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According to the Barth report, almost 93 percent of total beer output was accounted for by the world’s 40 biggest beer-producing countries. The five largest brewing groups, AB-InBev, SAB Miller, Heineken, Carlsberg and China Resource Brewery Ltd., controlled nearly 50 percent of the world beer market.
Europe/Russia
In the past few months, since it was leaked to the press that de Koninck was up for grabs, mainly foreign brewers were rumoured to be interested in buying the struggling brewer, Heineken among them.
Europe/Russia
The program starts with the one-day Sensory Analysis course in which Lyn Kruger, President of Siebel Institute, will instruct participants in the techniques used by brewing industry professionals to assess the positive and negative attributes of beer.
Europe/Russia
For the financial year 2010 Krones expects sales to grow between 10 percent and 15 percent, which translates into full-year sales of between EUR 2.1 billion and EUR 2.15 billion.
Europe/Russia
While the ruling means that AB-InBev cannot get a blanket trademark for the 27-nation European Union as a whole, the brewer can have trademarks in individual EU markets. It was already settled in the past that AB-InBev can keep the Budweiser or Bud name in 23 of the 27 European countries.
Europe/Russia
According to a corporate press release, Premium Wine Brands will be in charge of the development and global strategy of Pernod Ricard’s wine brands. The portfolio includes: Australian wines (Jacob’s Creek), New Zealand wines (Montana and Brancott), as well as Spanish and Argentinean wine brands with international potential (Campo Viejo and Graffigna). The new company’s objective is to accelerate the international development of these brands within the Pernod Ricard distribution network.
Europe/Russia
Brau-Union seems to be a great believer in shunting its beer around the country: having it produced in one place and bottled in another. The announced closure of the Kaltenhausen brewery represents just another affirmation of this strategy as in the course of the next year the production of the Edelweiß wheat beer will be transferred to Brau-Union’s Zipfer Brewery, where it is already being packaged, while production of the Kaiser brand will be relocated to the Wieselburger brewery.
Europe/Russia
Pernod Ricard said that its subsidiary Domecq Bodegas has sold the Spanish wine brands Marqués de Arienzo and Viña Eguίa, the bodega and 358 hectares of vineyards and lands to a consortium of buyers made up of Vinos de los Herederos del Marqués de Riscal and Gangutia for a cash consideration of EUR 28 million on a debt free / cash free basis.
Europe/Russia
In South Africa, where SABMiller has some 90 percent of the market, the company has said it sold an extra 130,000 hl beer during the World Cup. However, volumes in South Africa are below expectations and the country has become an area of concern for the company. After an 8 percent rise in volumes in the previous quarter, to post a flat volume performance in the latest quarter, despite the benefits of the soccer World Cup, is surprising, to say the least. Could it be that beer is losing out to spirits, or is SAB relinquishing market share to Diageo’s and Heineken’s joint venture?
Europe/Russia
Confident that the global beer market would continue to grow unabatedly, the brewing industry placed long-term forward contracts, which led to an increase in hop acreage around the world. From 2007 to 2008 planted acreage increased by more than 12 percent, particularly in Germany and the United States.
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