USA: Coors Light(R) Plastic bottle cooler box named best new packaging innovation for 2005

Convenience Store News has named the Coors Light Plastic Bottle Cooler Box as the "Best New Packaging Innovation of 2005." Products were judged by a panel of trade magazine ...
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Denmark: Carlsberg shuts down half of its breweries in Europe

Danish brewing force, Carlsberg A/S, will shut down almost a half of its breweries in Europe. This would be a part of a plan to streamline production on the continent, ...
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World: By 2011 world malting barley trade is to grow by 14%

Australia’s Grains Research and Development Corporation forecasts an annual increase in the world beer demand of 2%. Rob McCaig from Canadian Malting Barley and Technical Centre foresees a world malting ...
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Belarus: Syabar brewery will launch beer production in October

Syabar Brewery (Bobruisk, Mogilev Region, Belarus) has recently announced it will launch beer production this October, Interfax cited company's PR Manager Vadim Sekhovich on September 27. The source specified, the ...
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Estonia: Country’s largest brewery, Saku Õlletehas, accumulated 44.8% market share in H1 2005

Estonia’s largest brewery Saku Õlletehas earned a net profit of 19.3 mln kroons in the first half of this year, a growth by 3.2 mln kroons from the same time ...
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USA: Hops shipping to Coors and Anheuser-Busch factories was started

Willamette Valley farms have begun shipping hops throughout the country to the nation's largest beer producers, The Associated Press has recently posted. According to the Oregon Hop Growers Association, Oregon ...
Published 27/09/2005 More

UK & Australia: Scottish & Newcastle and Foster’s dispute over European distribution agreement

Scottish & Newcastle brewery is on the edge of a fight with Australian brewing giant Foster's over the terms of its multi-million pound European distribution agreement for the lager, Business ...
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Russia: Baltika’s minority shareholders revolted about second postponement of court case

The minority shareholders of Scottish & Newcastle's half-owned Russian brewery, Baltika, hit out on September 23 at the second postponement of a claim brought in a St Petersburg court about ...
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Japan: Premium beers on rise in Japan

The beer shipments by five major brewers for August, posted the first rise in eight months, increasing 2.1 % from a year earlier. The premium beer sales were particularly strong, ...
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Brazil: InBev aims to exceed Anheuser-Busch's 29% profit margin by 2008

The chief executive of InBev, the world's biggest brewer, John F. Brock, has been brushing up on his Brazilian, New York Times communicated on September 26. "Loosely translated, jinga means effortless ...
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