In a bar in the heart of St Petersburg, widescreen TVs show a match between local football team Zenit and Bayern Munich, two giants of European football – but this is not the only thing these two cities have in common. (more…)
How does a company adapt when it faces a reduction of its consumption base and radical changes in the way people buy its product? This is the conundrum facing Didier Debrosse, chief of Western Europe for Dutch brewer Heineken NV. (more…)
A fight brewing over beer in Wisconsin pits the growing market of craft brewers against a large, well-known brewer. (more…)
The launch of Heineken, the legendary Dutch beer in India from the stables of the United Breweries Ltd (UBL) is understood to have been delayed once again. (more…)
Grupo Modelo SAB de CV (GMODELOC), the Mexican brewer of Corona beer, will seek board support for a possible joint bid with Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TAP) for Foster’s Group Ltd. (FGL) at a June 13 meeting in Mexico City, according to people with knowledge of the situation. (more…)
Tucked into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) much-discussed budget was a little-noticed provision to overhaul the state’s regulation of the beer industry. In a state long associated with beer, the provision will make it much more difficult for the Wisconsin’s burgeoning craft breweries to operate and expand their business by barring them from selling directly to restaurants and liquor stores, and preventing them from selling their own product onsite. (more…)
Total shipments of beer and beer-like drinks in Japan dived 8.6 percent in May from a year earlier to 32.58 million cases, a record low for the reporting month, data by five major brewers showed Friday. (more…)
TWST.com and Charlie Duerr of Nation’s Restaurant News summed up the work of KeyBanc Capital Investment analyst Brad Ludington’s view of the restaurant industry. (more…)
Publicans will be left reeling from the news that the amount of beer sold in Irish pubs dropped dramatically yet again last year. (more…)
By July 1, beer lovers will have a Connecticut Beer Trail in place that leads them to breweries across the state. (more…)
