Samuel Ekpenyong has been appointed Production Line Manager at Nigerian Breweries Plc, according to a disclosure on his LinkedIn profile. He steps into the role after just over a year as Production Administrator, a position he held from May 2024.
Ekpenyong joined Nigerian Breweries in July 2008 as a Packaging Operations Senior Supervisor, working at the Ama Brewery in Enugu State. He held that role for over 16 years before moving into production administration. His responsibilities in the new role, as listed on his profile, span production planning and execution, safety control, performance review, TPM implementation, procurement oversight, and production climate management.
The appointment is internal. Ekpenyong has spent his entire professional career at Nigerian Breweries, now approaching 18 years of continuous service at the Heineken subsidiary. His academic background is in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, with an HND from the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, completed in 2014.
TPM, or Total Productive Maintenance, is the operational methodology Ekpenyong lists as a core responsibility. The framework, widely used across Heineken’s global brewery network, focuses on eliminating production losses through cross-functional team involvement and systematic equipment management. Its implementation at plant level typically falls to line managers, making the Production Line Manager role the key operational anchor for TPM execution at any single brewery.
Nigerian Breweries, listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group, recorded revenues of approximately ₦1.467 trillion for full-year 2025, a 35% increase on 2024, according to the company’s annual report. As Drinkabl.media reported, the brewer enters 2026 focused on portfolio expansion and integrating its recently completed acquisition of Distell Wines and Spirits Nigeria.
Ama Brewery, where Ekpenyong spent the bulk of his career, is the company’s largest production site, with a capacity of 3 million hectolitres per year, per company records. The brewery has been central to Nigerian Breweries’ renewable energy push; the 2025 annual report identifies it as a pilot for hybrid and solar energy integration across the group.
Ekpenyong has described his professional focus as centred on production automation and building self-sustaining process structures. His promotion comes as Nigerian Breweries rebuilds after a period of financial strain, having returned to full-year profitability in 2025 following a ₦106 billion pre-tax loss in 2024, per the company’s published financials.
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