United Breweries Group

United Breweries Group or UB Group is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered in UB City, Bangalore in the state of Karnataka. The company has annual sales of over US$4.5 billion and a market capitalization of approximately US$12 billion. Its core business includes beverages, aviation, electrical and chemical fertilizers. The company markets beer under the Kingfisher brand, and owns various other brands of alcoholic beverages. It also launched Kingfisher Airlines, an airline in India whose operation has been halted after problems in 2014,that led to its licence being revoked by the DGCA. United Breweries is India's largest producer of beer with a market share of around 48% by volume.

The company chairman is Vijay Mallya, who had been a member of the Indian Parliament. United Breweries now has greater than a 40% share of the Indian brewing market with 79 distilleries and bottling units across the world. Recently, UB financed a takeover of the spirits business of the rival Shaw-Wallace company, giving it a majority share of India's spirits business. The group also owns the Mendocino Brewing Company in the United States.