Advantis - unlocking production potential

Today’s beverage market is much more dynamic than ever before. Various market surveys show that the average market life of a beverage brand has decreased from the 8 - 10 years observed in the eighties, to 4 - 5 years. This trend is compounded with a dramatic increase in portfolio diversification. The result is an extraordinary increase in the level of operational risk.

ACE Drinks, Iced Tea’s, Functional Drinks and a plethora of new carbonated soft drinks or mixes have erupted on to the market. The current production capacities are exploited to the full and 100% line efficiency is expected - and then comes the Marketing department with another new product.
The investment in new filling equipment is too risky and the existing line is running at maximum capacity. ...

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Filling technology for beer in plastic bottles Oxygen pick-up is crucial

All the indications are there that the beer market, both national and international, will in the medium term enter a phase in which the sales of beer in plastic bottles (including the smaller-volume sizes) will assume ever-greater significance. According to independent sources, 3.5% of worldwide beer sales may already be being filled in PET containers by 2005. The state-of-the-art of the according technology is described in this article.

Plastic bottles for beer have both advantages and disadvantages. Chief among the former are their low weight, their robustness, their flexible design options, their transparency and their dimensional accuracy.
Plastic bottles cannot, moreover, be heated up too far, i.e. they cannot in general be pasteurised either...

Heineken and Lion Nathan join force

True to its words to form alliances on a country-by-country basis, Heineken and Lion Nathan have formed a joint-venture - Heineken Lion Australia - which brings the companies together in a sales and distribution deal with the aim to possibly brew Heineken and other Heineken company brands in Lion Nathan’s Australian breweries. The joint-venture will be fully operational by 1 July 2004.
According to a company report, the joint-venture creates an extensive distribution platform, whereby a precinct sales force has been established to sell the combined portfolio of brands in the major metropolitan areas (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth). In addition the existing Lion Nathan sales force will sell the Heineken brand in other non-metropolitan areas.

Krones on growth track

Considering that the market for beverage packaging and filling machinery valued at EUR20 billion in 2000 has declined 3,4 percent this year according to estimates, it is no small feat that Krones has been able to beat this trend. Despite a sluggish macro-economic environment, stagnating markets and increasing pressure on prices, the Krones Group has been able to stay on growth track. The world’s market leader for beverage bottling lines and packaging machinery, headquartered in Neutraubling, Bavaria, has managed for the fourth time in a row to outperform the previous year’s figures in terms of turnover, order bookings and profits. In 2003 the demand for Krones’ machines, systems and services has been higher than ever.1 percent to EUR1.1 billion. In the same period, turnover rose 8..

Recent developments in the global beer market

Although Europe reigns supreme as the largest beer-producing region, the faster-growing Asian markets have prevented it from significantly enlarging its share of worldwide volume. Indeed, Asia has been responsible for much of the global growth and is the focus of considerable industry activity.
In 2002, global beer volume exceeded 1.4 billion hectoliters, according to Beverage Marketing Corporation’s Global Beer Report: A Worldview. Europe’s 500 million hectoliters of beer represented 35.0% of the world’s beer. In 2001, the region’s 489 million hectoliters represented 34.8% of global volume. In 2001, the region’s 309.1 million hectoliters represented only 22.0% of total global beer volume.
Asia, in contrast, has advanced. Volume share in Asia and the Middle East grew from 23.S.

Based on extensive experience

From Germany into the world. No other brand of German beer has been able to rack up such success on the international parquet as the Beck’s brand from the Brauerei Beck & Co, Bremen.

The reason for this high degree of internationality is certainly based largely on the brewery’s origins. Freedom, adventure, pioneering spirit, and internationality - characteristics that symbolize the brand today and describe the company’s founder Heinrich Beck, who together with Lüder Rutenberg established the "Kaiserbrauerei Beck & Co." in the year 1873 after gaining extensive experience in the USA. It was thanks to his efforts that this Bremen beer quickly found its way to Asia, Africa, Australia, and the east coast of the United States. Beck & Co. A decisive cost-cutting aspect.

New batch process for beer recovery from excess yeast

Breweries have always been very interested in separating beer from excess yeast suspensions as it is possible to recover high quality beer from oftentimes discarded excess yeast by-product. A new system has been introduced which makes economic utilisation of this technology feasible, also in smaller breweries.

Gone hunting. Yesterday Africa, tomorrow the world - SABMiller becomes the global number 2 brewer

"We are a lean, mean, fighting machine." Graham Mackay chose his words carefully. And then acted on them. A year ago he announced that South African Breweries would buy a first world brewer. Finally, this past May the developing market brewer took over the second largest brewer of the US, Miller Brewing Company, to become SABMiller.

A lean, mean, fighting machine." A CEO who likens his company to a boxer. Such a CEO is hard to find. Certainly among brewers whose executives from St. Louis to Tokyo will do just about anything to soften their company’s image around the edges to appear cuddly and wholesome, i.e. politically correct, ecologically conscientious and socially accountable. It takes someone who is big-game-sure or ... Graham Mackay. Hence the American connection....

The decline of gentlemanly capitalism Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries and the consolidation of the UK beer market

The tweed jacket once worn by the gentleman brewer: in the attic. The gentleman banker’s pinstripe suit and bowler hat: donated to Oxfam. Gentleman brewer and banker have disappeared. With them have gone the British brewing industry and the British investment banks.

The gentleman banker conjures up an image of a middle-aged man in the City’s mufti, giving sage advice to well-heeled private clients. Among his clients would have been a gentleman brewer, who spent his life at his club, his country house, his brewery... and occasionally in the City to discuss investment opportunities. For centuries, British business and politics have reflected the values of the four pillars of society: the aristocracy, the clergy, the bourgeoisie and the "beerage", the so-called beer aristocracy.P...