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Crop 2005
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E-malt.com Newsletter 32a
August 08 - August 10, 2005
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Currency Rates
Base Currency: Euro, EUR
on 10-August-2005

1 EUR = 1.2371 USD
1 EUR = 0.6923 GBP
1 EUR = 1.5021 CAD
1 EUR = 1.6259 AUD
1 EUR = 138.54 JPY
1 EUR = 2.8400 BRL
1 EUR = 35.1559 RUB
1 EUR = 10.0415 CNY
 Base Currency: US Dollar
on 10-August-2005

1 USD = 0.8087 EUR
1 USD = 0.5597 GBP
1 USD = 1.2142 CAD
1 USD = 1.3144 AUD
1 USD = 112.02 JPY
1 USD = 2.2957 BRL
1 USD = 28.418 RUB
1 USD = 8.1170 CNY

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Equities of the Largest Breweries

Top Industry News
USA: Anheuser-Busch launches Tilt- a new, innovative malt beverage... Click here

UK: Scottish & Newcastle releases financial results speaking about strong performance... Click here

Japan: Kirin brewery announces lower operating profit... Click here

Czech Republic: Czech Anti-Monopoly Office gives OK to Plzensky Prazdro... Click here

Canada: Big Rock Brewery Income Trust Announces 2nd Quarter Results... Click here

EU: Analysts about malt quotes... Click here

World: Global barley trade to North Africa, Jordan, Saudi-Arabia and Japan... Click here

France: The latest standing of barley crops... Click here

More News
USA: North Carolina takes the first step in removing alcohol cap on beverages ...more info

USA: Oxford unlikely to accept cold beer sales ...more info

UK: Green King announces director’s shareholdings ...more info

Romania: Barley harvest sharply down ...more info

Hungary: Barley harvest nearly completed ...more info

Germany: EU’s directive over barmaids’ dress code, engenders fury in Bavaria ...more info

Germany: Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der visits Altona’s Holsten brewery ...more info

Germany: Mild beers –the new beer industry’s increasing trend ...more info

USA: McMenamin wants St. Edward State’s historic seminary building as a pub and conference centre ...more info

Canada: CWB ends most challenging marketing year in memory ...more info

New Zealand: DB’s Amstel Light rising star in light beer category ...more info

Japan: Japanese beer for children enjoying tremendous popularity ...more info

Philippines: Brewer San Miguel feeling the economic pinch ...more info

Bahrain:Four Indians jailed for running illegal brewery in Bahrain ...more info

USA: Hot weather helps Minnesota’s barley harvest ...more info



Brewery News

USA: Anheuser-Busch launches Tilt- a new, innovative malt beverage

As contemporary adults across the country prepare to kick off a fresh week of happy hours and nights out on the town, Anheuser-Busch is kicking off the phased, nationwide launch of Tilt, a new, innovative malt beverage featuring an assorted blend of caffeine, guarana, and ginseng, announced the brewer on August 8.

This “5 p.m. after-work drink,” which offers a bold berry-flavor, is part of the emerging, flavored caffeinated malt beverage category and an ideal choice for those seeking something new to help start the night.

“From happy hour to a night out at a club, contemporary adults are looking for innovative beverages that fit into their fast-paced, highly-social lifestyles,” said Pat McGauley, vice president, Innovation/New Products, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. “Tilt was developed with this in mind because it is suited to a variety of drinking occasions.”
Tilt is brewed with two-row malt, natural grains, hops, yeast and water and infused with raspberry flavor, caffeine, guarana and ginseng at Anheuser-Busch’s Cartersville Brewery. It is fermented at cold temperatures and allowed to develop natural carbonation as it slowly matures.

“The nationwide launch of Tilt demonstrates Anheuser-Busch’s commitment to the development of innovative new alcohol beverages,” said McGauley. “We recognize that contemporary adults have many choices ...

...more info

UK: Scottish & Newcastle releases financial results speaking about strong performance

Scottish & Newcastle announced on August 9 its half year financial results.

Highlights
• Organic growth in beer volumes of 5.5%
• EPS +9.9% on a comparable basis
• UK - Strong performance, market share growth drives operating profit growth of 11%
• BBH - 14% volume growth and 32% operating profit growth
• International - Difficult market conditions in Western Europe contribute to a 10% fall in operating profit
• Interim dividend for six months to 30 June 2005 – 7.04p

S&N adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on 1 January 2005. A full reconciliation between UK GAAP and IFRS for the year to 31 December 2004 was published on 26 April 2005. The comparatives for the last year in this release are under IFRS.

