Deep-Dive Report: The Last Empire — Inside the €7 Billion Castel Group, Africa's Biggest Brewer, and the Family War Now Headed to a Singapore Court

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Deep-Dive Report: The Last Empire — Inside the €7 Billion Castel Group, Africa's Biggest Brewer, and the Family War Now Headed to a Singapore Court — Sources: Billionaires.Africa

The Castel Group is Africa's biggest brewer outside South Africa, sells ~€7 billion a year, and almost no one has heard of it. Now the 99-year-old founder's heirs are at war with the CEO he installed — fought inside a Singapore trust, headed for a courtroom this autumn.

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Deep-Dive Report: The Last Empire — Inside the €7 Billion Castel Group, Africa's Biggest Brewer, and the Family War Now Headed to a Singapore Court

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