New brewery to chill Coors' transport costs

Sept. 24, 2004
Coors Brewing Co., Golden, Colo., will spend an estimated $190 million to add brewing operations at its Elkton, Va., packaging and distribution facility.The new brewery, expected to be online by early 2007, will have a capacity of 6-7 million barrels a year, roughly equaling the capacity of the facility's packaging operations. The motivation was to cut transportation costs.

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