Commenting on the results, Chairman, Sir Brian Stewart said:-‘This is a good performance, with underlying profit up 4.0%, with earnings per share up 9.9% on a comparable basis and free cash flow of GBP96m. S&N has a strong balance of interests and market positions in the UK, Western Europe and key rapidly growing markets, in particular Russia and India. This breadth of activity has stood the business well during these six months when we have been able to rise to ...

...more info

Japan: Kirin brewery announces lower operating profit

The Japanese brewer, Kirin announced on August 10, its 1/2 year operating profit dropped 16 % with its popular beer-like drink failing to boost its overall beer-related sales, according to Reuters, and lowered its annual profit growth forecast.

Kirin introduced a so-called "third-type" beer in April, snatching the top market share in the growing products that include regular beer and low-malt happoshu. field from third-ranked Sapporo Holdings Ltd. The added market share, however, failed to boost Kirin's overall sales of beer-related Third-type beers are made from ingredients such as hops, bean protein and caramel and taste like beer, but like the low-malt happoshu, they escape the high taxes on beer because the ingredients mean they are not classified as beer.

Kirin, whose products include Lager and Ichiban beers, posted a group operating profit of 37.53 billion yen ($335.8 million) for the six months to June, against 44.87 billion yen a year earlier.

It reduced a little its annual operating profit forecast to 110 billion yen from a previous projection of 111 billion yen. That compared with a 109.4 billion yen profit in 2004 and an average forecast of a 110 billion ...

...more info

Czech Republic: Czech Anti-Monopoly Office gives OK to Plzensky Prazdroj

The Czech Anti-Monopoly Office has accepted the plans of Plzensky Prazdroj brewery to set up its own network of Pilsner Urquell Original Restaurants, Hospodarske noviny announced on August 8.

This decision overturns an original verdict where franchising contracts between the brewery and restaurant operators are regarded as competition rules violation.

UOHS said an yes to the restaurant chain launch on the condition that the brewery must not limit restaurant operators in what beer they sell. The condition means that Pilsner Urquell Original Restaurants could also tap other kinds of beer, the daily states. Alexej Bechtin, PR spokesman says the company would respect the new UOHS resolution.


Canada: Big Rock Brewery Income Trust Announces 2nd Quarter Results

Big Rock Brewery Income Trust reported on August 5, to Unitholders its unaudited consolidated financial results for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2005. These results reflect the consolidated operations of the Trust, Big Rock Brewery Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiaries Kamloops Brewery Ltd. and Whistler Brewing Company Ltd.

Financial Highlights for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2005 compared with the same periods for 2004 are as follows:

Net income for the quarter ending June 30, 2005 was C$1,695,494 compared to C$2,213,802 for the three months ended June 30, 2004. The decrease is largely due to the reduction in net revenue caused by a changing sales mix year-over-year and a non-cash C$258,660 stock based compensation charge this quarter. Year-to-date net income is down by C$940,334 from C$3,637,253 last year to C$2,696,919 this year.

Net income per unit decreased to C$0.29 for the three months ended June 30, 2005 from C$0.38 for the three months ended June 30, 2004. Year-to-date net income per unit decreased to C$0.46 for the six months ended June 30, 2005 from C$0.64 for the six months ended June 30, 2004. ...

...more info

Malt News

EU: Analysts about malt quotes

Firmer EU malting barley prices and good malt call-offs since early June have in the end led to higher malt quotes.

According to analysts, if barley markets remain steady in coming months, then maltsters’ losses would remain at a high level.

Barley News

World: Global barley trade to North Africa, Jordan, Saudi-Arabia and Japan

The trade of barley to North Africa, Jordan, Saudi-Arabia and Japan in July was well above 1 million tonnes, Syria announced a tender for 210,000 tonnes.

The world barley balance will be tight, even though crop prospects in Canada and Australia have gotten better.

France: The latest standing of barley crops

In France the crop of winter barley is not entirely done in the North, but generally results are very good.

Esterel barley came off the fields with good yields, average 7 tons/ha, 75 % of full barley (above 2,5 mm) and favourable protein contents averaging 10,5 - 11 %. Two-row winter barley Vanessa was better in grain size, 85 - 90 %, and higher in protein, 11 - 12 %, as usual.

Spring barley harvest is done South of Paris, well advanced in the East, but delayed North of Paris by frequent showers and rains.

