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Beer? Germans Say Nein Danke

Posted by admin | News | Posted on January 29th, 2008

The News Review:

- Beer? Germans Say Nein Danke
- SABMiller’s Czech unit Plzensky Prazdroj beer sales up 2 pct in…
- Costco loses state case on lowering beer wine prices
- Sentamu stands the Pope a beer

Beer? Germans Say Nein Danke
Forbes – Jan 29, 2008
The country’s famed reverence for beer is ebbing as new figures show that sales of the amber nectar fell 2. 7% in 2007 the steepest decline since 2000 according to Germany’s Federal Statistics ffice. Things will get worse as a new national smoking ban takes hold across the country. Pub sales should drop by a third this year because of the ban according to the German Brewers Association.

SABMiller’s Czech unit Plzensky Prazdroj beer sales up 2 pct in…
Forbes – Jan 29, 2008
9 million hectolitres on the back of strong export sales the company said in a release. The brewer said it exported 846000 hectolitres of beer in 2007 up 7. 7 pct year-on-year.

Costco loses state case on lowering beer wine prices
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jan 29, 2008
Costco loses state case on lowering beer wine prices. a setback on whether the giant warehouse club operator could lower the prices of beer and wine for its customers.

Sentamu stands the Pope a beer
guardian.co.uk – Jan 29, 2008
Tony Blair gave him a painting of the Catholic convert Cardinal Newman and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah presented him with a jewelled scimitar. When the Archbishop of York John Sentamu met the pontiff he gave him the Holy Grail a beer brewed in Masham North Yorkshire. It was the highlight of the archbishop’s first trip to Rome to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and to cement cordial relations between the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. Following their 15-minute chat in the Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura believed to be the burial place of St Paul Sentamu said: “I told the brewery I was meeting the Pope and they made a special brew for him.