CHINA: Snow boosts China Resources Enterprise FY results
SABMiller JV sees beer sales rise by 14% to HK21.5bn (US$2.7bn)
Group net sales up by 35%
Net profits up by 25%
Eyes more acquisitions (more…)
Sarmat renamed Miller Brands Ukraine
CJSC Sarmat, one of the four largest beer producers in Ukraine, has been reorganized as a private joint-stock company and renamed Miller Brands Ukraine, according to a company press release. (more…)
King Beverage to bring Canada’s Russell Beer to US
Russell Breweries, a producer of premium craft beer in Western Canada, has entered into partnership with King Beverage, a beer distributor in the Pacific North West US, for distributing its beer in the Spokane area in the US. (more…)
Tap It Brewing Co signs distribution agreement with Pacific Beverage Co
Tap It Brewing Co, a microbrewery located in San Luis Obispo County, California, has signed a distribution agreement with Pacific Beverages Co, a subsidiary of Jordano’s, a beer wholesale operation servicing California’s Central Coast region. (more…)
Stella Artois Introduces New ‘Chalice’ Can
Stella Artois, the world’s best-selling Belgian beer, will be available for the first time in a unique 440ml (14.9-ounce) aluminum can, beginning April 1. (more…)
AUSTRALIA: AWB 2010/11 barley pools softer in flat market
Estimated pool returns (EPRs) for AWB’s 2010/11 season barley pools have declined between zero and seven dollars a tonne for most grades, with the larger falls in eastern Australia where there is more feed grain available and costs to execute cargoes have risen, the company reported on Monday. (more…)
ROMANIA: Beer market drops 16% in last two years
The unstable economic environment in 2010 resulted in a decrease of the beer market by 3.5% over 2009 reaching a total volume of 17 million hectoliters. (more…)
BELGIUM: Duvel Moortgat’s consolidated turnover grew 21,2% in 2010
In 2010 Duvel Moortgat, Belgian specialty brewer, managed to record “a fine growth”, the company announced on Tuesday. Owing to the relentless attention to quality as well as the efforts and drive made by its staff, Duvel Moortgat managed to register a rise in turnover for nearly all its beers in the priority markets. (more…)
Graincrop buys Kirin malthouse
GRAINCORP has agreed to buy all shares in malt house operator Kirin Australia from Japan’s Kirin Brewery Company Ltd for $10.55 million. (more…)
Australia. Competition a casualty in beer wars: Xenophon
Australia’s two major grocers are ”drunk on market power” according to Senator Nick Xenophon, responding to revelations that brewer Foster’s halted shipments when it learned of big supermarkets’ plans to sell slabs of beer below cost. (more…)