RESHORING CASE

La Brava Beer

Company details
Code: 
La Brava Beer
Company name: 
La Brava Beer
Company country: 
Spain
Number of employees: 
11
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C11 - Manufacture of beverages
Sub-sectors: 
C11.0.5 - Manufacture of beer
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
19/04/2017
End of Implementation : 
December, 2023
Reshored to: 
Spain
Location of affected unit(s): 
Vulpellac (Baix Empordà)
Location code: 
ES512
Reshored business function: 
Production
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Total
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Reasons for reshoring: 
Proximity to customers
Case narrative: 

La Brava Beer is a Spanish company located in Vulpellac (Baix Empordà), Cirona, Spain. It plans to move its factory in the Czech Republic to Empordà (Spain) and invests eight to ten millions in this new plant by 2023. With this investment, La Brava Beer expects to reach 160,000 liters of production and  900,000 euros turnover this year, and to reach 10 million liters of production by 2023. The company mainly focuses on Girona and Barcelona markets although it also exports its products to France and Australia. By the end of this year, the company will expand 500 more outlets to reach 1000 outlets in Catalonia region. It has recently closed a second round of financing of 264,000 euros to expand production capacity. In May 2017, the company will enter the market of non-alcoholic beer with the product named La Sense.

Sources: 

Lavanguardia, 19/04/2017

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
Czech Republic
Offshored business function: 
Production
Host country geographical area: 
Eastern Europe