In its preliminary full year results for the year ended 31 March 2008, SABMiller said price increases helped it to offset rising costs, post higher volumes and revenues.

After years of family feuding, which almost put the famous Kölsch brewery Gaffel on the block, the family members announced on 29 April 2008 that the brewery was not for sale – for the time being, at least.

The 1,400 exhibitors and 34,000 visitors expected at BRAU Beviale 2008 from 12 to 14 November can look forward to a real event. At this year’s most important international exhibition for the beverage industry, the focus is naturally on market developments and the preparation of investment decisions in the product segments of beverage raw materials, technologies, logistics and marketing.

Sixteen years after the fall of the Swiss beer cartel and eight years after the sale of Feldschlösschen to Carlsberg, the last of the large Swiss breweries is to change hands.

Sales were up 17.9 percent on the same quarter last year, reaching EUR 595.2 million. Order bookings climbed 9.0 percent to EUR 607.3 million. On 31 March 2008, Krones’ order backlog totalled EUR 903.0 million, 13.0 percent up on the previous year.

Looks like InBev will soon re-open the Hoegaarden brewery which it closed two years ago.

After opening its doors in January 1998, Sidel India now has 105 employees in three locations: Pune (offices and manufacturing), Gurgaon (New Delhi), and Mumbai, where sales, services, and engineering are located.

Krones AG, Neutraubling, Germany, demonstrates a sense of responsibility for the world in which we live, and is manifesting this in a programme for sustainability. The world’s market leader is fully aware of its role as a technology trend-setter in the beverage industry’s filling and packaging operations. Krones has, of course, already been purposefully and voluntarily practising social responsibility above and beyond its actual business operations, thus making a contribution towards sustainable commercial success. With the newly created “enviro” brand, the economic, ecological and social efforts now become visibly tangible. With enviro, Krones has taken sustainability fully on board.

At the beginning of May 2008, Flottweg AG, based in Vilsbiburg, Germany, will celebrate its 75th anniversary. Growing from a small, typically Bavarian company to an international one has been a varied and eventful journey. Immediately following World War II, manufacturing aircraft was no longer permitted in Germany; therefore, Flottweg produced vertical gutters for the printing industry instead. Later, in the mid-fifties, Flottweg began developing and fabricating decanter centrifuges (solid bowl scroll centrifuges).

A partnership of the Siebel Institute of Technology and Doemens Academy, the World Brewing Academy will hold its English-language WBA Concise Course in Brewing Technology from 2 to 13 June 2008 at the Doemens Academy in Munich.