinued,
Smirnoff Ice (September 2006)5.5% ABV,
SNAPP (September 2012) 5% ABV,
Orijin (August 2013) 6%ABV^[6]

The popular malta (soft drink) drink range includes:

Malta Guinness (1990),
Malta Guinness Low Sugar (May 2012)^[7]

Community Investment

Guinness Nigeria Plc's Water of Life initiative currently provides potable water to over 500,000 Nigerians spread across several rural communities, from Northern to Southern Nigeria. It funds scholarship and provides Guinness Eye Hospitals in three cities in Nigeria.^{[citation needed]}