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E-Malt.com Newsletter 08b
February 18 - February 21, 2010
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Currency Rates
Base Currency: Euro, EUR
on 19-February-2010

1 EUR = 1.3585 USD
1 EUR = 0.8703 GBP
1 EUR = 1.42 CAD
1 EUR = 1.5133 AUD
1 EUR = 123.67 JPY
1 EUR = 2.4845 BRL
1 EUR = 40.8508 RUB
1 EUR = 9.2968 CNY
Base Currency: US Dollar
on 19-February-2010

1 USD = 0.7362 EUR
1 USD = 0.6406 GBP
1 USD = 1.0452 CAD
1 USD = 1.114 AUD
1 USD = 91.0407 JPY
1 USD = 1.8288 BRL
1 USD = 30.0703 RUB
1 USD = 6.8434 CNY
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Equities of the Largest Breweries

Equities of the Largest Breweries

Average Market Prices Change Trend

February 19, 2010

Type Crop 2009 Crop 2010
2rs Barley EUR95.0-99.0 EUR120.0-124.0 0.81%
6rw Barley EUR92.0-96.0 EUR107.0-111.0 0.91%
2rs Malt EUR275.50-279.50 EUR303.0-307.0 0.49%
6rw Malt EUR271.5-275.5 EUR287.0-291.0 0.52%
Feed Barley EUR88.0-92.0 nq nq

Note: Just click on the price link and you will be led to our Market Price History. Average barley market prices are French and are estimated on FOB Creil basis. Average Malt Prices are theoretical and based FOB Antwerp being estimated on French malting barley. The changes are compared to last Newsletter's prices. Arrows indicate the direction of the change.


Top Industry News

Mexico: Grupo Modelo reports successful Q4 and full year 2009 ...Click here
Japan: Sapporo’s domestic beer sales down 5% in 2009 ...Click here
Turkey: Brewer Efes not planning big investments at home as yet ...Click here
Denmark & the Carribean: Royal Unibrew expects to close sale of Carribean breweries during the coming weeks ...Click here
Kenya: East African Breweries to invest 1.7 bln shillings in capacity expansion ...Click here
United Kingdom: Enough malting barley in the system to last until next year ...Click here
EU: Much offer, few demand for malting barley ...Click here


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Russia: SUN InBev offered to sell its idle plant in St. Petersburg region ...More Info
United States: Sources claim AB InBev cut about 90 jobs in the US, plans more ...More Info
Serbia: Sale of BIP brewery cancelled as buyers fail to meet their obligations ...More Info
Denmark: Carlsberg rated ‘buy’ by Jyske Bank ...More Info
Russia & Finland: Baltika Breweries starts shipping its Porter to Finland ...More Info
Turkey: Beer excise duty increased by 35% ...More Info
Nigeria: Nigerian Brewer expects drop in pre-tax profit, rise in turnover for Q1 ...More Info
Kenya: President urges brewers to produce a more available beer ...More Info
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Brewery News

Mexico: Grupo Modelo reports successful Q4 and full year 2009

Grupo Modelo, S.A.B. de C.V., Mexico’s largest beer producer, announced on February, 19 its fourth quarter and full year 2009 financial results.

During the fourth quarter, Modelo’s total domestic volume was stable compared with the same period of the prior year, reaching 9.4 million hectoliters, in spite of the price increase implemented at the end of the quarter and a difficult comparison base, particularly in the month of December.

The imported brand portfolio decreased 25.6%, as a consequence of the price increase carried out in the first semester to compensate for part of the exchange rate depreciation. Therefore, the total volume sold of domestic brands registered a 0.5% reduction to 9.6 million hectoliters.

Export volume totaled 3.4 million hectoliters, a 4.0% decrease with respect to the same period of 2008, as a result of the economic crisis which has affected consumption in the different export markets. It is important to highlight that in the last three quarters, the year over year change in volume has showed a slight sequential recovery. Europe and Oceania are among the regions which showed better performance, Modelo said.

