Myanmar Beer commands about two thirds of the country’s beer market by volume. And the firm has not sat complacently on its market dominance — like other state-backed firms. MBL has moved swiftly to overhaul both its image and products. (more…)
British alcoholic beverage company Diageo has introduced a nonalcoholic version of its famous Guinness beer in Indonesia called Guinness Zero. The new beverage was launched exclusively for the Muslim-majority country after the government banned the sale of beer in convenience stores in April. (more…)
Competition is heating up between China’s top two breweries. And with the country coming off its first-ever year of declining beer sales, the battle to win more customers has an air of urgency to it. (more…)
Dutch beer giant Heineken is set to become the first world-renowned manufacturer to set up a production base in East Timor, a small Southeast Asian nation formally known as Timor-Leste. (more…)
The deal to the cost of 1.1 billion dollars allowed receiving 25% of the shares of Masan Consumer Holdings and 33.3% of the share of Masan Brewery. (more…)
A quarter of the wholesalers may stop beer distribution. Based on its own data and information of trade unions “Opora Rossii” estimated that it happened because of the need to join the Unified State Automated Information System (USAIS). (more…)
Shares of China Resources Beer (Holdings), or CR Beer, rose for a fifth straight session here Tuesday amid local media reports that the brewer may raise its stake in a joint venture. (more…)
British businessman Peter Bloxham thought Christmas had come early when Chinese president Xi Jinping sat down in David Cameron’s local pub to sup a pint of Greene King real ale. Days later the phone was ringing off the hook with punters wanting to know where they could buy the beer that ‘Dada Xi’ – as the Chinese leader is affectionately known – was seemingly so fond of. (more…)
The Saigon Beer, Alcohol and Beverage Corporation (Sabeco) has said it will not sell major stake to overseas investors, even as foreign companies, including Thai tycoons, are vying for ownership in the state-owned brewer. (more…)
The opening ceremony of the new brewery of CR Snow within the project of extending business in remote regions was held on 23 December. The capacity of the new enterprise is 3 million hectoliters of beer per year. (more…)
