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MOSCOW (Prime Tass) -- No. 1 brewer Baltika plans to increase exports in 2003 by 76 percent to 16 million decaliters, or 8 percent of its predicted output for the year, a company representative said Friday, Moscow times reported. The St. Petersburg-based brewer will also dip its toes into Asian markets this year with trial deliveries to South Korea, Japan and China. Fundamental to the company's expansion in the east is its $50 million brewery in Khabarovsk in the Far East, which is due to open in the first half of the year, the representative said.

13 January, 2003