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Other non-financial assets (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Other non financial assets [Abstract] |
Disclosure of detailed information about other non financial assets [Text Block] | The Company maintained the following other non-financial assets:
|  | As of December 31, 2017 |  | As of December 31, 2016 |
|  | Current |  | Non current |  | Current |  | Non current |
|  | ThCh$ |  | ThCh$ |  | ThCh$ |  | ThCh$ |
Insurance paid |  |  | 3,348,593 |  |  | - |  |  | 3,038,856 |  |  | - |
Advertising |  |  | 7,383,730 |  |  | 3,632,423 |  |  | 5,968,072 |  |  | 2,567,939 |
Advances to suppliers |  |  | 3,643,691 |  |  | - |  |  | 5,117,220 |  |  | - |
Guarantees paid |  |  | 59,452 |  |  | 242,535 |  |  | 50,590 |  |  | 227,738 |
Consumables |  |  | 446,565 |  |  | - |  |  | 438,979 |  |  | - |
Dividends receivable |  |  | 353,150 |  |  | - |  |  | 245,073 |  |  | - |
Recoverable taxes (1) |  |  | - |  |  | 786,808 |  |  | - |  |  | 1,231,414 |
Prepaid expenses |  |  | 583,165 |  |  | 755,703 |  |  | 997,643 |  |  | 686,467 |
Other |  |  | 15,879 |  |  | 14,166 |  |  | 4,861 |  |  | 14,164 |
Total |  |  | 15,834,225 |  |  | 5,431,635 |  |  | 15,861,294 |  |  | 4,727,722 |
(1) Corresponds to the tax profit minimum and VAT credit exporter, both registered in the argentine subsidiaries, whose term of recovery is estimated over a year.

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