Results so far are heterogeneous, the Depeche Agricole estimates that 20 % of malting barley are lost because of lower yields and higher screenings, and at least another 10 % due to higher proteins.

Comparing with last year's record harvest, these figures are poor, but they still look good on the background of long-term average numbers.


Malting barley prices. French barley prices.
Nominal prices.

EURO = USD 1.2371 August 10, 2005 
 Crop year   2004   2005 
 Parity   FOB Creil   FOB Creil 
 Position   July 2004   July 2005 
Type   Variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  nq  nq  121.00  150.00 
2RS  Prestige  nq  nq  121.00  150.00 
2RS  Cellar  nq  nq  121.00  150.00 
2RS  Aspen  nq  nq  nq  nq 
2RS  Optic  nq  nq  nq  nq 
2RS  Sebastien  nq  nq  120.00  148.50 
2RS  Astoria  nq  nq  120.00  148.50 
2RS  Cork   nq  nq  119.00  147.50 
6RW  Esterel   nq  nq  108.00  134.00 
nq - Not quoted
Prices for Danish and UK malting barley are available on site www.e-malt.com/MarketPrices

Table of the week
EU Malt Export Licence Fixations:

(in tonnes)   2001-2002   2002-2003   2003-2004  2004-2005   July 01, 2005 - July 27, 2005  
 France   701,134  661,772  774,761  674,140  60,000 
 Germany   468,314  408,063  422,047  295,876  10,340 
 Belgium   296,368  287,850  317,292  418,344  44,287 
 U.K. 350,621  294,995  443,501  201,892  33,093 
 Finland   91,890  100,758  114,165  64,986  1,020 
 Denmark    96,812  94,791  90,452  74,743  6,500 
 Sweden   101,000  76,916  78,369  88,840  8,000 
 Netherlands   51,310  66,219  80,703  49,128  3,940 
 Ireland   35,145  31,140  38,900  56,924  - 
 Austria   8,840  8,620  60,211  16,954  1,500 
 Spain   2,400  5,640  10,000  -  - 
 Greece   1,744  1,306  979  130  - 
 Portugal   221  85  695  850  85 
 Italy   -  2  -  -  - 
 Total EU 15  2,205,799  2,038,157  2,432,075  1,942,807  168,765 
 New EU members  May-June, 04     
 Czech Republic       34,340  82,062  3,135 
 Poland       7,604  32,084  - 
 Hungary       2,830  85,792  1,454 
 Slovakia       1,000  76,916  7,489 
 Total EU 25   2,205,799  2,038,157  2,477,849  2,219,661  180,843 

  Total Wheat malt, tonnes  
Total 2001-2002    12,805 
Total 2002-2003    30,908 
Total 2003-2004    15,768 
Total 2004-2005    8,162 
July 01/2005 – July 27/2005    500 
   
  Total Roasted malt, tonnes  
Total 2001-2002    23,480 
Total 2002-2003    23,603 
Total 2003-2004    24,438 
Total 2004–2005    27,212 
July 01/2005 – July 27/2005    1,506 
Graph of the week
Source: Brasseurs Belges

Agenda
August 2005:
IFDE INDIA 2005 / INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK EXH
Great British Beer Festival BA Gathering
Flour City Brewers Fest,the summer beer event in Rochester
FOOD EXPO 2005, Hong Kong. Food & Beverage
18th Annual Great Taste Of The Midwest
FOOD INGREDIENTS SOUTH AMERICA 2005, Sao Paulo, Brazil
35th BCCA Canvention 2005

September 2005:
International Brewery and Soft Drinks Industry Exhibition. Ukraine
4th WORLD BEER & DRINKS FORUM, before the drinktec in Munich
Great Canadian Beer Festival
4th World Beer & Drinks Forum 2005
Brew Cruise to New England/Canada
Drinktec 2005. Munich, Germany
Fremont Oktoberfest,Seattle, WA, USA
Munich Oktoberfest 2005
Keighley Beer, Cider & Perry Festival
Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival
Great American Beer Festival
Harpoon Octoberfest

October 2005:
7th Annual Charlotte Oktoberfest
Custom Brewcrafters Autumn Festival Of Ales
MBAA Brewing & Malting Science Course
BJ's Beer Appreciation Night Woodland Hills - Oktoberfest - Bavaria's Best Beers
10th Annual World Beer Festival
5th Annual Autumn Brew Review
Anuga 2005,a biennial show and is known as the world’s most important trade fair
New England Beer Fest


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