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Currency Rates
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Base Currency: US Dollar
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1 EUR = 1.0772 USD
1 EUR = 0.7276 GBP
1 EUR = 1.3680 CAD
1 EUR = 1.4126 AUD
1 EUR = 129.3200 JPY
1 EUR = 3.4655 BRL
1 EUR = 62.2900 RUB
1 EUR = 6.5798 CNY
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1 USD = 0.9282 EUR
1 USD = 0.6754 GBP
1 USD = 1.2699 CAD
1 USD = 1.3113 AUD
1 USD = 120.0400 JPY
1 USD = 3.2171 BRL
1 USD = 57.8258 RUB
1 USD = 6.1082 CNY
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Currency Rates Chart
Equities of the Largest Breweries
Average Market Prices Change Trend
| April 01, 2015 |
| Type |
Crop 2014 |
Crop 2015 |
| EUR |
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EUR |
% |
| 2rs Barley |
175.00-177.00 |  |
191.00-193.00 |  0.52% |
| 6rw Barley |
173.00-175.00 | |
176.00-178.00 | 0.57% |
| 2rs Malt |
368.00-370.00 | 0.16% |
384.50-386.50 | 0.32% |
| 6rw Malt |
365.50-367.50 | 0.16% |
366.00-368.00 | 0.34% |
| Feed Barley |
172.00-174.00 | 0.58% |
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World: Heineken announces organisational changes to better focus on growth opportunities
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India: AB InBev pulls out of JV in India that the US Department of Justice is investigating for corruption
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Ethiopia: International brewers helping transform Ethiopia’s business landscape
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USA: Yakima Valley’s hop industry booming and expected to continue this way
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Kenya: Keroche Breweries commission new 5.5 bln shillings brewing plant
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USA: The Brewers Association publishes the top 50 craft and overall brewing companies list
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Myanmar: Beer and other alcoholic beverages production on the rise
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Greece: The Macedonian Thrace Brewery criticizes approval of Carlsberg’s Mythos Brewery and Olympic Brewery merger
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USA: Corn prices tumble on news of larger-than-expected domestic stockpiles and spring plantings
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USA & Mexico: Heineken USA CEO leaving his post to become chief executive of Heineken Mexico
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Indonesia: New regulation to prohibit sale of beer at convenience stores and small shops as from this month
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Australia: Beer marketed as being 100% Australian owned fined after found out to be actually produced in China
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EU Barley Supply and Distribution 2010 -2015f
Prices Evolution
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Scientific Digest
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ABSTRACT
A few more insights into understanding hop aroma were gained by these Belgian researchers who took 15 different hop varieties and carried out a set of comprehensive analyses. Not only were the hops analyzed, they were also used to produce different types of single hop variety beers with early hopping, late hopping and dry hopping. The hop varieties chosen were Cascade, Centenntial, Citra, Challenger, Cluster, Columbus, Galena, Magnum, Nugget, Palisade, Saaz, Simcoe, Sorachi Ace, Tettnanger and Warrior. The components measured were alcohols, saturated esters, unsaturated esters, monoterpene hydrocarbons, monoterpene alcohols, sesquiterpene hydrocarbons and oxygenated sesquiterpenes. Within these groups of compounds varietal differences were obvious. The total concentration of esters before fermentation is variety dependent, but fermentation changes the picture. Transfer rates were calculated for linalool and geraniol, and in the case of gerianol, it was discovered that it is formed from other compounds during the course of brewing. Missing are the tasting results that could connect the analysis results with sensory impressions, but perhaps there is more to follow.
