The UK tax duty reduction on reduced alcoholic beer will not have a strong impact on the beer industry, at least not in the short-term, according to Euromonitor. (more…)
Major retailers are stepping up efforts to compete with leading beer manufacturers by developing and marketing low-priced house-brand beer. (more…)
Soft drink supplier Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) says it will re-enter the beer market despite having to give up its beer operations if SABMiller succeeds in taking over Foster’s Group. (more…)
A judge has ordered the temporary suspension of a $2.53 billion deal that would give Japan’s Kirin Holdings Co. a controlling stake in Brazilian beer producer Schincariol. (more…)
Major breweries in Britain have plans to develop low-alcohol beers, following a new government measure to cut down duty on low-alcohol beers, which is set to be implemented this October. (more…)
Dollar growth up 15% in first six months of 2011; U.S. sees rapid growth in breweries in planning (more…)
Japan’s Kirin Holdings Company on Friday reported the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck on March 11, continued to place downward pressure on the Japanese economy during the first six months of this year, especially in production. Despite the harsh conditions continuing though, constraints on the supply side have been gradually easing and consumer spending is bottoming out, the company said. (more…)
Ceres Global Ag Corp’s subsidiary, Riverland Ag Corp, has acquired the Manitowoc grain storage and malting facility from Anheuser?Busch InBev of Leuven, Belgium, effective July 29, 2011. (more…)
Molson Coors has unveiled details of a 7.3m relaunch of its flagship Carling brand with new positioning, packaging and a sub-brand as it looks to shore up its share of a declining market. (more…)
A chain of brand restaurants Pilsner Urquell Original Restaurant (PUOR) is growing and is now reaching other continents. The first Pilsner Urquell Original Restaurant in Asia opened its doors to guests in Hanoi, in the capital city of Vietnam. Pilsner Urquell has already a lot of fans in Vietnam, and only in 2010 Plze?sk? Prazdroj exported here over 1,500 hectolitres of the lager from Plze?, that is a third more than the previous year. For many years it exported only
cans, however this year Vietnam will receive beer barrels. (more…)
