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In the early years of Ghana’s industrialization drive post-independence, many business ventures established their footholds in the country to provide primary services that mainly served the indigenous people. One of these service providers was Tata Brewery Limited, the first wholly-owned Ghanaian brewery established by Joshua Kwabena Siaw. His rise-and-fall story …

Joshua Kwabena Siaw, popularly known as J. K. Siaw, was a Ghanaian entrepreneur and industrialist in the 1960s. He established Tata Brewery Ltd, which was later known as Achimota Brewery Company (ABC) and now called Guinness Ghana Brewery. Siaw was born in 1923 in the Eastern Region of Ghana although …