Baltika is the only Russian brewery to participate in the International beer festival in Berlin, held on August 1 – 3, 2003. 75 countries from all over the world presented 1650 different varieties of beer on an alley of about 2 km. The interest in Russian beer is quite high in Germany, said Baltika. Last year the company exported more than 2.5 million bottles of beer. 2 million bottles were already sold during the first seven months of 2003. That was also facilitated by opening in 2002 of a Baltika subsidiary “Baltika Deutschland GmbH” in Hamburg.

In 2002 Baltika beer was presented on the markets of 28 countries. Baltika held 70% share of all Russian beer export in 2002. In 2003 export of Baltika beer is still growing, said the company. In the first six month of the year Baltika exported about 500 thousand hl of beer, that is 9% more versus the same period last year.

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