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Should Jim Koch, the founder and public face of Samuel Adams beer ever seek a career change, he should consider becoming a motivational speaker.
Asia/Australia
The Brewers Association may boast that craft beer exports are growing by double digits, but on close inspection one can see which brands are actually benefitting from foreign markets’ pull: they are AB-InBev’s “crafty brands”. Last year already its Goose Island beers were sitting prominently on Dutch and Belgian supermarket shelves.
Asia/Australia
The 40th anniversary of the introduction of the Jacob’s Creek range by Orlando Wines in 1976 was marked by a feature in the Adelaide press which related the history of this now very popular Australian brand.
Asia/Australia
Call it frontier spirit. A company owned by Western Australian grain growers and the Indonesian billionaire Anthony Salim is currently constructing an AUD 90 million (USD 64 million) malting plant in Vietnam that is likely to change the face of the local brewing industry.
Europe/Russia
It’s a miracle. In 2015, German brewers are estimated to have sold as much beer as in the previous year (95 million hl), without there having been a special “beerable” event like the World Football Championship in 2014. Actually, it’s not a miracle at all. German brewers just did what they have been doing for long: they notched up the promotion rate. During the first half of 2015, Germany’s top 10 pils brands sold 76 percent of their volume on offer. In 2010, only 60 percent of their volume was sold at a discount.
Europe/Russia
All is fair in love and war. Company auctions are usually hush-hush affairs. But not for ThaiBev. It let it be known on 25 January 2015 that it has used its Singapore listed unit Fraser and Neave (F&N) to “bid without condition” for SABMiller’s Peroni and Grolsch beer brands. One day later F&N confirmed on its website that it has expressed an interest.
Europe/Russia
Given that in Italy, a country of about 60 million drama queens, bad news tend to be greeted by loud screams of “the end is near”, the quasi silence which followed the announcement that the beer brand Peroni was to be sold, still appears remarkable.
Asia/Australia
Trust Australian journalists to go snooping after Lion’s figures as soon as the market-leading local brewer submits its financial results with the corporate regulator. On 26 January 2015 media revealed that the Lion-Heineken joint venture suffered a 16 percent fall in annual profits in its latest financial year (ended 30 September 2015) as net profit after tax dropped to AUD 10.5 million (USD 7.5 million) from AUD 12.5 million a year earlier. However, sales increased 2.5 percent to AUD 67.4 million (USD 47.7 million) in the financial year 2015.
The Americas
They are wowing the world. As of 1 December 2015 there were 4144 breweries operating in the U.S., the most ever, says the Brewers Association. According to historians, the previous high-water mark of 4131 was back in 1873.
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Karl Josef Eden from Lauingen passed on unexpectedly and much too soon shortly after his 60th birthday.
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