It was founded in 1932 and since 2002 has been a brand of the Mozambican brewing group Cervejas de Moçambique, itself an Anheuser-Busch InBev subsidiary.

He subsequently expanded production to include soft drinks and also aimed to produce the first Mozambican beer.

It did not face serious domestic competition until 1962, when it was joined by the beer brand 2M, today the undisputed market leader.

Laurentina beer, however, was produced continuously, despite the only slowly decreasing difficulties, even if the at times very low production could not nearly meet the demand of the capital alone.

[6] After the end of the People's Republic of Mozambique in 1990 and the subsequent market-economy restructuring of the economy, Laurentina was then privatized in 1995 and sold to the French BGI/Groupe Castel.

[5][7] After its foundation in 1932, Laurentina also sold part of its production to nearby South Africa, for which Mozambique was a popular vacation destination, especially from the 1920s to the mid-1970s.