Empresas Polar is a Venezuelan corporation that started as a brewery, founded in 1941 by Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Fleury, Rafael Lujan and Karl Eggers in Antímano “La Planta de Antimano”, Caracas. It is the largest and best known brewery in Venezuela, but has since long diversified to an array of industries, mostly related to food processing and packaging, also covering markets abroad. Besides Polar Breweries , and Pepsi/Gatorade producing plants, Alimentos Polar has 10 production plants in Venezuela, one in Colombia and one in the United States that distributes all products for Central America, the Caribbean and Europe.