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The world’s number two brewer is to lose two of its longest-serving stalwarts: André Parker, Managing Director of SABMiller Africa and Asia, and Norman Adami, President and CEO SABMiller Americas, will both be retiring from the company in the coming months.

Michael Jackson, the Beer Hunter, died 30 August 2007, aged 65

On 13 April, after approval by the antitrust authorities, Huppmann AG officially became part of the Process Engineering Division of GEA Group AG.

As of 15 August 2006, Esko Pajunen (60), currently Senior Vice President, Research & Development at Sinebrychoff in Finland, will take up a new position as Director, Applied Research at Carlsberg Research Centre in Copenhagen. By 15 June 2007, Esko will be appointed Director of the Carlsberg Research Centre thereby succeeding Klaus Bock who will retire as Director of Research after 14 years at Carlsberg....

Paul Bergqvist, Deputy CEO of the Carlsberg group, celebrated his 60th birthday on January 14, 2006. He came to Carlsberg in that position when Carlsberg acquired Orkla Beverages in 2001 and had previously been CEO of the latter company. In his role as Deputy CEO of Carlsberg he has also been especially responsible for development of business activity in the important markets in the former Soviet Union, the rest of Eastern Europe and in Asia.

The 4th World Beer and Drinks Forum, organised by Rüdiger Ruoss in Munich on September 10th and 11th, 2005 took place under the motto “Visionaries and their Visions”. As emphasized by Dr. Richard Weber, President of the German Brewers’ Association, in his welcoming speech, Ruoss, one of the great communicators and the organiser of communication in the beverage industry, succeeded in inviting more than 750 top decision-makers in the industry to Munich. Almost 1 billion hl of beer output were represented.

Reno Cruz, President and CEO of KHS, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A., has been appointed as the fourth member to the managing board of KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG, Dortmund. Mr Cruz, whose career at KHS began as early as the year 1978, will thus be playing an exceptionally important double role within the company group. His future area of responsibility will include sales for the entire American market, where Mr Cruz’s appointment is to boost the KHS managing board’s representation in particular.

As of January 1st, 2004 Mr Willem Onno Jalink (1959) has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Boortmalt Group. The Boortmalt Group has interests in the malting industry and in grain terminals. The appointment of Mr Jalink will secure the necessary continuity in Boortmalt’s search for growth and expansion. Mr Jalink has covered for many years different responsibilities and areas within Hein-eken in Europe, Africa and Asia. From the end of 1999 he was representative Director of Hein-eken Japan. Between 1996 and 1999 he held the post of Commercial Director responsible for beer and malt at Heineken Slovensko in Slovakia. Boortmalt with a capacity of 300,000 tonnes is one of the leading forces in the malting industry and has production units in Belgium, Croatia and China.

Rolf Dickhoff is the new manager of KHS Till GmbH as of 1 October 2003. Mr Dickhoff began his career in 1988 as sales manger at KHS Till GmbH and has played a leading role in positioning KHS Till as the world market leader in the field of keg racking technology. Volker Borngäber and Edgar-George Petsche, who have been active in sales at KHS Till in the past and who are very well known among customers around the globe will be in charge of sales in the future.

Lupofresh Ltd and Morris Hanbury Ltd are delighted to announce that Neil Mustill, John Smith and Mrs. Gill Brown have been appointed Directors of both companies with effect from 8th September 2003.

To Harald Wildhagen on the occasion of his 60th birthday
A flash evaporator unit has been in operation since summer 2002 in Gilde Brauerei in Hanover. The unit supplied by Ziemann was installed between whirlpool and wort cooler. On the one hand, this did not involve any interference in the “wort boiling” system. On the other hand, this is the only location assuring stripping of DMS reconstituted in the whirlpool. The objective of the installation was to significantly reduce boiling time from the previous 70 min so as to achieve technological and energy-related improvements.

The main energy user in the brewhouse is wort boiling. This has always been at the centre of attention when trying to save energy. The most important factors influencing wort boiling are shown in Fig. 1.5%.

Nepotism, favouritism, brinkmanship. Power corrupts. It always did and it always will, say the cynics. De Keersmaeker is proof that there can be exceptions to the rule. Power is all about quid pro quo deals, commonly known as "backscratching". "I scrat

Everybody wants to do the right thing, but many fail badly. Dynastic successions seem natural, don’t always come to fruition but often raise an eyebrow. Especially if the heir apparent is being passed over in favour of a manager. As happened at the world’s major brewer, Anheuser-Busch.

In the sceptre is passed on safely, all’s well that ends well. But what if the sceptre is dropped and goes to pieces? Well, that’s material for a tragedy which will move people to tears even centuries later. Remember King Lear and his three daughters? If you will, Lear’s tragedy is also the story of a succession gone wrong. When in old age, Lear decides to retire and chooses to share out his kingdom among his heirs, he unknowingly kicks off the dramatic action." (King Lear, Act I).
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They all want to make it. Some by fixing it, selling it, or killing it. Like Jack Welch, America’s former Superstar CEO. Others by using their charms, chutzpah and courage to spearhead a new movement. Like Pete Slosberg, who became a prominent figure in the US microbrewing scene. Today Welch is an old age pensioner and Slosberg an earthbound highflyer. Time has swept over them. But not over Carlos Alvarez, who worked long and hard to make Corona a household name and rescue struggling beer brands from extinction.

They all want to make it. They want riches, luck and success and if possible some fame. That’s the meaning of the American Dream. Germans like to eat well or to sleep well. They seek conspicuous consumption or social security. To some extent they are not wrong.
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