Net sales grew a solid 7.9% reaching 20,358 million pesos. Domestic sales showed an increase of 7.0%, driven by a ...More Info


Japan: Sapporo’s domestic beer sales down 5% in 2009

Sapporo Holdings, the parent company of Japan’s fourth-largest brewer, said its consolidated net income amounted to 4.54 bln yen in 2009, a decline of 40.6% on 2008.

Net sales and operating income dropped too – by 6.5% to 387.53 bln yen and 12.2% to 12.90 bln yen respectively.

Overall domestic beer demand contracted an estimated 2.1% from 2008, largely as a result of unseasonable summer weather. With consumers increasingly tightening their belts, demand for conventional beer and happoshu (low-malt beer) decreased while demand for new genre beer grew a hefty 21%, Sapporo said.

Sapporo’s conventional beer sales were down 9% in 2009 as a result of consumers’ growing preference for low-priced products and a slump in demand in the commercial market. Sales in the new genre category grew 27%, outpacing overall new genre demand growth. The brewer’s overall 2009 beer sales in Japan fell 5% as a result of growth in low-priced new genre products’ share of total sales.

Overall, Sapporo’s Japanese Alcoholic Beverages business earned operating income of ¥7.4 billion (down 3% or ¥200 million from 2008) on net sales of ¥282.9 billion (down 6% or ¥16.7 billion).

With consumers expected to remain in belt-tightening mode in 2010, demand in the beer market is ...More Info


Turkey: Brewer Efes not planning big investments at home as yet

In the past four years, nearly 17,000 Efes beer sales points have either shut down or stopped selling beer, Tuğrul Ağırbaş, managing director of Efes Turkey, was quoted as saying by Hurriyet Daily News on February, 18.

Efes aims to expand the beer market in Turkey, but the number of sales points has diminished to around 83,000 from nearly 100,000 four years ago.

“The per capita beer consumption in Turkey is around 12 to 13 litters,” he said. “The European average is 100 litres. What spurs consumption is restaurants, cafes and pubs. But in Turkey, each consumer pays a special consumption tax that is nine times more than the tax paid in Germany, for example.”

Beer sales points have problems in getting licenses or renewing them, Ağırbaş said. “Beer is a key source of revenue for corner stores and kiosks. Rakı, beer and cigarettes together constitute 70 percent of a grocer’s revenue. When you take out rakı and beer, the grocer starts having a hard time,” he said. “Those who wish to open sales points cannot find places to rent. Others face neighborhood pressure. Meanwhile, chain stores are destroying corner stores.”

“Neighborhood pressure” is a term used to describe the pressure to live a ...More Info


Denmark & the Carribean: Royal Unibrew expects to close sale of Carribean breweries during the coming weeks

Danish brewer Royal Unibrew said on February, 12 all preconditions for closing the sale of its ownership in certain breweries in the Caribbean have now been met except for one.

In one of the islands, the Government has decided to grant a given licence to the purchaser. The decision has been confirmed by the Minister of Finance; however, the administration has not yet formally issued the document. Royal Unibrew said it expects the written confirmation from the local administration to be available during the coming weeks. The transaction is expected therefore to be closed in the coming weeks, too.

As previously announced, this transaction will reduce Royal Unibrew’s interest‐bearing debt by just below DKK200 million, and the net selling price of the shares is at the level of their carrying amount.

Royal Unibrew announced the conditional agreement with the Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana (CND) brewery in the Dominican Republic to sell its shares of the breweries in Dominica, St. Vincent and Antigua to CND in August 2009.


Kenya: East African Breweries to invest 1.7 bln shillings in capacity expansion

Kenya's East African Breweries will invest 1.7 billion shillings in a year, expanding capacity to raise exports and snatch sales from informal brewers, its finance director was quoted as saying by Reuters on February, 17.

