Japan & South Korea: Japanese brewers striving to regain foothold in Korea through price cuts

After going through a complete collapse amid the ‘No Japan’ boycott campaign in South Korea, Japanese breweries are striving to regain a foothold through price cuts, The Korea Bizwire reported ...
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Australia: Bumper barley harvest to save United Malt some of past year’s big price and freight cost challenges

The long awaited big cropping season which evaded Mark Palmquist for much of the time he ran eastern Australia's GrainCorp now promises to deliver barley volumes and quantity in spades ...
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Australia & China: Australia’s barley industry sees 66% of export value coming from China

The fallout from a Chinese ban on exports varies markedly across the various classes of grain commodity. A Rural Bank report, investigating China's share of Australian agriculture exports in light of ...
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EU: Barley production forecast to drop to 54.293 mln tonnes in 2020/21

The EU Commission’s S&D balance report of the end of October forecasts the EU-27 barley production in 2020/21 at 54.293 mln tonnes vs. 55.047 mln in 2019/20. Import is seen down ...
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Russia & Ukraine: Barley exports to-date ahead of last year’s

The Russian wheat crop is outstanding, exports as of the beginning of November were 15.5 mln tonnes vs. 13.9 mln last year. Farmers sales are drying up, and Moscow has ...
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World: Early start of China’s feed barley purchases leads to surge in French barley prices

The loss of supply from Australia has sparked an unusually early start to China's buying of new crop feed barley, with key European exporters set to gain market share, leading ...
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Thailand & Vietnam: ThaiBev posts 2% dip in full-year earnings

Thai Beverage posted a 2% dip in full-year earnings to 22.75 billion baht ($1.00 billion) for FY2020 ended September, from 23.27 billion baht a year ago, The Edge Singapore reported ...
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Spain: Damm to distribute Grimbergen beer in Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar

Damm is set to distribute Grimbergen beer in Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar within an extension to the agreement signed with the Carlsberg Group in July, when it began to distribute ...
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Malaysia: Heineken Malaysia sees Q3 net profit drop 40.7%

Heineken Malaysia Bhd’s net profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30 (Q3’20) dropped 40.7% to RM61.25 million from RM103.3 million a year ago mainly due to a beer volume ...
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Italy: March-June beer production fell by more than a fifth

The Italian brewing industry saw beer production fall by more than a fifth (22%) in the period most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, from March to June 2020, with only ...
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