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In recent months there has been continued speculation that Foster’s might merge with Coca-Cola Amatil. The rumour grew so strong that Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) felt compelled to respond to it at their Annual General Meeting on 22 May.
Asia/Australia
Symrise is investing in closer contact with its clients in the Middle East. The world’ s fourth-largest manufacturer of flavourings and fragrances has recently established a presence in Dubai, opening a branch office with 15 employees, whose primary duties will be to conduct local and regional sales as well as to coordinate the attendant marketing work. The new facilities also include two application laboratories, where flavourings and formulations will be adapted to local taste preferences.
Asia/Australia
The tender offer is in line with Kirin’s planned purchase of up to 49 percent of San Miguel Brewery shares, while San Miguel intends to keep a majority stake of at least 51 percent in the beer-making unit.
Asia/Australia
Commentators have argued that the tax was a cynical and selective tax grab when it was introduced last year. It still is. Evidently, the increased cost of alcopops led to people switching to straight spirits. While sales of bourbon-based alcopops dropped by 40 percent in the latter part of last year, business in wholesale bourbon rose by nearly 60 percent.
Asia/Australia
The finding has angered a Barossa Valley vigneron who pioneered the use of the drought-tolerant variety and now has a large volume of labelled product ready for export.
Asia/Australia
Kirin Holdings announced on 27 April 2009 that it has reached an agreement with Lion Nathan’s Independent Board Committee on key terms under which Kirin would acquire all of the issued shares in the Australian brewer that it does not already own.
Asia/Australia
Call it sheer blonde ambition: brewers have lined up other blondes, for example Bondi Blonde, Classic Blonde, Haagen Blonde, Natural Blonde, Platinum Blonde, Virgin Blonde.
Asia/Australia
By 1998, he had rejoined the corporate fold as chief brewer for Lion Nathan, which had acquired the Hahn Premium brand (as well as Hahn Brewing) and supported the new Malt Shovel venture at Camperdown, Sydney, in the original Hahn Brewery. Chuck later passed the role of chief brewer to Bill Taylor in order to focus on the Malt Shovel venture.
Asia/Australia
Mr Cooper said that to ensure the practice of rolling became better known, Coopers had launched a AUD 1 million advertising campaign in its home state of South Australia to highlight the practice and promote the key difference between Coopers Original Pale Ale and most other beers – the cloudy
Asia/Australia
Although non-Japanese alcoholic beverages imported or produced under license make up only a fraction of the domestic market, Kirin hopes to increase its domestic market share through addressing the diversification of personal preferences within Japan’s aging population.
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