Private company

Guinness Ghana Breweries

Logo: Philip Ashon, Corporate Communications Manager of Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Ghanaian brewery

Guinness Ghana Breweries is a Ghanaian brewery founded in 1960, located in the Kaase Industrial Area in Kumasi and listed on the stock index of the Ghana Stock Exchange, the GSE All-Share Index. At its inception, it produced only Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, popularly known as Guinness. In Accra, the brewery is represented at the former premises of Achimota Brewery Company, in Achimota, at the Tata Brewery Ltd, which was established by J. K. Siaw, a Ghanaian industrialist.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1960Founded1
  • Industrybrewing industry1
  • HeadquartersKumasi1

Guinness Ghana Breweries is a Ghanaian brewery founded in 1960, located in the Kaase Industrial Area in Kumasi and listed on the stock index of the Ghana Stock Exchange, the GSE All-Share Index. At its inception, it produced only Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, popularly known as Guinness.2

Products and brands

The company makes the following products:

Malta Guinness

Star Beer

Orijin

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Smirnoff

Alvaro

Gulder

Guinness

Odehye3

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Timeline

  1. 1960Founded Founded1