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These Days in Business History
30 March
1858 - Pencil with attached eraser patented by Hyman L. Lipman
1867 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward agrees to purchase the Alaskan territories from Russia for $7,200,000
31 March
1889 - 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution
1896 - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also know as the zipper
1917 - U.S. purchases Danish West Indies for $25M and renames them Virgin Islands
01 April
1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
1826 - Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois
1935 - India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India is formed
1986 - World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1989 - Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland
2015 - Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne
Agenda
March 2015:
01-06: 15th IBD Africa Section Convention 2015 (Maputo, Mozambique)
11-14: Brazilian Beer Festival - Festival Brasileiro da Cerveja 2015 (Blumenau, Brazil)
13-15: Barcelona Beer Festival 2015 (Barcelona, Spain)
20-21: BeerX 2015 2015 (Sheffield, UK)
31 March - 02 April: ProPak Vietnam 2015 (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
April 2015:
14-17: Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America 2015 (Portland, USA)
21-23: Brewer (Pivovar) 2015 (Moscow, Russia)
23-25: Shanghai International Brew & Beverage Manufacturing Technology and Equipment 2015 (Shanghai, China)
25-26: Zythos 2015 (Leuven, Belgium)
May 2015:
06-08: bevtec Asia 2015 (Bangkok, Thailand)
07-23: The Czech Beer Festival 2015 (Prague, the Czech Republic)
18-20: Beer (Pivo) 2015 (Sochi, Russia)
24-28: EBC 2015 (Porto, Portugal)
26-28: Alimentaria Mexico 2015 (Mexico City, Mexico)
28-30: Copenhagen Beer Festival 2015 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
28-31: Latvia Beer Fest 2015 (Riga, Latvia)
June 2015:
10-14: Mondial de la Biere 2015 (Montreal, Canada)
July 2015:
01-04: Ollesummer 2015 (Tallinn, Estonia)
15-17: Brasil Brau 2015 (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
August 2015:
11-15: The Great British Beer Festival 2015 (London, UK)
September 2015:
19 September - 14 October: Oktoberfest 2015 (Munich, Germany)
24-26: Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2015 (Stockholm, Sweden)
October 2015:
01-03: Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2015 (Stockholm, Sweden)
November 2015:
10-12: Brau Beviale 2015 (Nuremberg, Germany)
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Brewery News
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World: Heineken announces organisational changes to better focus on growth opportunities
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Heineken N.V. on March 31 announced that in order to accelerate the delivery of its global strategy it will make changes to its operating model and ways of working. The changes will allow the business to better focus on growth opportunities, to be more agile in responding to consumer needs in the marketplace and be more cost effective in doing so.
The key changes are:
The business will be regrouped around 4 geographic regions. The existing regions of Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe will be united to form a single Europe region, focused primarily on the European Union markets. Stefan Orlowski, President Americas, will lead this region. The existing Africa Middle East region will be combined with Russia and Belarus to form a new region, Africa Middle East and Eastern Europe. Roland Pirmez, President Asia Pacific, will lead this new region. Marc Busain, Managing Director CM/HEINEKEN Mexico, becomes President of the existing Americas region and Frans Eusman, Chief Business Services Officer, becomes President of the existing Asia Pacific region.
The Head Office organisation, both functional and regional will be streamlined. The roles of Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Sales Officer will be combined at a
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USA: MillerCoors going through troubled times
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MillerCoors LLC has a problem: It hasn’t named a new CEO.
It’s the latest sign of trouble at a joint venture formed seven years ago
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India: AB InBev pulls out of JV in India that the US Department of Justice is investigating for corruption
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Anheuser-Busch InBev said in a regulatory filing it was pulling out of a joint venture in India that the U.S. Department of Justice is
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Ethiopia: International brewers helping transform Ethiopia’s business landscape
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International brewers are helping transform Ethiopia's business landscape as it slowly sells the assets of the former communist state and opens up to foreigners drawn to one of Africa's fastest growing economies, Reuters reported on April 1.
Heineken, Diageo, and privately-owned Dutch brewer Bavaria have snapped up state breweries or built new ones in the past four years, introducing new beverages and increasing competition for St George, Ethiopia's oldest beer brand, that was itself bought by France's Castel Group in 1998.
The east African nation that once could not feed itself now draws investors keen to profit from the increasing prosperity of its 96 million people.
