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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.
Europe/Russia
The one million dollar question is: will Germany’s Turks rank patriotic concerns over image? In other words, will they go for an Efes because it’s a Turkish beer brand or would they rather drink Beck’s Green Lemon because it’s fashionable?
Europe/Russia
What is more, pubs also face aggressive competition from supermarkets which are feeding into a drinking-at-home culture and offering prices below that of pubs.
Europe/Russia
Isn’t it a lovely German euphemism: “gesundschrumpfen“. It translates as “shrinking yourself healthy.” Struggling companies employ it when they have to admit defeat and see no other way out than to downsize their operations in a major way. Carlsberg Germany is a case in point. Last year it sold its so-called Fighter Brand Unit including its Feldschlößchen Brewery in Braunschweig, announced that it was looking for a partner to help run its Feldschlößchen Brewery in Dresden more efficiently and began trimming down its brand portfolio to five brands only. Last but not least, it decided to limit its business to the northern part of Germany, to which end it formed a distribution joint venture – Nordic – with distributor Nordmann.
Europe/Russia
Hadn’t it been for Brazil, AB-InBev’s volume output would have dipped significantly in the first quarter especially since it looks like AB-InBev continues to underperform the market in the United States.
Europe/Russia
SABMiller’s beer volumes have been hit by the global downturn while its move to raise prices to cover commodity cost hikes further dampened growth, but falling barley costs and a slow recovery should help the group recover in the second half of 2010.
Europe/Russia
In parts of Great Britain, in Slovakia, in France and in Austria the sowing of spring barley is most advanced by the end of March of 2010. Because of the long winter and the continuing bad weather afterwards, the work had to start some days later in some regions. Nevertheless the sowing was almost everywhere on time. Like every year at that time, the sowing hasn´t started yet in the north of Europe.
Europe/Russia
The Dutch company, whose major brands are Heineken and Amstel, sold 8.0 percent less beer in the first three months of the year, or 5.3 percent on a like-for-like basis. Revenue fell by 3.5 percent to EUR 2.94 billion.
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