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Some way to finance the takeover of Scottish & Newcastle. At the end of June Danish brewer Carlsberg said that it had sold two mineral water brands in Denmark to Coca-Cola as part of a broader deal with a total sale price of USD 225 million.
Europe/Russia
In June the long-expected roll-out of HRH Prince Luitpold´s Kaltenberg beer by Russia´s number three brewer Ochakovo began.
Europe/Russia
On 11 June 2008 InBev made an unsolicited USD 46 billon offer for the American King of Beers. The response from St. Louis? Anheuser-Busch’s board promised they would look at it.
Europe/Russia
The Jochen Mautner GmbH has ended their regular reports about current developments in the area of malting barley as of spring 2008. Dagmar Hufnagel, correspondent of the “Ernährungsdienst”, Frankfurt/Main will take over the task in future. She has started with her first report on the current situation in malting barley cultivation in April 2008:
Europe/Russia
Radeberger, Germany’s largest privately owned brewing group with 15 breweries in Germany, is building a EUR 20 million brewery in Nuremberg/Fürth. Meanwhile the Frankfurt brewery site is threatened with closure.
Europe/Russia
In a recent interview with the English newspaper The Telegraph, SABMiller’s CEO Graham Mackay was his usual bullish self and called a spade a spade and a beer a beer.
Europe/Russia
Fearing an unhealthy duopoly, the Swiss competition authority could take up to four months to investigate the takeover of the Eichhof brewery by Heineken which would give the Dutch brewer a 29 percent share of the 4.3 million hl beer market.
Europe/Russia
At Carlsberg they are taking their own sweet time. Although they announced massive brewery closures in 2005 already, nothing drastic happened. Now Carlsberg’s top brass seems to be investigating the issue again.
Europe/Russia
An alcohol ban on London’s transport network sparked a party on the Tube that got out of hand.
Europe/Russia
Heineken plans to close one brewery and sell another one in France in order to cut costs.
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BRAUWELT on tour
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