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...But despite consumer demand for value, flagship premium brands are what the brewers really want to sell....
...“Growing non-oil income is a key economic strategy of this government,” says Keith Richards, a veteran of Nigeria’s consumer goods industry who used to run a subsidiary in the country of Guinness, the brewer...
...Guinness Nigeria, the country’s second-biggest brewer, has similar troubles....
...Nigeria’s second-biggest beer brewer on Monday reported its net income for the past six months to December fell 66 per cent....
...Alan Clark, chief executive, said the trading environment in the brewer’s key European markets “remains difficult”....
...Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association, representing US craft brewers, thinks the impact here will be minimal: “Most craft brewers operate in a different sphere....
...“CRM projects have a reputation for failing to deliver if users don’t accept the system,” says Mr Brewer....
...In October, Danone sold its Frucor energy drink business to Suntory of Japan, while last month Lion Nathan, which is 46 per cent owned by Kirin, the Japanese brewer, bid A$7.7bn (US$5.3bn) for Coca-Cola...
...Later on Thursday Marston’s announced it had acquired Refresh, the brewer that makes Duchy Originals Organic Ale, one of the range of products made under the brand name established by the Prince of Wales...
...S&N acquired Courage in 1995, the deal which made it the leading UK brewer....
...S&N has already agreed to shift up to 3m hectolitres of production to Coors Brewers....
...Punch’s managed pubs include brands such as Chef and Brewer and Wacky Warehouse. M&B owns the O’Neills, Harvester, Ember Inns, Toby Carvery and All Bar One brands....
...The group has also developed a new brand, Table Table, aimed at 30 to 45- year-olds seeking a “modern pub experience” and is changing 102 Brewers Fayre pubs to that format....
...S&N has also attacked Heineken, saying the Dutch brewer undervalued the businesses it would acquire through the planned break-up bid....
...Investors are to ratchet up the pressure on Scottish & Newcastle, the UK brewer, to talk to Carlsberg and Heineken about a fresh joint bid approach by the European brewers....
...Alan Parker, chief executive, said that Whitbread’s chains, Premier Inn, Costa Coffee, Beefeater and Brewers Fayre, were gaining market share as consumers made more definitive brand choices....
...the Scottish based brewer, pitched at 750p a share....
...Closest to M&B’s line of business was Allied-Lyons, the brewer and pub company, which in 1991 announced it had lost £150m through some aggressive dollar/sterling hedges....
...Baltic Beverages Holding, the brewer jointly owned by warring partners Scottish & Newcastle and Carlsberg, reported sharply higher profits on Wednesday and raised its forecasts for volume growth in its Russian...
...Of the Brewers Fayre chain, 100 would be remodelled by the end of the financial year, with a further 100 next year and the last 70 the year after....
...The brewer’s shares dropped 70p to £14.13. Analysts said sales volumes appeared to be slowing in the group’s three most profitable regions: South Africa, Latin America and Europe....
...Because of his Australian background and the fact that he is not a brewer, he has been seen as an outsider....
...The group, which owns the Premier Travel Inn hotel chain and the Beefeater and Brewers Fayre pub-restaurant chains, announced the decision following a review of its capital structure which began in October...
...Nicola Brewer, we already know, is heading off to be chief executive of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, having been thwarted in her ambition to be either our “man” in Paris or the permanent...
...David Brewer, Lord Mayor of London, is in Tokyo this week to encourage closer ties between the two great financial centres....
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