Exhibit (a)(1)(I)
Free translation of the Aviso de Inicio
NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT
TENDER OFFER FOR THE ACQUISITION OF SHARES
PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH 5TH OF ARTICLE 198 OF LAW No. 18,045
OF
COMPAÑÍA CERVECERÍAS UNIDAS S.A.
REGISTRATION IN THE SECURITIES REGISTRY No. 7
CONTROLLER IN TURN OF VIÑA SAN PEDRO TARAPACÁ S.A.
REGISTRATION IN THE SECURITIES REGISTRY No. 393
BY
INVERSIONES Y RENTAS S.A.
Inversiones y Rentas S.A. (“IRSA” or the “Offeror”) hereby offers to purchase up to 16,390,172 shares in COMPAÑÍA CERVECERÍAS UNIDAS S.A. (“CCU” or the “Company”), representing approximately 4.44% of its equity capital, at the price of Ch$6,800 (six thousand eight hundred pesos) per share, under the terms and conditions set forth in this commencement notice (the “Offer”).
1. IDENTIFICATION OF THE OFFEROR AND PARTICIPATION IN THE ISSUER
1.1. Identification of the Offeror
Inversiones y Rentas S.A., Tax ID No 96,427,000-7, is a closely held corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of Chile, with place of business at Enrique Foster Sur 20, 14th floor, borough of Las Condes, Santiago, Metropolitan Region. It was incorporated by means of public deed dated August 2, 1985, at the Santiago Notarial Office of Mr. Andrés Rubio Flores, the excerpt of which was registered in the Commerce Registry of Santiago on page 13,281, number 6,855, corresponding to the year 1985 and published in the Official Gazette on August 28, 1985.
The legal domicile of the Offeror is Santiago. Its corporate purpose consists in (a) the investment in all kinds of personal and real property, managing and receiving their fruits, as well as the purchase and acquisition, sale and disposal of all types of credits, shares and movable securities, in general; (b) the administration (either directly or through third parties) of all types of personal or real property, tangible or intangible, and may perceive its fruits; (c) the exploitation of all industrial, agricultural, forestry, mining, commercial and transport activities; (d) the provision of technical, commercial, industrial, agricultural, forestry, mining and transport advisory services; (e) the import and export, purchase and sale, on its own account or on the account of third parties, of goods, articles, products and raw materials of the industrial, agricultural, forestry, mining, transport and trade sectors; (f) take domestic or foreign representations of companies linked to the agricultural, forestry, mining, transport and trade industries; and (g) the formation of companies related to the commercial, industrial, agricultural, forestry, mining and transport sectors, being able to incorporate into other companies established of these areas.
1.2. Controller of the Offeror
The Offeror’s only shareholders are Quiñenco S.A. and Heineken Chile Limitada, each of them holding 50% of the equity capital of IRSA, who controls CCU. Thus, Quiñenco S.A. and Heineken Chile Limitada are members of the controller of CCU.
Quiñenco S.A., tax ID No. 91,705,000-7 is a publicly traded corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of Chile, which main purpose are investments, and which legal domicile is Santiago. 82.9% of the issued and paid stock of Quiñenco S.A. is owned by the companies Andsberg Inversiones Ltda., Ruana Copper A.G. Agencia Chile, Inversiones Orengo S.A., Inversiones Consolidadas Ltda., Inversiones Salta SpA,