Majority held by the world's biggest drinks group, Diageo, EABL is looking to boost growth in the second half after costs, weaker local currencies, higher spirits taxes and sluggish economies hit first-half pretax profit.

Brewers say there are rich expansion prospects in Africa, where per capita beer consumption ranges from single digit litres in some nations to nearly 60 litres in wealthier countries such as South Africa and Gabon.

"We are going to put in an additional keg line in this plant at about 700 million shillings. We are also going to put a new bottle line in Uganda which will also cost us just over a billion Kenya shillings," Finance Director Peter Ndegwa said.

"The keg line will be installed in the next six months whilst the line in Uganda will be installed in the next nine months," he said.

He was speaking after the firm commissioned a new 80,000 bottles-an-hour packaging line and a brew house. Both facilities were built in the past year for about 3.5 billion ...More Info


Barley News

United Kingdom: Enough malting barley in the system to last until next year

Over production across Europe last year, together with a fall in beer sales, means there is enough quality barley in the system to last until January 2011, Bob King, commercial director of the Crisp Malting Group, was quoted as saying on February, 19 by Farmers Weekly Interactive.

"It's a much more competitive market now than it has been in recent years," he told the HGCA malting barley workshop in Bury St Edmunds this week. "Quality will be absolutely critical when it comes to selling the 2010 crop. Any recreational planting this spring will do nothing but damage to the malting barley market."

Growers with storage should make good use of it, he advised. "There will be some very cheap barley around at harvest, as the maltsters won't be buying any more than they have to. Malting activity is closely linked to brewing demand."

Spring barley is preferred to winter, added Mr King. "There simply isn't any call for winter barley, except from regional brewers, and all the recent breeding progress has been with the spring crop. In England, there's a particular requirement for spring barley in the 1.6-1.7 nitrogen range, for lager production."

Despite the somewhat gloomy outlook for this harvest, Mr King was ...More Info


EU: Much offer, few demand for malting barley

EU’s malting barley market abounds in offers as resellers and producers look to make some room in the silos, La Depeche posted on February, 19.

However, the market lacks activity as the demand for malting barley remains very limited. Market participants are waiting for the beginning of planting.

Scientific Digest

Relationship Between Quality Parameters and SKCS Hardness Index in Malting Barley

Takashi Nagamine, Takahiro Sekiwa, Emiko Yamaguchi, Mika Oozeki and Tsuneo Kato

J. Inst. Brew. 115(4), 292–295, 2009 ABSTRACT
To make an efficient and laborsaving quality selection in a malting barley breeding program, the relationship between malting quality parameters and the hardness index (HI) measured by Single Kernel Characterization System (SKCS) 4100 was studied with barley genetic resources and a group of descendant lines from “Yon Rkei 1363” that possess the high lysine allele lys1 and a very high diastatic power (DP). There was a highly significant correlation between the grain HI and the malt extract both in the genetic resources (r = –0.48**) and in the lys1 parent- derived lines (r = –0.50**). Malt HI showed a highly significant correlation with malt extract (r = –0.70** in genetic resources, r = –0.57** in the lys1 parent-derived lines) and malt total protein (r = 0.73**, 0.84**, respectively). For the selection of very high DP lines from the lys1 parent-derived group, high grain HI selection was effective as all the very high DP lines had much harder grain characteristics. Therefore SKCS was regarded as a useful tool for quality selection in malting barley breeding. Key words: Diastatic power, grain hardness, Hordeum vulgare, malt quality, SKCS.br> Load full article, 4 pages, 142kb , PDF file

Barley Prices
EURO = USD 1.3585 February 19, 2010  
 Crop year   2009   2010 
 Parity   FOB Creil   FOB Creil 
 Position   July 2009   July 2010 
Type   Variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  99.00  134.50  124.00  168.50 
2RS  Prestige  98.00  133.50  123.00  167.50 
2RS  Cellar  97.00  132.00  122.00  166.00 
2RS  Sebastien  96.00  130.50  121.00  164.50 
2RS  Tipple  96.00  130.50  121.00  164.50 
2RS  Henley  96.00  130.50  121.00  164.50 
6RW  Esterel   94.00  128.00  109.00  148.50 

