Coca-Cola HBC S.A. announced that it has completed, together with Heineken N.V. (Heineken), the acquisition of 41.2% of minority shares in their joint venture company, Pivara Skopje, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). (more…)
Heineken N.V. today announced that Heineken International B.V. (‘HIBV’) has launched a mandatory unconditional cash offer (the ‘Offer’) for all the 12,127,715 issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the capital of Asia Pacific Breweries Limited (‘APB’), representing approximately 4.7% of APB’s issued share capital, which are not already owned or controlled by HIBV as at the date of the Offer. (more…)
Craft brewers have been eating Anheuser-Busch InBev?’s (NYSE: BUD) lunch in recent years. While overall beer consumption in the U.S. shrank each year from 2008 to 2011, craft beer sales grew by 15 percent last year. (more…)
Beer importer Heineken USA has appointed Zambezi and Edelman as the advertising agencies of record for Strongbow cider and Heineken Light as well as Amstel Light brands respectively. (more…)
C&C Group says it expects the US cider market to explode, but aims to build a strong multi-beverage business group rather than just a ‘pure play’ cider business. (more…)
To get Heineken NV (HEIA) growing in the U.S. again, Dolf van den Brink first gained control of some of the imported beers Americans were drinking instead of Heineken. (more…)
C&C Group is aiming to triple the size of its international business over the next four years, with the division expected to account for a fifth of group earnings. (more…)
Major breweries are battling for market share as the taste for “quality” beer takes hold in supermarkets and pubs. Geoff Cumming follows the consumer-led revolution. (more…)
Eike Batista is no longer Brazil’s richest person after shares of his natural-resource startups plunged today. The title now belongs to Anheuser-Busch InBev NV (ABI) investor Jorge Paulo Lemann. (more…)
United Breweries’ CFO is stepping down at the end of the year to transfer to the same role with Heineken France. (more…)
