Influenced by country's third place position in the soccer World Cup, Turkish beer production increased by 9.06% up to 292.6 million liters in the first five month of 2002, if compared with the same period of 2001, a report from Hurriyet and State Statistics Institute said. Only in May 2002 Turkish brewers produced 80.2 million liters of beer, in comparison with 69.2 million liters produced in May 2001.

17 July, 2002