Latvia: Latvian breweries sold 115.53 million litres of beer in the first ten months of the year. The largest brewing company was Aldaris – it sold 45.3 million litres of beer during January – October 2004 and held 39.3 % of the national beer market. The second largest brewery was Cåsu alus, which sold 17.2 million litres of beer for the period, with 14.9% of the beer market. The third was Livu us having sold 14.2 million litres of beer and covered 12.3% of the market. The list of brewers is continued by: Lacplesa alus selling 8.3 million litres of beer (7.2% of the market), Mamas D — 5.9 million litres (5.1%), Piebalgas alus — 3.3 million litres (2.8%), Agrofirma Tervete – 3.2 million litres (2.8%), Alus names — 2.9 million litres (2.5%).

28 November, 2004