“Producing beer in Uruguay is twice as expensive as in Argentina”

Fábricas Nacionales de Cerveza (FNC) is a Uruguayan company with 155 years of history and more than 700 employees. Beer production is the core of its business, which today is threatened by the country’s lack of competitiveness. In this framework, the company assured that local production lost space in the refrigerators at the hands of its foreign competitors. “In the last five years, national production fell 8% compared to imported ones,” said the CEO of the firm, Benjamin Mountford, adding that the heavy cost structure at the local level also prevents them from projecting abroad.