Efes Beverage Group

Various international brands have been brewed, marketed and distributed in Turkey through Efes Beer Group in recent years, including Miller Genuine Draft as of 2000, Beck's as of May 2002, and Foster's Lager as of March 2005.

These include Stary Melnik, Bely Medved, Gold Mine Beer, Sokol, Krasny Vostok, Vostochnaya Bavaria, Zhigulevskoe, Polniy Nokaut, Green Beer, Dolce Iris, Sib-Beer, Yantarnoe, Solodov, Ershistoe, Barkhatnoe, Bogemskoe svetloe, Ak Bars, in Russia; Karagandinskaya in Kazakhstan; Chisinau, Vitanta Premium Classic in Moldova; Weifert, Weifert Belo, Pils Plus, Zajecarsko Pivo and Standard in Serbia & Montenegro.

[2] Efes Beverage group further produces German Warsteiner, Dutch Bavaria Premium and Amsterdam Navigator, Czech Zlatopramen and Mexican Sol under licence in Russia.

Anheuser-Busch InBev had earlier agreed to sell its stake in a Russian joint venture to its partner, Anadolu Efes, which would become the sole owner of the business, according to a regulatory filing.

[7] However, in August 2024, the Russian government declined to approve the agreement, which would have granted Anadolu Efes full control of the joint venture operating in Russia and Ukraine.

By the end of October, the companies announced plans to separate the joint venture, with Anadolu Efes retaining the Russian operations and AB InBev taking control of the Ukrainian business.

The classic Efes Pilsen bottle
Efes advertisements on umbrellas.