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Hasso Kämpfe, Jägermeister’s CEO, who was in charge of turning the German bitter Jägermeister into a cool beverage for twentysomethings, decided not to extend his second five-year contract but to leave the company because, as he said, he wanted to do other things in his life.
Europe/Russia
Only a few weeks after it was fined almost EUR 220 million for having set up a Dutch beer cartel in the 1990s, Heineken announced that it will file an appeal against the decision of the European Commission.
Europe/Russia
Someone seems to take a great interest in keeping the rumour mill running. This time it was an unidentified source in Belgium which claimed that a merger between InBev and U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch is inevitable in the long run.
Europe/Russia
Germany’s Radeberger Group sells its Czech Brewery to Heineken expecting that the Czech premium brand Krusovice will benefit from Heineken’s global marketing and distribution expertise.
Europe/Russia
In June the European Court of Justice ruled that Systembolaget, the monopolist alcohol retailer, had no right to prevent citizens from importing alcohol from other EU countries.
Europe/Russia
This report summarizes the EBC Barley Field Trials for Crop 2006. It is based on the comments of the 4 regional chairmen, and is intended to highlight varieties tested that may be of interest to the malting and brewing industry.
Market
Where will the path of beer innovations lead to? What possibilities are already available now, what does the future hold? The desire to develop (or to have to develop) “beery” beverages today that consumers will request tomorrow involves many risks.
Europe/Russia
Money. It can’t buy you love, but perhaps a pint of beer in one of London’s more fashionable watering holes. At three pounds a glass, beer has become very “reassuringly expensive” indeed. No sarcasm intended. In a city where a broom cupboard can fetch GBP 180 000, pubs have become prime property. Or why should anybody be interested in the beer business if it were not for the value of pubs? The property developers love them because they know how to squeeze the assets, the pub companies love them because they like the steady cash flow. As do the bankers and investors who back the pub companies. The brewers are probably regretting the day they were forced to sell their pub estates. By the way, does anyone still care about the beer? Thank you for asking: That’s what the CAMRA guys are for.
Reviews
Belgian brewer InBev is seeking a buyer for its majority stake in real estate subsidiary ImmoBrew.
Europe/Russia
Measuring oxygen transmission through PET bottle walls remains the benchmark test for barrier equipment qualification. The Systech 8700 was originally designed to meet the challenge of faster and less costly OTR testing of ACTISTM treated PET bottles. When Sidel launched the ACTIS™ 48 machine, its high output, in excess of 30,000 bottles/hour, overwhelmed conventional methods for qualification and quality tracking, even relying on statistical sampling.
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