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SAN MIGUEL SELLS FF AUSTRALIAN DAIRY AND BEER BUSINESSES.

Posted by admin | News | Posted on November 8th, 2007

The News Review:

- SAN MIGUEL SELLS FF AUSTRALIAN DAIRY AND BEER BUSINESSES.
- Feel like a beer? Let’s stop off at Microsoft
- A pint of beer is better than water after a workout
- EU court annuls EU refusal to allow Bavarian Lager access to meeting…
- Waffles Beer and… Polopoly

SAN MIGUEL SELLS FF AUSTRALIAN DAIRY AND BEER BUSINESSES.
Free with registration – AsiaPulse News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 8, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 Asia Pulse Pty Ltd SYDNEY Nov 8 Asia Pulse – The Philippines-based San Miguel Corp (PSE:SMC) is exiting Australia as it sells off its dairy products and beer operations. Asia’s largest listed food beverages and packaging group is disposing of Melbourne-based National Foods and Tasmanian brewer J Boag & Son. National Foods is being sold to Japanese beer maker Kirin Brewery Company (TSE:2503) for A$2. 6 billion) including debt after San Miguel acquired it in 2004 for A$1.

Feel like a beer? Let’s stop off at Microsoft
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Nov 8, 2007
Feel like a beer? Let’s stop off at Microsoft. plans to develop an upscale campus for its Entertainment and Devices Division including its Xbox business on a large swath of land on the western half of its Redmond headquarters. It might even have its own bar.

A pint of beer is better than water after a workout
china.org.cn – Nov 8, 2007
The study led by Professor Manuel Garzon of Granada’s medical faculty made the discovery after conducting tests on 25 students over several months. In the study the participants were asked to run on a treadmill under stifling temperatures of 40C until they were close to exhaustion. Researchers measured their hydration levels concentration ability and motor skills after the students were on the point of giving up their physical exercise. Half of the participants were then given two half pints of Spanish lager to drink while the left were given water.

EU court annuls EU refusal to allow Bavarian Lager access to meeting…
Forbes – Nov 8, 2007
This provision obliged brewers who own more than 2000 pubs to allow tenants the opportunity to purchase beer from another brewery provided that the beer is cask-conditioned with an alcoholic strength greater than 1. Most beers produced outside the UK do not meet this criteria as they are filtered prior to being put into barrels. The company took the the view that British legislation did not sufficiently limit those exclusivity contracts and thus constituted a measure having equivalent effect to a quantitative restriction on imports. The commission started an investigation and in 1995 decided to institute infringement proceedings against the UK government. A meeting took place between commission officials UK civil servants and representatives of the Confederation des Brasseurs du Marche Commun (CBMC) in ctober 1996. Bavarian Lager’s request to attend this meeting was refused.

Waffles Beer and… Polopoly
CMSWire – Nov 8, 2007
Polypoly Content Manager will serve as the central platform for the ongoing development of Cornelio’s publications in the digital arena. Cornelio operates a group of local and national newspapers in the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking parts of Belgium and claims to be the largest newspaper publisher in the country.