Executives from South Korea’s Hitejinro Brewery have told President Danilo Medina of their interest in investing in the Dominican market to export beer. The venture would create jobs in the country.
They met with the President in the Presidential Palace yesterday, Tuesday 25 March together with the Minister of Economy, Planning and Development Temistocles Montas.
At the press conference that followed, Montas said that they had a large-scale business producing alcoholic beverages in South Korea and they had been importing beer for a while through the Barcelo group.
Montas went on to say that maybe shortly we would see Barcelo beer in the shops here in the country and the plan was eventually to build a brewery in the Dominican Republic to not only supply the local market, but other countries in the region as well.
The president of Hitejinro brewery, Yang In Jip said that they were looking for a long-term relationship and wanted to increase the size of their operations in the country.
The participants in the meeting also included Hitejinro vice president You Bo-hyung, Latin American director Moon Byung Kyung, and Barcelo Group management board chairman Jose Miguel Barcelo.
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