Revolutionary UK brewers BrewDog, currently turn over ?6.5 million per year and are set to expand even further after the investment of 5,000 shareholders. The benefactors have joined through the second instalment of BrewDog’s unique and now legendary business model – Equity for Punks. (more…)
Anheuser-Busch plans to spend more than $7 million to expand its canning capacity at its plant in Syracuse, N.Y. (more…)
The fiscal year F12 (ending in March 12) is half complete. The driver of sales and earnings growth continues to be the strong developing market performance (more…)
SABMiller PLC will have to pay an extra A$582 million as part of its takeover of Foster’s Group Ltd. , after the Australian Taxation Office knocked back the planned structure of the deal. (more…)
California-based craft brewer Green Flash Brewing Company has revealed its plans to expand within its 45,000ft? Mira Mesa facility in San Diego, where it began operations six months ago. (more…)
They wear jeans to work now. It no longer feels odd. They walk by flower beds that might not be tended as obsessively as in years past. Certainly fewer of them report to work each day on Pestalozzi Street, at the brewery and adjacent brick-and-glass rectangular office building. This was once the global headquarters of Anheuser-Busch. Today it’s the North American headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev. (more…)
Europe’s biggest brewers may be forced to cut jobs and close breweries to cope with the escalating euro zone crisis and Danish brewer Carlsberg is already preparing for the worst. (more…)
* Beer division sales up 19.3 pct in Q3
* Retail sales rise 27 pct, same-store sales up 11.6 pct
* Says consumer sentiment hit by global economic woes (more…)
In what should prove a cautionary tale for those hoping to ride the rise of China, Dutch beer giant Heineken International is in full retreat from its operations in the country, the world’s biggest beer market (the U.S., despite its Homer Simpson-esque reputation, is a distant second). (more…)
Following strong growth in its African division, SABMiller plc [SAB: LSE/SAB:JNB] announces a US$260m investment programme to fund capacity expansion in its subsidiaries in Uganda, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania. (more…)
