Fruit beverages, long a staple of Americans´ beverage diet, have struggled to keep up with changes in the marketplace, a new report by the Beverage Marketing Corporation says.

On 26 June 2008 Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America, announced that it has successfully closed a transaction with The Coca-Cola Company to acquire its Refrigerantes Minas Gerais Ltda. (“Remil”) franchise territory. The transaction valued at USD 364.1 million, is subject to the customary approval of the antitrust local authorities.

August Busch IV and Carlos Fernandez have very little in common, except that they got their jobs at their respective companies the same way: because they are family.

Summer’s here. Bud Light Lime’s

Anheuser-Busch scored a surprise success with the launch of its Buds Light Lime, a beer that is to compete directly with Miller Chill and Corona Extra.

The search for alternative fuels is taking a crazy turn. Molson Coors is donating fuel made mostly out of beer waste to the Democratic National Convention to be held in Denver from 25 to 28 August at the Pepsi Center.

Anheuser-Busch scored a surprise success with the launch of its Buds Light Lime, a beer that is to compete directly with Miller Chill and Corona Extra.

Following April’s recall of defective 12 ounce beer bottles, Boston Beer, the brewer of Samuel Adams, reported a net loss of more than three million dollars during the first quarter.

In May, Schincartiol agreed to buy the Cintra brands that market leader AmBev had been forced to divest following a competition authority ruling.

For a few weeks now the world’s financial centres have been abuzz with a possible USD 45 billion bid by InBev for Anheuser-Busch.

You thought that with running a brewery you were in the beer business? Apparently not. Goose Island’s brewpub closure proves that you are in the retail business. Because should your neighbourhood suddenly become hip you can fall victim to rising rents.