1950s - 1960s
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1959
It all began when Mr. Mikhael Gharios built the La Frutta Factory in the suburbs of Beirut, mainly for packing oranges grown in nearby plantation fields.
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1963
La Frutta introduces its first tin plate filling line for fruit-based products.
1970s
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1974
La Frutta Factory relocates few kilometers away to fulfill the need for a greater space for fruit drinks production with the introduction of new carton packaging line under the Top Juice brand: LibanJus is created.
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1978
The total number of carton filling lines increases from four to ten in order to meet the rising demand from local and eastern European markets.
1980s
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1981
Introduction of the first two glass filling lines for bottle juices under the Top Juice brand.
1990s
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1991
Our ice cream factory is born and we introduced the Iceberg brand with Ice Lollies during the first year.
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1992
With the immediate success of the Iceberg brand, the first Hoyer Straight Line for ice cream production was installed.
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1999
Maccaw was created to meet the demand for 100% juices and premium nectars, and installed two new Tetrapak lines to fill juices in cartons.
2000s
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2003
We created the Uno brand to meet the growing demand for premium nectars and fruit drinks packed both in glass bottles and cartons.
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2005
We introduced the Iceberg milkshakes to complement the ice cream range, which made a breakthrough in the Lebanese market that lacked flavoured milk products.
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2007
We expanded the ice cream range to exceed 55 SKUs in order to serve the most demanding and diversified customer base. 2010s
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2013
A new dairy pilot plant is built to acquire the know-how for Dairy Production. We start selling dairy products under the UNO brand.
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2017
LibanJus buys-out the production lines from NBC (Coca-Cola Aujan). Two additional Juice production lines are installed
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2018
New Dairy factory and milk reception plant is commissioned and our new dairy brand is launched: La Bergère.
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2021
LibanJus launches a new Hazelnut Spread with Cocoa line under the Danway Iceberg brand