South Africa | AB-InBev has suffered over recent quarters in South Africa not least because of a depressed consumer economy. During the first quarter 2019, domestic beer sales declined by “mid-single digits”.

South Africa | Zimbabwe’ listed beer and beverage company, Delta Corp, in which AB-InBev is a major shareholder with a 38.2 percent stake, will buy Diageo’s South African sorghum beer-brewer, United National Breweries (UNB).

South Africa | It was a timely move. Faced with a weakening economy, a heavy tax load and powerful rivals like AB-InBev and Heineken, South Africa’s craft brewers have finally come together and established an industry body called Craft Brewers Association South Africa (CBASA). It is led by a committee of industry stalwarts Brian Stewart, Wolfgang Koedl, Troye May, Nick Smith, and Apiwe Nxusani Mawela.

South Africa | Being a craft brewer in South Africa is not for the fainthearted. Dealing with small pockets of consumers, widespread ignorance as to what craft beer is and a hostile economic environment will be challenging, say Apiwe Nxusani Mawela, Brian Stewart, Wolfgang Koedl, Troye May, and Nick Smith, who form CBASA’s committee, in an interview with BRAUWELT International.

Mozambique | AB-InBev will start building a two million hl brewery, estimated at USD 200 million, in the second half of next year, the company said on 7 August 2018.

South Africa | What are we to make of AB-InBev’s launch of Carling Black Label beer in a one litre bottle for only ZAR 19 (USD 1.51)? Is it AB-InBev’s attempt to hike its volume sales through disguised discounting?

South Africa | Farmers in South Africa have filed a complaint with the country’s competition watchdog about AB-InBev’s decision to change its pricing formula for buying malting barley, media reported on 7 May 2018. Reportedly, farmers worry the new formula will leave them worse off.

Kenya | East African Breweries (EABL), which is majority-owned by drinks company Diageo, will start producing Diageo’s rum brand Captain Morgan locally as part of wider investments in its spirit business in response to growing demand.

Congo | It may be strange that in a country like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has been ravaged by wars almost incessantly since it gained independence from Belgium in 1960, brewers continue to thrive. But this is the case. In 2016, the country’s two brewing groups managed to brew an estimated 4.6 million hl beer, according to the Barth Report.

Every little step counts. In an effort to balance its carbon emissions, the South African craft brewer Darling Brew, located in the village of Darling about 70 km north of Cape Town, is aiming to offset a total of 688 tons of CO₂ over the next year of production. This will be equivalent to the elimination of the same amount of carbon from the environment as that achieved by growing 17,000 tree seedlings for ten years.