World beer market 2011 grew 2.7 percent

Growth in the world beer market picked up to reach 2.7 percent in 2011, thanks to increased beer consumption in emerging markets, industry research group Plato Logic reported on 8 February 2012.

Plato Logic also forecasted that beer consumption would grow 2.5 percent this year.

That’s broadly in line with global economic growth. On 18 January 2012 the World Bank said that global growth is now projected at 2.5 percent in 2012 and 3.1 percent in 2013. Using purchasing power parity weights, global growth would be 3.4 percent and 4.0 percent for 2012 and 2013, respectively

For 2011, there was no change in the volume ranking of the world’s four biggest brewers with AB-InBev retaining top spot followed by SABMiller, Heineken and Carlsberg. The top four brewers held a combined global market share of around 50 percent.

The rest of the top ten brewers in order includes Tsingtao, Beijing Yanjing, Mexico’s Grupo Modelo , Molson Coors , Japan’s Kirin and Turkish Anadolu

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