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Average market prices Change trend

27 May 2005
Crop 2004
2rs Barley €100.5 -0.99%
6rw Barley €99.0       
2rs Malt €231.5 -0.43%
6rw Malt €228.5     
Crop 2005
2rs Barley €112.0     
6rw Barley €102.0     
2rs Malt €241.0     
6rw Malt €227.5     

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Average barley market prices are French and are estimated on FOB Creil basis.
Average malt market prices are estimated on FOB Antwerp basis.
The changes are compared to last Newsletter's prices.
Arrows indicate the direction of the change.


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Base Currency: Euro, EUR
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1 EUR = 1.2515 USD
1 EUR = 0.6876 GBP
1 EUR = 1.5860 CAD
1 EUR = 1.6501 AUD
1 EUR = 135.02 JPY
1 EUR = 3.0165 BRL
1 EUR = 35.1459 RUB
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1 USD = 0.5495 GBP
1 USD = 1.2673 CAD
1 USD = 1.3185 AUD
1 USD = 107.93 JPY
1 USD = 2.4103 BRL
1 USD = 28.083 RUB
1 USD = 8.2865 CNY

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Equities of the Largest Breweries

Top Industry News
    Russia & Belgium: InBev will own 99.7% economic interest in SUN Interbrew Ltd ... Click here

    Hong Kong: Kingway says still no progress in Heineken stake talks ... Click here

    India: SABMiller increases stake in Indian brewing business to 99% ... Click here

    Spain: 33.34 % stake in Spanish brewer Mahou will be sold by Groupe Danone ... Click here

    UK: InBev buys back Beck's UK for EUR 97.7 million from Scottish & Newcastle ... Click here

    Sweden: Co-operation procedure at Viking Malt Söderhamn has ended ... Click here

    IGC: The 2005/2006 forecast for world barley production is estimated at 140 mln tonnes ... Click here

    Canada: CWB Pool Return Outlook for feed and malting barley ... Click here

    USA: Hops growing reappears in New York State again ... Click here


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    Ukraine: 2005 barley crop is estimated at 10 million tonnes ...more info

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    Russia: Efes looks to quadruple production ...more info

    Russia: Baltika brewery posted its 1st quarter 2005 results in accordance with to IFRS ...more info

    UK: This will be the year of decision for spring barley ...more info

    Canada: Sleeman Brewery is launching the new Original Draught ...more info

    Canada: CGC develops method to measure the degree of pre-germination in barley ...more info

    Colombia: A loan of up to $250 million will help Bavaria to improve its credit profile ...more info

    USA: Anheuser-Busch expects improvement in sales, profit ...more info

    Mexico: FEMSA expects $617 million from share sale ...more info

    UK: Tyne brewery owned by S&N closed after 120 years of brewing history ...more info

    UK: Brewer Young's launches trio of websites as part of online push ...more info

    USA: Anheuser-Busch’s deliveries are disrupted by a strike at St. Louis ...more info

    USA: Heineken USA Introduces Luxury Light Beer ...more info

    South Africa: SAB promotes moderate and responsible consumption of its brands ...more info

    UK: Jennings will continue brewing beer ...more info

    UK: Barley research at the Scottish Crop Research Institute receives funding ...more info


Brewery News
Russia & Belgium: InBev will own 99.7% economic interest in SUN Interbrew Ltd

InBev S.A. announced on May 27 that it closed its offers to acquire remaining minority interests in SUN Interbrew Ltd on 26 May 2005...more info



Hong Kong: Kingway says still no progress in Heineken stake talks

Kingway Brewery Holdings Ltd. announced on May 26 there has been no progress so far in discussions with Dutch giant Heineken N.V., which is eyeing a bigger stake in the fast-growing Chinese beer maker.

Heineken's joint venture with Singapore's Asia-Pacific Breweries Ltd. and Kingway have said they are in preliminary talks for the Dutch brewer to lift its stake in the Chinese firm from the current 21.44 %.

Kingway Brewery, which has a leading market position in the affluent southern province of Guangdong, said in a statement that it was informed by its controlling shareholder and Heineken-APB China Pte Ltd., which holds the 21.44 % stake, that "there has been no progress" since a previous announcement in late April.

Heineken is competing with global rivals such as Anheuser-Busch and SABMiller to expand its share of China's fast-consolidating beer market, the world's largest by volume. Early last year, the Dutch brewer paid HK$1.85 per share for its stake in Kingway.

Shares in Kingway, previously known as Guangdong Brewery, were unchanged at HK$2.675 shortly after market opened on Thursday. The stock has fallen more than 6 percent in the month to Wednesday's close and 9 percent in the past three months.



India: SABMiller increases stake in Indian brewing business to 99%

SABMiller plc announced on May 27 that its Indian subsidiary, MBL Investments (‘Mysore’), has acquired the Shaw Wallace Group’s 50% interest...more info



Spain: 33.34 % stake in Spanish brewer Mahou will be sold by Groupe Danone SA

Groupe Danone SA announced on May 25 it sell its 33.34 % stake in Spanish brewer Mahou to the company's other shareholders for about EUR 600 million...more info ...more info



UK: InBev buys back Beck's UK for EUR 97.7 million from Scottish & Newcastle

InBev and Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) announced on May 27 that they have reached an agreement that will enable InBev to sell, market and distribute the Beck’s brand in the UK, seven years earlier than allowed under the terms of the existing licensing arrangement. The transaction has already been closed, InBev announced today.

