News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
At a time when Europe's leading brewers are growing bigger and more international on almost a weekly basis, smaller companies are finding it increasingly hard to expand their own businesses. We spoke to Michael Hoffmann of the Turkish brewer Efes...
With per capita consumption of wine of less than one litre a year in China, but with a market set to grow by 10-15 per cent in the next three years, there is major potential for Spanish wines in China, especially in the bottled wine segment.
The effects of a downturn in German imports and the events of 11 September took their toll on Bordeaux wine exports in 2001/02, according to the latest CIVB data.
Although the future of the EC Merger Regulations Committee might have been thrown into doubt, the recent overruling that allows Tetra Laval to go ahead with its plans to acquire Sidel paves the way for an increased presence in the world market for PET...
Nine month results at Belgian brewer Interbrew were helped by a 16.8 per cent rise in volume sales, but like-for-like results were impacted by the sale of the Carling business in February.