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Because of the deafening outcry among craft beer lovers in the U.S. over AB-InBev’s recent purchases of U.S. craft brewers, AmBev’s purchase of Brazilian craft brewer Wäls barely registered on the takeover “excitetometer”.
Europe/Russia
A “brewer without a brewery” was taken over: The Belgian investment company Gimv has acquired United Dutch Breweries (UDB), together with UDB’s management, from the Dutch investment company Egeria, it was reported on 27 February 2015.
Europe/Russia
The alcohol escalator is causing grief. As of 1 January 2015 the Swedish government hiked the excise on beer to SEK 1.94 per litre for each degree of alcohol. That’s an increase of SEK 0.16. The tax applies to beer in excess of 2.8 % ABV.
Europe/Russia
Thank goodness, there was the Football World Cup in 2014. Its effects made Heineken’s group revenues rise 0.1 percent to EUR 21.2 billion, the brewer reported on 11 February 2015.
Europe/Russia
Would the Kremlin know or care that its politics made a Danish CEO lose heart? Carlsberg announced on 18 February 2015 that its CEO Joergen Buhl Rasmussen, 59, will retire on 15 June this year and be replaced by Cees ’t Hart amid reports of a weakening Russian ruble plus declining beer sales in Russia and the Ukraine, which led to a sharp drop in the brewer’s fourth-quarter profits.
Europe/Russia
What’s become of Pippi Longstocking? In case you are not watching Scandi noir TV series, you would not know that there are only two kinds of Swedish women around: grumpy female cops or anxious female victims.
Europe/Russia
What has happened here? Polish brewing group Zywiec saw a 41 percent decline in 2014 net profits to PLN 159.4 million, following an 11 percent drop in revenues and a 3.6 percent fall in volumes to 10.7 million hl, it was reported on 11 February 2015.
Europe/Russia
U.S. packaging group Ball Corporation wants to buy its UK competitor Rexam, a move that would combine two of the world’s biggest can makers.
Europe/Russia
Looks like craft brewers are about to set new benchmarks for going international. “Have suitcase, 8,000 followers on Twitter, will travel”, is today’s modus operandi.
Europe/Russia
Bavarian brewers and how they like to see the world. When asked when craft beer hit Germany, officials of the Bavarian Brewers Association like to respond: 500 years ago. That’s when the Bavarian Purity Law for beer was implemented (1516).
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