Archive record · Brewery
Samoa Breweries
Samoa
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Archive ID
- TB-V4EVN7XR
- Last checked
- Not yet checked
Who owns this brewery?
Not yet mapped as a company, so the chain above it is still open.
From the record
Summary
Established Samoa brewery seed; current ownership/portfolio needs source upgrade. Country seed — a starting point for this state, not a national sweep.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Ownership & corporate history
- Founded by Government of Samoa + German brewing partner (name spelling unresolved)1977
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Founding partner name appears with variant spellings in different sources; exact legal name/share structure still requires incorporation records.
- Owned by Government of Samoa1984
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Exact incorporation-date cap table remains to be recovered; owner_group_type kept UNKNOWN because the controlled field has no government category.
- Owned by Government of Samoa1997
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
A rounded published snapshot; do not infer precise intervening transactions from 1994.
- Owned by Carlton Brewery (Fiji) / Carlton BreweriesAugust 1999 – October 1999
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Treasury-derived WS-SRC-0051 independently records 5,712,000 Samoa Breweries shares transferred to Carlton Breweries for SAT$13,137,600. Exact legal buyer wording on the Samoa share-transfer instrument remains held.
- Owned by Carlton Brewery (Fiji)October 1999
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Do not use the 2005 parent-group restructuring as an automatic end date for this direct shareholding without a Samoa share register.
- Owned by Government of Samoa2001
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
The exact date at which the post-1999 Government holding became 15.5% is not established by this table.
- Subsidiary of SABMiller plcDecember 2011 – September 2012
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Indirect parentage through Foster’s/Foster’s Group Pacific; exact Samoa Breweries registered shareholder composition during this window remains a separate cap-table question.
- Owned by Voicea TangataJuly 2022
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
No individual percentage is established. Do not infer exact disposal date or mechanism from CCEP's later 100% group-equity snapshot.
- Owned by Muagututi'a Lafaele Ngau ChunJuly 2022
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
No individual percentage is established. Preserve the six-percent figure only for the reported local-shareholder aggregate, not this person.
- Owned by Fonotoe Lauofo MetiJuly 2022
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
No individual percentage or disposal date is established. Preserve separately from the reported 200+ local-shareholder aggregate.
- Subsidiary of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners groupDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
This is current legal-company ownership after brewing ceased; keep separate from ownership-at-closure of the brewery operation.
- Acquired by Carlton Brewery FijiDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Existing Foster’s filing proves Carlton Brewery Fiji purchased Samoa Breweries during FY1999/2000. Pass 04 adds separate government-share-sale evidence: 51% sold in 1999 and the remaining 15.5% transferred to Carlton Breweries in late 2004; the exact legal linkage/name between those buyer descriptions remains a registry target.
- Owned by Brauhasse International Managementuntil October 1999
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
This proves at least a 12.8% holding immediately before sale; it does not establish Brauhasse's complete earlier shareholding timeline.
- Owned by Grove Internationaluntil October 1999
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
This proves at least a 4.5% holding immediately before sale; earlier acquisition date and ultimate ownership of Grove International remain UNKNOWN.
- Owned by Government of NauruDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Exact acquisition and disposal dates remain UNKNOWN.
- Owned by Small shareholders (remainder)Date unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
The source does not print a percentage for the remainder; approximately 6.7% is arithmetic from the printed 68.3% + 15% + 10% figures and is not stored as an asserted source percentage.
- Acquired by Carlton BreweriesDate unknown
Partly settledCurrent evidence supports this, but the record is not fully resolved.
What the sources say
Government divestment is independently corroborated by IMF Treasury data showing 15.5% Government ownership through 2004 and 0% from 2005. Exact legal purchaser wording on the share-transfer instrument remains to be recovered.
Ownership history is kept as dated events, so a change of owner never overwrites the one before it.
The People
Behind the beer
Key transition-era operator/source lead.
Named shareholder during the 2022 closure/production-relocation dispute; individual share percentage not established.
RNZ identifies him as one of more than 200 local shareholders collectively holding about six percent of SBL in July 2022; individual percentage unknown.
Named by contemporary local reporting as a Samoa Breweries shareholder during the 2022 Fiji-production controversy; individual percentage unknown.
The Beer Library
Beers
Vailima Natural
RetiredLager / breadfruit formulation
(Historical / limited)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →San Miguel (licensed Samoa production)
RetiredLager
(Historical / partial resolution)
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2007
Bronze — American Style Specialty Lager — Vailima Special Export
New Zealand International Beer Awards
- 2004
Bronze — Australasian, Latin American or Tropical-Style Light Lager — Vailima Special Export Lager
World Beer Cup
- 1998
UNKNOWN — award verified — Beer / category unspecified — Vailima (variant unspecified)
Monde Selection
- 1995
UNKNOWN — award verified — Beer / category unspecified — Vailima (variant unspecified)
Monde Selection
- 1992
Gold — Beer / category unspecified — Vailima (variant unspecified)
Monde Selection
- 1990
Gold — Beer / category unspecified — Vailima (variant unspecified)
Monde Selection
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
Straight answers
Common questions about Samoa Breweries
- Who owns Samoa Breweries?
- Samoa Breweries is part of the Coca-Cola Europacific Partners group group. The exact current direct legal owner has not been established in this archive. It is based in , Samoa.
- Is Samoa Breweries still independent?
- No. Samoa Breweries is part of the Coca-Cola Europacific Partners group group and is not independent, though its direct legal owner has not been established.
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