French Feed Barley Prices. Nominal prices
EURO = USD 1.3585 February 19, 2010
Crop year 2009
Parity FOB Creil
Position July 2009
Type EURO USD
Feed Barley 90.00 122.27


Theoretical Malt Prices

  EURO = USD 1.3585 February 19, 2010 
Crop year  2009 
Parity  FOB Antwerp 
Position  Feb 2010 - Sept 2010 
Conditioning  Bulk   In bags  Bulk containers Bags, containers
Malting barley variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  279.50  380.00  311.00  422.50  303.50  412.00  317.50  431.50 
2RS  Prestige  278.50  378.50  309.50  420.50  302.00  410.50  316.50  429.50 
2RS  Cellar  277.50  376.50  308.50  419.00  300.50  408.50  315.00  428.00 
2RS  Sebastien  276.00  375.00  307.50  417.50  299.50  407.00  313.50  426.50 
2RS  Tipple  276.00  375.00  307.50  417.50  299.50  407.00  313.50  426.50 
2RS  Henley  276.00  375.00  307.50  417.50  299.50  407.00  313.50  426.50 
2RS   Average price  277.50  376.50  308.50  419.00  300.50  408.50  315.00  428.00 
6RW  Esterel   273.50  371.50  304.50  414.00  297.00  403.50  311.50  423.00 
Asia Malt 70/30  276.00  375.00  307.50  417.50  299.50  407.00  314.00  426.50 
**  Asia Malt 50/50  275.50  374.00  306.50  416.50  299.00  406.00  313.00  425.50 


EURO = USD 1.3585 February 19, 2010 
Crop year  2010 
Parity  FOB Antwerp 
Position  Oct 2010 - Sept 2011 
Conditioning  Bulk   In bags  Bulk containers Bags, containers
Malting barley variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  307.50  417.50  338.50  460.00  331.00  449.50  345.50  469.00 
2RS  Prestige  306.50  416.00  337.50  458.50  330.00  448.00  344.00  467.50 
2RS  Cellar  305.00  414.50  336.50  457.00  328.50  446.50  343.00  465.50 
2RS  Sebastien  304.00  412.50  335.00  455.00  327.50  444.50  341.50  464.00 
2RS  Tipple  304.00  412.50  335.00  455.00  327.50  444.50  341.50  464.00 
2RS  Henley  304.00  412.50  335.00  455.00  327.50  444.50  341.50  464.00 
2RS   Average price  305.00  414.50  336.50  457.00  328.50  446.50  343.00  465.50 
6RW  Esterel   289.00  392.50  320.50  435.00  312.50  424.50  327.00  444.00 
Asia Malt 70/30  300.50  408.00  331.50  450.50  324.00  440.00  338.00  459.50 
**  Asia Malt 50/50  297.00  403.50  328.50  446.00  320.50  435.50  335.00  455.00 

NB: Prices published are theoretical malt prices including financial cost, THC (for bulk and bags container) and all administrative costs. This prices may fluctuate according to the quantity per delivery and technical specifications.

* - 70/30 = 70% Average two Rows Spring and 30% Six Rows Winter
** - 50/50 = 50% Average two Rows Spring and 50% Six Rows Winter

Prices Evolution

Prices evolution

Table of the Week

Sales of Members of the Union of Brewers in Bulgaria, 2008-2009

in hl 2008 2009
Heineken Zagorka Brewery 1,753,963 1,659,223
Kamenitza (CVC Group) 1,519,451 1,362,270
Carlsberg Bulgaria 1,497,380 1,312,713
Boliarka Brewery 490,183 449,647
Lomsko Pivo 112,117 88,412
Others 204 215
Total 5,373,298 4,872,480
Source: The Union of Brewers in Bulgaria
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Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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