Indians sip only two liters of beer a year, just one-twentieth the amount consumed by Chinese and less than one-fortieth by Americans. SABMiller Plc (SAB), Anheuser- Busch InBev NV (ABI) and Carlsberg A/S (CARLB) see that as an opportunity. (more…)
* Japan brewer tipped to buy east European beermaker StarBev
* Sale of CVC’s StarBev could come within two weeks
* StarBev sale could raise about $3 bln for CVC Capital (more…)
In the month leading up to the Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (BUD) third quarter earnings announcement slated for Thursday, March 8, 2012, expectations have risen for the upcoming results. (more…)
Apparently the new malt beverage is to be called Lima-A-Rita. AB-InBev received labeling permission for the 6-percent-alcohol brew in January. (more…)
EABL’s half-year results for the period up to December 31 2011 show that the Uganda section had the highest growth in beer consumption capacity with top-line revenue growth of 43 per cent. (more…)
SABMiller plc., Anadolu Group (Anadolu End?stri Holding A.?., Yaz?c?lar Holding A.?. and ?zilhan S?nai Yat?r?m A.?.), and Anadolu Efes (Anadolu Efes Birac?l?k ve Malt Sanayii A.?.) today announce completion of the transfer of SABMiller’s Russian and Ukrainian beer businesses in the context of their strategic alliance for Turkey, Russia, the CIS, Central Asia and the Middle East, which was originally announced on 19 October 2011. (more…)
Heineken N.V. today announced that it has been assigned solid investment grade credit ratings by the world’s two leading credit agencies, Moody’s Investor Service and Standard & Poor’s. Both long-term credit ratings, Baa1 and BBB+, respectively, have ‘stable’ outlooks (more…)
Growth in the world beer market picked up to reach 2.7 percent in 2011 as growth continued to strengthen driven by emerging markets, and is predicted to grow at 2.5 percent this year, industry research group Plato Logic said on Wednesday. (more…)
Local brewers expand imports of Japanese beers to raise profitability (more…)
It’s hard work growing an economy, and at the end of the day, the only way to unwind after all that hard work is to throw back an icy cold, watered-down macrobrew. (more…)
