Russia. “Soon we’ll have nothing to trade”

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Starting from 1 January, the wholesalers and the retailers from 1 July are obliged to connect to the electronic system USAIS, created to control the turnover of alcohol in Russia. According to RBC, the new rules have already caused interruption in alcohol supplies. (more…)

China. AB InBev developing non-beer beverage categories

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Over the years, Anheuser-Busch InBev has achieved a lot in the Chinese beer market. The company believes that they should go beyond the beer the time has come to ¬explore new directions of the alcohol industry. (more…)

Vietnam. The government increases the excise tax on beer

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Since January 2016, the prices of beer in the dealer networks and retail stores in Vietnam have increased sharply. The reason for this jump was the introduction on 1January 2016 of a new special consumption tax (SCT). (more…)

Vietnam. Habeco has summed up the results of 2015 and shared their plans for 2016

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On 8 January 2016, in Hanoi Habeco Corporation held a conference where has summarized the results of their work in 2015 and shared the plans for 2016.

Nguyen Hong Linh, CEO of Habeco said that in 2015 the company managed to largely surpass the annual plan. The production value increased by 10.4% compared to 2014 to 9,964 billion dong and total sales increased by 9.6% to 11.033 billion dong. This, in turn, 0.9% more than expected. (more…)