Developement of privatization proces of brewing industry in the Czech Republic

Brewing industry is an important and traditional part of food and beverage industry and beer is one of the most famous production articles and export commodities. The theoretical and methodological part generally introduces changes in the national economy after the year of 1989 and defines necessary concepts and definitions. Afterwards the process of transformation is described from theoretical point of view. The analytical part presents the structure of the capacity of production in brewing industry before the initiation of the process of privatization and further investigates this process in this field. Then my thesis analyzes the structure of the capacity of production from the end of privatization process until now. Special attention is paid to the process of privatization of companies Plzeňský Prazdroj, a.s, Pivovary Staropramen, a.s, Pivovar Svijany, a.s a Budějovický Budvar, n.p. Finally the development in market share of these breweries on the Czech beer market is compared during the entire period. The aim of the is work an analysis of the privatization process of brewing in the Czech Republic on the example of selected breweries, including the structure of their capacities of production and market share in the reference period