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Perhaps it is because I happen to live in Mr Rumsfeld’s Old Europe that I wonder if this Blogger Culture, or Blog Fest, or Blogosphere is not just a lot of intense navel-gazing of zero relevance. If all that collected outrage that can be found on www.stltoday.com/blogzone/lager-heads/ really had an impact on how consumers feel about long-cherished beer brands, surely people would stop buying AB-InBev products.

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The Justice Ministry will follow a recommendation from CADE, as the country’s anti-trust agency is known, and open an investigation of AmBev’s executives, Mariana Tavares, the ministry’s anti-trust division chief was quoted as saying. The probe could result in civil charges against the executives.

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The news of higher beer prices will go down very well with consumers who have been told only a few weeks ago that AB-InBev’s compensation for their 13-member executive board nearly doubled in the first half of the year.

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The four-hour Siebel Institute Sensory Analysis Seminar is designed to train brewers and beer enthusiasts in the process of sensory evaluation of beer.

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The Siebel Institute, in conjunction with the Ethanol Technology Institute, is currently putting together a course in beverage distillation.

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Royal Unibrew (selling under the brands Faxe and Ceres) said on 12 August that it agreed to sell its three Caribbean breweries to the Dominican brewery CND for a total consideration of USD 31 million.

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In a statement, Mr Blaustein said: "This is not a decision that I made overnight. Given my own career aspirations and a different view of how to build our business/portfolio in the current economic climate, I thought it best that we part ways. Heineken USA has a passionate and talented team that will continue to bring success to the business, and I am personally looking forward to starting a new stage in my career."

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The notice of arbitration stated that the transaction between Anheuser-Busch and InBev violated provisions of a 1993 agreement through which Anheuser-Busch took a major stake in Grupo Modelo.

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Readers, should you ever need reassuring that you did the right thing when you joined the brewing industry – read this book. It’s called “Shine on. 100 years of history, legends, half-truths and tall tales about Texas’ most beloved little brewery” by Mike Renfro. Price: USD 23.99.