"We recognise the huge potential in Ethiopia," Diageo said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters. It bought state-owned Meta Abo brewery for $225 million in 2012 and has doubled brewing capacity and invested in new brands. It launched Zemen Beer in December and non-alcoholic Malta Guiness in August 2013.
Heineken bought state-owned Bedele and Harar Breweries for a combined $163 million in 2011, introducing the Walia beer, which bar staff in Addis Ababa say is catching up St George.
A few years ago, small bars struggled to get hold of crates of St George as they were bought up
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Kenya: Keroche Breweries commission new 5.5 bln shillings brewing plant
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Keroche Breweries has commissioned a 5.5 billion shillings brewing plant as it seeks to boost its presence in the market, The Standard Digital News reported on March 31.
The Naivasha based brewer will now have a production capacity of 600 thousand bottles a day as it sets out to shake up the country’s beer market.
The fresh investment in the plant has seen Keroche cast its eyes on the East African market as fresh hunting ground for consumers.
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USA: The Brewers Association publishes the top 50 craft and overall brewing companies list
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The Brewers Association (BA)—the not-for-profit trade group representing small and independent craft brewers—on March 31 released its annual lists of the top 50 craft and overall brewing companies in the U.S., based on beer sales volume. Of the top 50 overall brewing companies, 42 were craft brewing companies1.
“The companies on this list include the vanguard of the craft industry,” said Bart Watson, chief economist, Brewers Association. “They are exposing new beer lovers to craft, opening new markets and creating opportunities for the entire category. As they continue to grow, so will the availability of innovative and high-quality beers produced for all to enjoy.”
The top 5 US craft brewing companies 2014 are:
1. D. G. Yuengling and Son, Inc. (Pottsville, PA), which surpassed Boston Beer as the nation’s top craft brewer for the first time;
2. Boston Beer Co. (Boston, MA);
3. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (Chico, CA);
4. New Belgium Brewing Co. (Fort Collins, CO);
5. Gambrinus (Shiner, TX).
The US top 5 overall brewing companies are:
1. Anheuser-Busch, Inc (St. Louis, MO);
2. MillerCoors (Chicago, IL);
3. Pabst Brewing Co (Los Angeles, CA);
4. D. G. Yuengling and Son, Inc (Pottsville, PA);
5. Boston Beer Co (Boston, MA).
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Myanmar: Beer and other alcoholic beverages production on the rise
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Local beverage production in Myanmar often tops 25 million gallons annually, and in this fiscal year, more than 33 million gallons were produced between
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Greece: The Macedonian Thrace Brewery criticizes approval of Carlsberg’s Mythos Brewery and Olympic Brewery merger
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A deal that will see Carlsberg’s local unit pick up a major Greek brewer has come under attack from another local group, Namnews reported on March 31.
The Macedonian Thrace Brewery has criticized the Hellenic Competition Commission’s decision to approve the merger of Mythos Brewery (Carlsberg) and Olympic Brewery (Fix). MTB claims the unconditional approval means that at least 85% of the Greek beer market is controlled by Carlsberg and Heineken, both of whom are foreign-owned groups.
In criticising the decision, MTB said the move is to “the detriment of locally owned breweries or new entrants”, adding that “the HCC has saddled the Greek consumer with the prospect of continuing high prices and less choice.”
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USA & Mexico: Heineken USA CEO leaving his post to become chief executive of Heineken Mexico
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White Plains-based Heineken USA announced on March 31 that Dolf van den Brink, president and CEO, will become the chief executive of Heineken Mexico on July 1. Ronald den Elzen, managing director of Heineken Portugal, will succeed van den Brink in the U.S. post, Westfair Online reported.
As CEO of Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma/Heineken Mexico, a subsidiary of Dutch brewing company Heineken International with brands such as Tecate and Dos Equis, van den Brink will lead more than 16,000 employees. Heineken officials said in the announcement he will aim to help the company achieve its vision of becoming the leading brewer in Mexico.
