CR Snow, AB-InBev Lead Beer Price Hikes in China Market

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Brewers in China including China Resources Snow Breweries Co. Ltd. (CR Snow) and Belgium’s Anheuser-Busch InBev NV (AB-InBev) have started to increase product prices, as rising production costs bite into profit margins. (more…)

Premium Chinese beer a bitter brew for foreign brands

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Chinese brewers are making an aggressive push into premium beer, lured by high margins and huge growth potential, posing a tough challenge to the foreign companies that dominate the category in the world’s largest beer market. (more…)

Chinese Beer Drinkers Reject Heineken’s “Bitter Taste”

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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…)

Premium Chinese beer a bitter brew for foreign brands

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Chinese brewers are making an aggressive push into premium beer, lured by high margins and huge growth potential, posing a tough challenge to the foreign companies that dominate the category in the world’s largest beer market. (more…)

SABMiller invests further into Chinese beer market

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Global brewer SABMiller (SAB.L) is expanding further in the world’s biggest beer market with its Chinese joint venture agreeing to pay around $42 million on Thursday for an investment in a brewer in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. (more…)