Who is carrying the can?

A can of carbonated ice tea will cost you 25c deposit. A can of ice tea without fizz none. While a can of coke has a deposit of 25c on it, a can of coke with enough whiskey added to it does not. By the way sausages or peanuts in tins are deposit-free. RTD

Beating a retreat

Like an eager pupil trying to draw his headmistress' attention, Carlsberg Breweries let it be known that it too was keen to take part in the consolidation process of the German brewing industry. However, while Interbrew and Heineken were busy buying up br

Doing a Hamlet

Though this be madness, yet there's method in it. Or why should Brau & Brunnen's recent shopping spree go uncommented by Germany's media? Many years ago when Brau & Brunnen, which is majority-owned by HVB, one of Germany's major banks, started gobbling up

Waited too long

Will he, will he not? Sell Holsten, that is. Although Holsten’s major shareholder Christian Eisenbeiss (47) declared only weeks ago that he was not going to sell his 48%-stake in Holsten, which is Germany’s number two brewing group (9.8 m hl), pundits bel

On the right track

Carlsberg proved very bullish when it reported its second quarter 2003 results (until 30 June 2003) on 15 August. Its strategic priorities were to achieve market leadership in core markets with the focus on western Europe, eastern Europe and Asia, the sta

Budweiser meets the budget, drives a car, kicks a ball

A growing state budget deficit in the Czech Republic has the Social Democrat government looking for funds anywhere they can - including the sale of the state-owned Budweiser-Budvar brewery, writes Lyle Frink from Prague. Faced with a public sector defici

Board reshuffle

According to Belgian media, it was to be expected that Luc Missorten, Interbrew's Chief Financial Officer would leave the company " to pursue business opportunities outside the company." After 13 years with Interbrew he was apparently held responsible for

Focus on new plants: Hartwall, Lahti/Finland. Modern highly flexible filling centre for soft drinks

With an overall investment of some 225 million Euro, a mega project is currently under construction in Lahti for the leading Finnish Hartwall brewing group. It is still a building site. A part is already in operation: the high-bay warehouse, links with

Polish big player with great ambitions. SABMiller’s subsidiary Kompania Piwowarska on the road to success

It was one of the great moments in the history of the brewing trade when the Miller Brewing Company, a Philip Morris subsidiary, merged with South African Breweries plc to become SABMiller plc. On the one hand, South African Breweries plc, the world’s fourth largest brewing company to date and the Miller Brewing Company, the second biggest brewery in the United States on the other. With a total volume of 120 million hectoliters, new brewing giant SABMiller now ranks second following Anheuser-Busch among the players in the world’s beer market. SABMiller has 111 breweries in 24 countries and a workforce of over 37,500 employees.

In light of truly impressive global figures, attention is frequently diverted from local market developments.5 percent. With sales totaling 5.

Gillette man

Please let us introduce you to the gallery of executive types: there is Teflon Man (with whom nothing sticks) and there are Suits (indescribably boring). But here comes Gillette Man. Nomen est omen. Incidentally, Scottish & Newcastle’s new Chief Executive Officer, Tony Froggatt, 54, once worked for The Gillette Company. So he should know which tasks lie ahead of him. Having been with Cinzano, IDV, and most recently with the Seagram group where he was Executive President for Europe, Middle East & Africa, Mr Froggatt has wide experiences in the global drinks industry. Sir Brian Stewart, who was appointed Chief Executive in 1991 and has been Executive Chairman since 2000, has handed over executive responsibilities to Tony Froggatt, and will become non-executive Chairman from 1 July 2003.