Van den Brink has been with Heineken for 17 years. He came to the White Plains headquarters in 2009 after working at Bralima, Heineken’s operating company in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the announcement, van den Brink improved the American business by restoring top line growth and driving consistent market share gains. Van den Brink, who is Dutch, was named one of Fortune’s “40 under 40” in 2012 for turning around the business and changing company culture.
In an interview with the Business Journal in April 2013, van den Brink said he replaced the CEO office’s walls with glass ones,
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Indonesia: New regulation to prohibit sale of beer at convenience stores and small shops as from this month
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Alcohol can be a hard sell in Indonesia, which has more Muslims than any other country. It is about to get a whole lot tougher, Today Online reported on March 28.
A regulation supported by Islamic groups that is scheduled to come into effect in April will prohibit the sale of beer at convenience stores and other small shops in the world’s fourth-most-populous country.
The ban adds to a growing list of measures by President Joko Widodo’s administration that run counter to the pro-business messages he presented while campaigning for office last year. At stake are beer sales in South-east Asia’s largest economy, where domestic consumption makes up more than half of gross domestic product and the government is trying to spur growth, foreign investment and tourism.
“Losing this channel will mean a big decline in sales for leading beer manufacturers,” said Ms Yulia Fransisca, a senior analyst at Euromonitor International. “The government will continue to be pressurised to create more restrictions on alcoholic drinks by Islamic groups in the country.”
Beer sales climbed 11 per cent last year, Euromonitor research showed. Beer producers in the country include PT Multi Bintang Indonesia and Diageo, which brews and distributes Guinness through a third-party arrangement with
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Australia: Beer marketed as being 100% Australian owned fined after found out to be actually produced in China
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A beer marketed as being 100% Australian owned has been fined after it emerged the brew was actually made in China, The Drinks Business reported on March 30.
Aussie Beer was sold by Australia’s Independent Liquor Group (ILG) between March and August 2014 and was packaged with a map of Australia and the words “100% owned” and “made from Australia’s finest malt” on the label. It also featured green and gold colours, which are closely associated with Australian sporting teams.
When the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) discovered the beer was actually brewed in China, it ruled that the label could mislead consumers and ordered the ILG, an Australian owned co-operative set up to increase the buying power of small independent liquor retailers, to pay fines of AUS$10,200.
“Country of origin representations, particularly those designed to grab the eye of the consumer by using well known symbols, colours, or slogans, must be truthful,” ACCC chairman Rod Sims said. “Consumers will often place a premium on the provenance of a product, but are unable to check the accuracy of those claims.
“This is particularly the case with Australian made products which encourage consumers to support local industries. Consumers are entitled to expect that prominent
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USA: Corn prices tumble on news of larger-than-expected domestic stockpiles and spring plantings
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U.S. corn prices tumbled on March 31 after federal analysts estimated larger-than-expected domestic stockpiles and spring plantings of the grain, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The U.S. Agriculture Department report also helped drive down wheat-futures prices, while soybeans climbed as storage and planting estimates for the oilseed came in below analysts’ forecasts.
The USDA said domestic corn stockpiles on March 1 totaled 7.75 billion bushels, surpassing analysts’ expectations for 7.63 billion bushels. That figure was 11% higher than stockpiles last March, due in part to record corn production last year.
Growers in 2014 harvested 14.22 billion bushels of corn after favorable weather conditions during the growing season boosted yields. Analysts said the report suggested that use of the grain by domestic livestock farmers in the last quarter also may have been lower than expected as producers substituted products like dried distillers’ grains—a co-product of corn ethanol—into feed for cattle and pigs.
The USDA’s projection for planted acres of corn “was a bit of a surprise,” said John Kleist, director of research with brokerage firm EBOT Trading LLC.
Corn for May delivery declined 18.25 cents, or 4.6%, to $3.7625 a bushel at the Chicago Board of Trade.
U.S. farmers increasingly have been planting more soybeans in recent
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Hops News
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USA: Yakima Valley’s hop industry booming and expected to continue this way
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The sights and sounds of a new hop yard — started no less by a fruit company in an area that has not seen
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