Heineken to control costs

Heineken launches business unit to control costs

Heineken has launched a special business unit to help the brewer more tightly control costs across its global operations.
Heineken's managing director in France, Frans Eusman, will move to head up the brewer's new Global Business Services division, the Netherlands-based brewer said late yesterday (31 August). Eusman will take a seat on Heineken's executive board and his job will be to ensure best practices are followed across the company and its subsidiaries, from raw materials procurement to back-office administration.

The move comes as Heineken seeks to reduce costs as part of its three-year Total Cost Management programme, as well » Read More
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Bud Light Lime Wins Award

This is how popular Bud Light Lime in Bottles is in Canada. It is made in the Stag Brewery in England. There is a brewery agreement that says the Budlight lime people can't brew this beer in clear bottles in Canada. It has to be imported. Maybe a little life in the brewery after all.

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Bud Light Lime Earns Elsie for Best New Product Launch

Toronto - Bud Light Lime’s staggeringly successful debut continues to take top honours with its win for Best New Product Launch in 2009 at the LCBO’s 16th Annual Elsie Awards.

“In Canada, Bud Light Lime was the decade’s most successful beer launch thanks to unprecedented demand that saw out-of-stock situations driving consumers store » Read More
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Heineken is cautious about future beer consumption.

Heineken, the leading UK brewer, has generated a net profit in the first half year thanks to good margins in Europe and thanks to its savings generated across it´s global businesses -mainly in Europe. These savings allows the company to finance growth in emerging markets. But Heineken is cautious about predicting future beer consumption.
For more reding : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3742ead6-b010-11df-939d-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=280781be-a525-11dd-b4f5-000077b07658,print=yes.html » Read More
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SABMiller a potential buyer of Foster´s beer Business in Australia

SAB Miller is the favorite candidate to buy Forster´s beer business in Australia. The Australian beer market is highly profitable despite little overall growth.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67M36620100823 » Read More
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leave it to the profesinals who know the beer job ! » Read More
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Budweiser, the King of Beers?

Anheuser-Busch knows it has a Budweiser problem. The beer's share of the U.S. market peaked in 1988 at 26 percent, sinking to 9.3 percent last year. Even more troubling for A-B is that Budweiser seems at risk of being forgotten by an entire generation. Four out of 10 people in their mid-20s have never even tried Budweiser -- a rate 2.5 times higher than when it reigned supreme, according to the company.

But A-B is betting big it can persuade young beer drinkers to once again order a Budweiser, and thus get inside the door of places like the Bleeding Deacon.

"We've drawn a line in the sand," A-B President Dave Peacock said earlier this week during a talk at the KMOX/Business Owners Spe » Read More
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Molson (SAB Miller) Labatt (AB-InBev)

Hello all. Here is something I thought would never happen but it did. As part of the deal to buy A-B. Inbev had to sell its Labatt USA production. The anti-trust government agency in the USA said that there was a monopoly in some of the Northern states because Bud, Bud Light and Labatt Blue and Labatt Blue Light were the top selling brands making this a monopoly. North American Breweries a newly formed company coming from KPS investments in New York City bought the Labatt USA business. They had three years to find a suitable manufacturer that was not located in the USA. This is an import and would have to be made out side of the USA to still be an import. It was announced that Molson’s Ca » Read More
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