November 1989 · 1997 · 1 January 2007 One factory, several ownersJeden závod, viacerí majitelia

The Velvet Revolution ended communist rule in November 1989, and the state breweries were privatised. Šariš was bought by the international group SABMiller in 1997 and merged on 1 January 2007 with the Topvar brewery of Topoľčany; production was later concentrated here, in Veľký Šariš. The company has since passed to the Japanese Asahi group and trades in Slovakia as Plzeňský Prazdroj Slovensko. For a small town, having one very large employer is both a security and a risk at the same time: the jobs are real, and the decisions about them are made in another country.Nežná revolúcia ukončila v novembri 1989 vládu komunistickej strany a štátne pivovary sa sprivatizovali. Šariš kúpila v roku 1997 medzinárodná skupina SABMiller a 1. januára 2007 ho zlúčila s topoľčianskym pivovarom Topvar; výrobu neskôr sústredili sem, do Veľkého Šariša. Podnik odvtedy prešiel k japonskej skupine Asahi a na Slovensku vystupuje ako Plzeňský Prazdroj Slovensko. Pre malé mesto je jeden veľmi veľký zamestnávateľ istotou aj rizikom naraz: práca je skutočná, no rozhoduje sa o nej v inej krajine.