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UB group to invest Rs12 bn for more beer capacity

Posted by admin | News | Posted on August 31st, 2007

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- UB group to invest Rs12 bn for more beer capacity
- Boston Beer Co. buys property
- Readers’ Comments Warne the face of beer
- Coors to get even craftier
- BRIEF: Video profile: ‘Ice cold beer!’ is his calling at…
- “Global Market Review of Premium Beer – Forecasts to 2013″…

UB group to invest Rs12 bn for more beer capacity
Livemint – Aug 31, 2007
President Kalyan Ganguly said that United Breweries which has more than half the fast-expanding Indian market expects beer consumption to grow in excess of 20% per annum. ?We are expanding capacity in anticipation of buoyant growth? he said at the sidelines of a conference. ?Some of these will be greenfields while the rest will be to expand capacity in existing breweries? he informed. United Breweries which has a joint venture with Scottish & Newcastle Plc has a capacity now to roll out 120 million cases of beer annually.

Boston Beer Co. buys property
Bizjournals.com – Aug 31, 2007
(NYSE: SAM) purchased 52. 6 acres from the Campanelli Cos. 95 million as a possible backup site for a new brewery. Michelle Sullivan Boston Beer's spokeswoman said the company currently does not have plan for the Freetown Mass.

Readers’ Comments Warne the face of beer
NEWS.com.au – Aug 31, 2007
article-tools –>August 31 2007 10:00pmHIS predecessor is famously renowned for sinking 52 cans of beer on a flight between here and London but if anyone can step up to the crease to replace David “Boonie” Boon as the face of VB it’s Shane Warne. Following the summer that was literally a Boonanza for the beer brand the man whose very name is synonymous with a coldie is passing the baton to spin king Warnie. While better known for his penchant for a smoke than a beer Warnie has signed on to be the face – or is that beer belly? – of VB for its summer cricket campaign.

Coors to get even craftier
Rocky Mountain News – Aug 31, 2007
“The high end is where it’s at. So it seems logical they would put alot more focus on the high end” Paul Gatza director of the BrewersAssociation a Boulder-based industry trade group said of Coors. Benj Steinman publisher of the trade publication Beer Marketer’sInsights said: “When you’re a big company how do you nurture andcultivate a small brand? This is one possible way to do it. Anheuser-Busch Cos. and SAB Miller PLC’s Miller Brewing Co. alsohave taken steps to capitalize on the craft beer craze including therollout of new beers and investments in craft-beer makers. Coors a unit of Denver-based Molson Coors Brewing Co… Coors a unit of Denver-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. disclosedits plans for AC Golden Brewing in a recent e-mail to its employees anddistributors. AC Golden Brewing’s birth comes as overall beer sales are inching upwhile craft beer sales are surging. During the first half of 2007 craft beer sales increased 11 percentwhile sales of all beer rose just 1 percent according to the BrewersAssociation. “The craft beer segment of the beer industry has delivered stronggrowth over the past several years” said David Peacock vice presidentof business operations at Anheuser-Busch. Similarly sales of Coors’ more pricey Blue Moon have beenskyrocketing compared with sales of Coors Light. At Applejack Wine& Spirits in Wheat Ridge a case of Blue Moon costs $25.

BRIEF: Video profile: ‘Ice cold beer!’ is his calling at…
Free with registration – Virginian-Pilot – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 31, 2007
(31-AUG-07) Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk VA). 31–You can hear beer vendor Willie Jackson before you see him at Norfolk’s Harbor Park. His voice has made quite an impact on the crowds watching Tides baseball g.

“Global Market Review of Premium Beer – Forecasts to 2013″…
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 31, 2007
“Global Market Review of Premium Beer – Forecasts to 2013″ by just-drinks August 2007. (31-AUG-07) M2 Presswire.