Brewforce is an Indian-based company which has been delivering process and engineering equipment and solutions to breweries and distilleries for 35 years now. Regarding know-how and equipment, they are supported by their German partner Brewforce Brautechnik GmbH.

The privately-owned Coopers Brewery from Adelaide defied falling Australian beer consumption, increased pressure on margins and higher malt prices to achieve record beer sales and revenues for its financial year 2014/15.

Revolving doors at Anadolu Efes: After a little more than a year at the helm, Damian Gammell resigned as President of Beverage Group and CEO of Anadolu Efes on 31 October 2015 to take up his new responsibility as Chief Operating Officer of Coca-Cola European Partners, the recently formed western European Coke bottler. Mr Gammell had only been working as Beverage Group President and CEO of Anadolu Efes since January 2014.

What’s going on at Diageo? After selling some beer assets to Heineken, Diageo continued in its attic clearance mode by offloading the majority of assets from Diageo Wine’s U.S. and UK operations to Australia’s largest winemaker Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) for USD 625 million.

To learn more about the latest technology innovations and processes in raw material handling and grinding, all major Japanese breweries and distilleries attended a seminar of Bühler in Osaka or Yokohama.

Funny that. Asahi seems to value craft beer in Australia but cannot develop the category at home, where craft beer accounted for less than 1 percent of sales in 2013. Not so in Australia, where craft beer is a growth category. No wonder, on 28 September 2015 the Japanese beer giant Asahi bought its second Australian boutique brewer in as many years, taking over the well-established Melbourne-based craft brewer Mountain Goat, founded in 1997.

Most analysts seem to believe that once AB-InBev takes over SABMiller, it will have to sell SABMiller’s 49 percent stake in Chinese brewer CR Snow to appease China’s regulators. Combined, AB-InBev and CR Snow would hold a 38 percent market share. SABMiller, through CR Snow, holds a 23 percent share, while AB-InBev has a 15 percent share.

Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) may reclaim its title as Australia’s biggest brewer in the event of a successful takeover of SABMiller by AB-InBev.

With Brazil and Russia in recession and India not yet living up to its promises, is the fall of China a timely reminder that emerging markets are, well, a risky investment? Many wonder these days: is China going to be the new Russia for global brewers? In retrospect, will 2013 be the last year before things took a turn to the worse? In 2014, China’s beer market shrank to 492 million hl. This translates into a loss of 14 million hl over 2013, says the beer economist Germain Hansmaennel.

What’s going on in China? Last year’s 1.8 percent dip in beer sales could have been a one-off as many blamed it on poor weather. In fact it was the first year-on-year decline since beer sales statistics became available in 1998.