Thailand & Singapore: ThaiBev reports 38.5%increase in full-year profit

A better performance from spirits and food and contributions from stakes in Fraser & Neave (F&N) and Frasers Centrepoint Limited (FCL) boosted full year numbers at Thai Beverage, The Straits ...
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Vietnam: Beer industry forum warns against further tax hikes

Taxes on alcohol and soft drinks should not be hiked again in the next few years since successive hikes in special consumption tax have had a strong impact on the ...
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Nigeria: AB InBev to spend $250 mln to build new brewery in Nigeria

AB InBev has announced it will spend $250 mln to build a new brewery in south-west Nigeria as it launches Budweiser into the country, FoodBev.com reported on November 23. The brewer ...
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UK: Barley consumption by feed sector up 42% in Q1 2017/18

With HMR&C recently releasing trade data for September, we can now take a look at how UK barley consumption and trade has performed in the first quarter of the 2017/18 ...
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Angola: New brewery to produce Portuguese beer Sagres in Angola

Sociedade de Distribuição de Bebidas de Angola (Sodiba), which has as its shareholders the businesswoman Isabel dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, has invested US$85 million in the construction ...
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Romania: United Romanian Breweries Bereprod posts record production figure for January-October

United Romanian Breweries Bereprod (URBB) has posted a record production figure exceeding 2 million hectolitres for the period January-October 2017, representing a 10 percent increase year-on-year, the Business Review reported ...
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Myanmar: Up to 30% of all beer sold in Myanmar is illegal - report

Global research firm Euromonitor International released on November 20 its independent study on the prevalence of the illicit trade of beer in Myanmar. In a country which has an import ...
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Australia: GrainCorp's malting barley business performs strongly due to US demand for craft beer

GrainCorp's profits have surged off the back of last year's record-breaking grain crop and strong United States demand for craft beer, ABC Online reported on November 21. The Australian Stock Exchange-listed ...
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Vietnam: Premium beer consumption rockets to 10 mln hl last year - report

A storm is brewing for discount brands selling lower-quality products as Vietnamese beer drinkers are increasingly picking up premium and super premium products from shelves, with premium beer consumption rocketing ...
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UK: Distribution in craft beer ‘broken’ and ‘needs fixing’

The warehouse model employed by most beer distributors in the UK is “broken” and should be “done a completely different way”, according to one of the UK’s leading online retailers ...
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