InBev said that it got back the distribution rights for Beck’s® in the U.K., for a price or net present value of 97.7 million euro. This agreement will bring forward the date on which the Beck’s® brand will be fully integrated into the InBev portfolio in the U.K., InBev said. Scottish & Newcastle said the new agreement will generate royalties to S&N from InBev of around £77m. This sum will be paid in agreed annual rates up to the end of the original licence period to 2012.

Beck’s® annual volumes sold in the U.K. in 2004 amounted to approximately 600,000 hectoliters in on-and off-trade, combined. InBev is confident that this brand will be a great asset to Interbrew UK’s portfolio. The unique positioning of Beck’s®, based on its quality and tradition, will certainly create value for Interbrew’s U.K. operations.

Scottish & Newcastle entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for the Beck’s® brand in 1987, which at the time was owned by Brauerei Beck GmbH & Co. In 2001, InBev acquired the German brewery, Beck & Co and, as part of this transaction, it took over the agreement with Scottish & Newcastle for the distribution of Beck’s® in the UK. The distribution agreement was scheduled to run until May 2012. ...more info

Malt News

Sweden: Co-operation procedure at Viking Malt Söderhamn has ended

Viking Malt announced on May 25 that co-operation procedure and negotiations at Viking Malt’s malting house in Söderhamn, Sweden have ended...more info



Barley News

IGC: The 2005/2006 forecast for world barley production is estimated at 140 mln tonnes

According to the International Grain Council’s (IGC) estimation, forecast for barley production in 2005/2006 is down 4 million metric tonnes...more info

Canada: CWB Pool Return Outlook for feed and malting barley

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) released on May 27 its Pool Return Outlook (PRO) for the 2004-05 crop year. For feed barley, Pool B is up C$1 per tonne...more info

Hops News

USA: Hops growing reappears in New York State again

Hops, one of the main ingredients for brewing beer, reappears in New York Sate again. Hops used to be one of the New York State's major crops, but about 50 years ago farmers stopped growing the crop.

"Prohibition was really the final nail in the coffin for hops. We did go through a lot of disease problems with the verticillium, wilt and the molds and fungal attacks, in the early 1900's," said Cornell University agriculture development specialist, Duncan Hilchey.

With help from Cornell University and the Northeast Hop Alliance, the hops industry may be brewing again.

The Pederson Farms in Seneca Castle grew a test plot, and one local brewery can't get enough of them. "There is one grower that we know that is successfully growing hops. And we bought his entire crop last year. I don't know what his numbers were the year before but we bought virtually all of it the year before. And we have committed to buying his entire crop this year which like I said 10 times what he grew last year," said the owner of the Ithaca Beer Co., Dan Mitchell. ...more info

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* - 70/30 = 70% Average Two Row Spring and 30% Six Row Winter
** - 50/50 = 50% Average Two Row Spring and 50% Six Row Winter

Theoretical malt prices for crop 2005 are available on site www.e-malt.com/MarketPrices

Malting barley prices. French barley prices.
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Barley Price Evolution
French Malting Barley Price Evolution Crop 2004

Table of the week
Mexico Barley, in thousand metric tonnes

  1996/97  97/98  98/99  99/00  00/01  01/02  02/03  03/04  04/05  05/06f 
 Production  614  380  410  450  770  767  770  900  750  750 
 Imports  131  196  155  212  119  66  31  41  75  75 
 From US  131  116  95  101  96  60  28  15  na  na 
 Feed Use  200  150  150  150  150  150  150  150  150  150 
 Total Use  770  576   585  653  850  850  850  850  900  950 

Source: USDA/FAS

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Agenda

May 2005:
2nd KBC festival of Dutch special beers;
TwinTrack Brewing Microbiology Program. The Siebel Institute;
PIVO, GASTRO, BAKERY, International exhibition of beer and brewing. Bulgaria.;
HOFEX 2005. 11th Asian International Exhibition of Food & Drink. Hong Kong;
30th Congress of the European Brewery Convention;
World Agricultural Forum 2005 World Congress;
Whole Grain Conference / Barley Workshop - Minneapolis;
Export Credit Guarantee Programs Seminar. USDA;
Pivo-2005. Beer International Brewing Technology Exhibition. Sochi, Russia.;
California Festival of Beers;

June 2005:
World Barley, Malt & Beer Conference 2005, Germany;
ASBC Annual Convention. American Society of Brewing Chemists Meeting.;
IGC GRAINS CONFERENCE 2005;
BRASIL BRAU International Fair of Beverage Technology;
FOOD TAIPEI 2005. The largest food and beverage show in Taiwan;
BevTek / BrewTek International Exhibition of Beverage and Brewery Processing and Packaging Technology. Bangkok, Thailand ;

July 2005:
Interwine China. International Wine, Brewery and Beverage Processing Technology and Equipment Trade Fair;
2005 North American Barley Researchers Workshop;
U.S. Grains Council Summer Board Meeting;
District Eastern Canada MBAA annual convention;
Open Door to "Mortal's Beers";

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