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Refriango negotiates a company management contract for Sodiba. Workplaces must remain

Angolan beverage company Refriango is preparing to sign a management contract with Sodiba, a factory that produces Luandina beer, which belongs to businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, sources linked to the lawsuit told Lusa.

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The management contract guarantees all jobs and provides that Sodiba's current production is maintained.

An official Sodiba source confirmed that "there is an ongoing negotiation process", the complexity of which involves several entities, may still entail some delay.

"The aim is to preserve jobs, that the factory does not become insolvent and that the Sodiba brands [the Luandina own brand and the Portuguese Sagres, under license from Heineken, which controls the Sociedade Central de Cervejas] are able to continue "he added.

The Sodiba plant in Bom Jesus employs 290 workers.

Sodiba was one of the companies of the daughter of the ex-president, José Eduardo dos Santos, arrested in December 2019, as determined by the Provincial Court of Luanda.

At the time, in addition to the brewery, the preventive seizure of personal bank accounts by Isabel dos Santos, her husband, the Congolese Sindika Dokolo, and the Portuguese Mário da Silva was decreed, in addition to nine companies in which the businesswoman holds stakes.

Sodiba - Sociedade de Distribuição de Bebidas de Angola was founded in October 2013 and started the construction of its factory, in Bom Jesus, in 2014.

Refriango is a company specialized in the production and distribution of soft drinks, juices, water, energy drinks and alcoholic beverages, with a portfolio of more than a dozen brands.

The company owns one of the largest industrial units on the African continent, with 42 hectares, 28 filling lines and a production capacity of more than 2300 million liters per year, creating more than 2000 direct jobs.

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