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In May 2010, Mrs Schörghuber in a rare public statement countered all allegations and announced that she has no plans to take Schörghuber Group public or sell it piecemeal. Instead she announced plans to grow it.
Europe/Russia
In an effort to stave off a ban on advertising, Europe’s brewers are relying on self-regulation. Whether it helps in the long-run remains to be seen.
Europe/Russia
It is not clear how the ban on selling alcohol below cost price could be enforced as retailers would be reluctant to reveal commercially sensitive details of deals with suppliers.
Europe/Russia
“The Times” reported that the Belgian-based global brewer is seeking a buyer for Bass, once Britain’s best-selling beer, at around the GBP 10 million to GBP 15 million mark so that AB-InBev can concentrate on its bigger brands like Budweiser and Stella Artois.
Europe/Russia
Although the UK has been hit hard by the global recession, consumers still wanted to treat themselves to affordable luxuries. This has benefitted the Peroni Nastro Azzurro brand, which tries to differentiate itself from other premium brands through marketing activity not usually associated with the category. Peroni Nastro Azzurro has a design partnership with Alessi and a fashion collaboration with Antonio Berardi.
Europe/Russia
EBITA was up 17 percent in Latin America and 7 percent in North America, where SABMiller is a partner in MillerCoors. In Europe, however, earnings were down 8 percent as lager volume fell by 5 percent.
Europe/Russia
Despite the fact that almost every German brewer has beer mixes in his portfolio, it’s merely a good dozen or so brands which have reached any size and volume.
Europe/Russia
Carlsberg saw a drop in volumes of 7 percent during the first quarter of 2010 to 21 million hl, brought on by a steep decline in eastern Europe. While volume increased 3 percent in northern and western Europe, and 16 percent in Asia, excluding acquisitions, this could not fully offset an organic 27 percent drop in the brewer’s eastern European unit, which includes Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, it was reported.
Europe/Russia
Günter Heyden, the long-time CEO of Germany’s Krombacher Brewery in his highly rated doctoral dissertation on the German beer market * argues that family-capitalist companies may suffer from the disadvantage of slow growth as they do not want to give up management control when merging with another company, but enjoy the advantage that they are not bothered by having to do complex integrations, which could put their corporate culture at risk.
Europe/Russia
Market observers say that Radeberger, a unit of Germany’s privately-owned Oetker Group, paid EUR 50 million for its 70 percent stake. Before its sales dipped, Bionade sold 200 million bottles (660,000 hl) in 2007. Radeberger admitted that the sales decline continued in 2009, but said that it hopes to increase volumes this year in the high single-digits.
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