UK: Pauls Malt enjoys rise in profits last year

One of the UK’s biggest maltsters – Pauls Malt – enjoyed a rise in profits last year despite Covid-19 pressures on its brewing and distilling customer base, The Press and ...
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UK & EU: UK’s barley and wheat trade with EU countries stalls in early 2021

The UK's barley and wheat trade with EU countries stalled significantly in early 2021, as both buyers and sellers adjusted to the new post-Brexit trading environment, Argus Media reported on ...
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Russia: Beer production up 5.8% in January-February this year

Russia’s beer production increased by 5.8% to 10.3 mln hl in January-February this year, Rosstat data showed on March 16. In February alone, the nation’s brewers produced 5.5% more beer than ...
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Australia: Barley farmers meaningfully break into Saudi market for the first time in five years

Australian barley farmers have moved on, big time. Facing massive Chinese tariffs and an urgent need to ship a bumper harvest, they’re piling into one of the world’s mega markets ...
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Ukraine: Beer and malt production decline in January-February this year

Ukraine’s beer output totalled 1.98 mln hl in January-February this year, down 3.6% versus the first two months of 2020, trade association Ukrpivo reported on March 15. Zero-alcohol beer and beer ...
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Australia & China: Australian government takes next step in China WTO barley action

The Australian government has formally taken the next step in taking its Chinese counterpart to the World Trade Organization over China's decision to implement tariffs on Australian barley due to ...
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Australia: Asahi to buy barley directly from farmers

In a move that will go some way to help combat China’s tariffs on Australian barley exports the Japanese-owned Asahi Beverages will now source malt direct from Australian growers for ...
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Japan: Pandemic propelling an unexpected boom in alcohol-free beer

His social life severely curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic, Tadasu Masuda found himself embracing the opportunity to take what in Japan is known as “liver rest days” and try out ...
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UK: 2,000 pubs permanently closed and some £8.2 billion in beer sales lost last year

A year on from the first national lockdown in the UK, the British Beer & Pub Association has revealed that 2,000 pubs have permanently closed and some £8.2 billion in ...
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UK: Number of breweries increases by 216 last year

The Covid-19 pandemic’s devastating impact on pub, bar and restaurant beer sales hasn’t put entrepreneurs off launching new brewing businesses, with the total number of UK breweries increasing by 216 ...
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