Australia: Western Australia looking at its biggest ever barley planting this year

Western Australia is still looking at its biggest ever barley planting this year, according to the Grain Industry Association of WA's (GIWA) latest crop report. According to the report, the crop ...
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Hong Kong: AB InBev’s Asia Pacific unit to start gauging investor demand for Hong Kong IPO

Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Ltd., the Asia Pacific unit of the world’s biggest brewer, starts gauging investor demand on June 28 for a proposed Hong Kong initial public offering, Bloomberg ...
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Myanmar: Myanmar to allow import of foreign alcohol

Myanmar’s Ministry of Commerce has drafted regulations that would allow the import of foreign alcohol, a senior official says, and in the process overturn a decades-old ban that has encouraged ...
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Australia & China: Australia barley exports to China could fill 2900 Olympic sized swimming pools

The amount of Australian barley exported to China every year could fill 4.5 Melbourne Cricket Grounds or 2900 Olympic sized swimming pools, the Grain Central reported on June 17. It’s Australia’s ...
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Malawi: Higher taxes on alcohol may force Castel Malawi to shut down operations

Castel Malawi Limited has disclosed that it could close its operations in the country due to high taxes charged by Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) on alcoholic beverages, the Malawi24 reported ...
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EU: Barley yield forecast trimmed to 4.92 t/ha this month

Beneficial rainfall in much of the European Union has led the bloc’s crop monitoring service to raise monthly yield forecasts for this year’s wheat and maize harvests, but parched conditions ...
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USA: Beer consumption is shrinking but craft beer still rules

In 1873 there were 4,131 breweries in the U.S. Over the next century the number fell and fell, hitting a low—not counting Prohibition, when it went to zero—of only 89 ...
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Ukraine: Beer production up, malt down in January-May this year

Ukraine’s beer production in January-May this year totalled 7.05 mln hl, up 0.4% from the output seen over the respective period last year, Ukrpivo reported on June 10. The nation’s beer ...
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Thailand: ThaiBev shares seen as one of top picks among Singapore-listed consumer stocks

CGS-CIMB Research says Thai Beverage is one of its top picks among Singapore-listed consumer stocks, given the kingdom’s improving domestic beer consumption, The Edge Singapore reported on June14. CGS-CIMB also favours ...
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Belgium: Belgium becomes world’s leading exporter of beer in 2018

For Belgian brewers, 2018 was a year with two faces. On the one hand, domestic consumption was virtually unchanged for the first time in years, while on the other, exports ...
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