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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information contact:

Luis Eduardo Bravo / Macarena Gili

Investor Relations Department

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A.

www.ccu-sa.com

(56-2) 427-3581 or 427-3416

CCU ANNOUNCES FOURTH QUARTER 2006 VOLUMES

(Santiago, Chile, January 5, 2007) CCU (NYSE: CU) reported today preliminary fourth quarter 2006 consolidated volumes.

The preliminary volume breakout by segment in hectoliters is as follows:

	Fourth Quarter				Year 2006
Chile:	Volumes		% Change		Volumes		% Change
Beer	1,495,963		7.9%		4,707,298		12.9%
Soft Drinks	1,029,900		8.7%		3,466,424		7.5%
Nectars	159,061		27.0%		547,525		23.1%
Mineral Waters	362,923		2.9%		1,168,739		9.1%
Wine Domestic	112,815		-13.3%		463,276		-11.7%
Wine Export1	92,865		10.9%		363,220		-0.4%
Pisco	57,434		-0.8%		204,681		1.0%
Total Chile2	3,310,961		7.4%		10,921,162		9.2%
Argentina:
Beer	828,669		11.2%		2,401,575		7.9%
Wine1-3	10,153		47.1%		40,452		13.7%
Total Argentina	838,822		11.6%		2,442,026		8.0%
TOTAL	4,149,782		8.2%		13,363,188		9.0%

CCU plans to release its consolidated fourth quarter results by the first week of February.

CCU is a diversified beverage company operating principally in Chile and Argentina. CCU is the largest Chilean brewer, the second-largest Argentine brewer, the third-largest Chilean soft drink producer, the second-largest Chilean wine producer, the largest Chilean mineral water producer, one of the largest Chilean pisco producer and also participates in the confectionery industry in Chile. The Company has licensing and/or joint venture arrangements with Heineken Brouwerijen B.V., Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc., PepsiCo Inc., Paulaner Brauerei AG, Schweppes Holdings Limited and Watts S.A. For more information, visit www.ccu-sa.com.