Posts Tagged: Beer and Economics
Creemore Springs Bought
Posted by on Friday, April 22, 2005 in - 43 comments
“Update: Please read the comments to this thread which go a long way to explain the situation at Creemore. I am not, however, amending my post based on those comments as I am still not a fan personally and do still think calling a beer Ur-bock is vanity itself...” • No great nashing of teeth …
Beer And Politics in Asia
Posted by on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 in - 4 comments
Three reporters based in China and I am the guy posting this story on the use of beer revenues to support the questionable content in Japanese schoolbooks: • “The news released by media report about Japan's new history textbook compilation committee, which is financially supported by Asahi Beer …
Beer is Bigger Than...
Posted by on Friday, March 11, 2005 in - leave a comment
In Canada at least, beer with sales of $7,864,437,000.00 in 2003 is bigger than: • Total attendance at movie theatres and drive-ins with sales of $1.2 billion in 2002/03: 15.3% of beer. • All wheat at $2.47 billion: 31.5% of beer. • The estimated budget of the Government of Nova Scotia for …
Beer Economics 101
Posted by on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 in - leave a comment
Here is an interesting article which shows the macro-economic factors affecting Heineken's sales and its strategy to react to them: • “Europeans also are increasingly favoring wine over beer, with the U.K. set to become Europe's biggest wine market by 2008, according to a study commissioned by …
Bulgar Beer Boom
Posted by on Tuesday, February 1, 2005 in - 5 comments
For some reason Bulgarians have increased their beer consumption almost 10% in one year: • “The total amount of beer consumed in the country was 294 million litres in 1997, reaching 425 million in 2003 and 473 million in 2004.” • By comparison in 2001/02, Canadian consumers purchased an … read more »
Japan's Beer-Like Substances
Posted by on Thursday, January 13, 2005 in - 4 comments
This is somewhat depressing news given my inclination towards quality real ale: • “Kirin to enter market for '3rd-category beer' this spring • Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 07:00 JST • TOKYO — Kirin Brewery Co said Wednesday it will join three other major Japanese breweries this spring in …
Discount Beer
Posted by on Monday, January 10, 2005 in - 3 comments
It is interesting to watch Canada's sugar-pop-beer market battle these days in light of the success of discount beers. The main maker of the low cost lagers which are grabbing a share of the market is Lakeport from Hamilton, Ontario. A new CEO has been appointed at Lakeport who has been a player … read more »
