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Table of the week
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Change trend

06 Mar - 07 Mar 2006
Crop 2005
2rs Barley €114.50-116.50   
6rw Barley €102.00-104.00   
2rs Malt €243.00-245.00   
6rw Malt €227.50-229.50   
Crop 2006
2rs Barley €114.00-116.00   
6rw Barley €104.50-106.50   
2rs Malt €239.50-241.50   
6rw Malt €227.00-229.00   

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The changes are compared to last Newsletter's prices. Arrows indicate the direction of the change.


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E-malt.com Newsletter 10a
March 06 - March 07, 2006

Quote of the week

"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British statesman, prime minister & writer

Currency Rates
Base Currency: Euro, EUR
on 07-March-2006

1 EUR = 1.2048 USD
1 EUR = 0.6863 GBP
1 EUR = 1.3695 CAD
1 EUR = 1.6195 AUD
1 EUR = 140.935 JPY
1 EUR = 2.5559 BRL
1 EUR = 33.6495 RUB
1 EUR = 9.6865 CNY
Base Currency: US Dollar
on 07- March-2006

1 USD = 0.8302 EUR
1 USD = 0.5697 GBP
1 USD = 1.1367 CAD
1 USD = 1.3441 AUD
1 USD = 116.997 JPY
1 USD = 2.1214 BRL
1 USD = 27.9291 RUB
1 USD = 8.0398 CNY

EUR/USD Chart

Equities of the Largest Breweries

Top Industry News
Russia & USA: Anheuser-Busch partners with Heineken to brew Bud in Russia... Click here

China: Yanjing Brewery aims to rapid domestic expansion without a foreign partner... Click here

Japan: Kirin to go its own way in repricing beers after tax changes - report... Click here

Russia: Ochakovo not for sale: seeking strategic partners... Click here

USA: Beer industry is at a "critical crossroads”, according to Miller CEO... Click here

EU: Major quantities of malt were shipped to Latin America... Click here

Australia: ABB Grain Ltd announced barley pools unchanged... Click here

EU: Malting barley prices went slightly down last month... Click here

More News
USA: Anheuser-Busch import of Grolsch to begin in April ... More Info

Germany: New marketing manager for Carlsberg Deutschland ... More Info

China: Tsingtao Brewery revenues increased by 10 % in 2005 ... More Info

EU: Malt business reported for February ... More Info

New Zealand: DB Breweries will put an end to the deepest discounts of its beers ... More Info

India: The UB Group accounts for 50 % of the beer sales in India ... More Info

UK: Muntons plc gets top marks in BRC audit ... More Info

Nigeria: Nigerian Breweries’ plant goes full scale production ... More Info

UK: REG-SABMiller PLC Additional Listing ... More Info

Russia: EGSM on the merger of Baltika with brewing companies Vena, Pikra and Yarpivo ... More Info

Canada: Cool Beer exports a BUZZ to Halifax! ... More Info

Uganda: Uganda Breweries Ltd’s Managing Director speaks out on challenges ... More Info

Belarus: In 2005 beer production in Belarus up by 19.5 per cent ... More Info

Ghana: The Biggest Corporate Fraud, as Guinness Ghana Ltd takes over Ghana Breweries Ltd ... More Info

Australia: The establishment of the ABB Grain Charitable Foundation ... More Info

USA: SABMiller unveils new image at Oscars ... More Info

Nigeria: Nigerian Breweries emerges most capitalised stock ... More Info

USA: Budweiser Select ranks among top new products of 2005 ... More Info

USA: Cargill is a New Founding Partner for LifeKnowledge FFA Initiative ... More Info



Brewery News
Russia & USA: Anheuser-Busch partners with Heineken to brew Bud in Russia

Anheuser-Busch International, Inc. and Heineken Russia announced on March 6 they have reached a licensing agreement that will allow Heineken to brew, sell and distribute Anheuser- Busch's flagship brand under the Bud trademark in Russia, according to PRNewswire-FirstCall. The brewing will begin in the next few months at Heineken Brewery LLC in St. Petersburg -- one of ten breweries that Heineken operates in Russia. Bud will be available in 330-ml and 500-ml bottles as well as 500-ml cans. The brand will be priced similar to other premium international lagers.

Bud is brewed using only the finest all-natural ingredients including barley malt, rice, hops, yeast and water. Bud will be available in high-end bars and restaurants in major Russian cities including Moscow and St. Petersburg. The brand also will be available in off-trade and key accounts in these markets.

"Russia is one of the top-five beer markets in the world and fits our international growth strategy for brand development," said Andrew J. Day, vice president, international operations, Anheuser-Busch International, Inc. "Heineken has excellent marketing and distribution systems in Russia and shares our commitment to building the Bud brand in this country. We have a strong partner to help us expand our ...
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China: Yanjing Brewery aims to rapid domestic expansion without a foreign partner

Yanjing Brewery Co. Ltd., China's third-largest brewer, hopes to sell 9.3 % more beer in 2006 to secure its dominant market share in Beijing and other cities. The brewery aims to sustain a rapid domestic expansion without a foreign partner, its president said on Tuesday, March 7, according to Reuters news.

Li Fucheng told reporters that the Beijing-based firm aimed to produce 9.3 percent more beer, or 3.4 million tonnes, in 2006, adding that it hopes to sustain gross profit margins at above 40 percent. The brewery sold 3.11 million tonnes last year.

In 2005, Li said Yanjing's revenue jumped 11 percent to 8 billion yuan (US$995 million), while net profit was expected to have risen about 5 percent from 2004, when the corporation earned just 270.51 million yuan.

Yanjing remains the only major Chinese player in the world's fastest-growing beer market that has yet to team up with a global firm. Foreign companies have scrambled in past years to seal pricy acquisitions and build breweries across the country.

"We have no plans to team up with a foreign partner so far because we have the technical expertise and sufficient funds to expand in the market," Li said on the sidelines of ...
More Info


Japan: Kirin to go its own way in repricing beers after tax changes - report

Kirin Brewery Co will break tradition and price its beers independently of the three other major Japanese brewers once revised liquor tax rates take effect in May, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported over the weekend, according to AFX News from March 3.

With the tax on a 350ml can of beer slated to fall 0.7 yen, Asahi, Sapporo Breweries Ltd and Suntory Ltd plan to lower their shipment prices by 0.75 yen in May. But Kirin intends to reduce its shipment price by 1 yen, the report said.

For larger 633ml bottles, Kirin will cut the price just 1 yen, while the other three brewers will reduce prices 1.25 yen on a tax drop of 1.26 yen, it said.

Kirin's departure from the industry tradition of going along with others is thought to be driven by its desire to unseat Asahi as the market leader, the business daily said.


Russia: Ochakovo not for sale: seeking strategic partners

Moscow's beer and non-alcoholic beverage works, Ochakovo, is not considering a sale, but does not rule out an opportunity for strategic partnership, the company's General Director Vladimir Antonov told a press conference at the end of February.

Ochakovo has been getting regular offers from leading foreign companies, but a decision was made at the shareholders' meeting not to sell the company, Antonov said. However, the enterprise could partner or cooperate with other companies, particularly in bottling other brands' products. Negotiations to this effect with undisclosed companies are under way.

Global brewers Heineken and SABMiller have declined to comment on any interest in a tie-up with Russia’s last notable independent brewer Ochakovo.

According to experts the most probable development of Anheuser-Busch could be the purchase of Ochakovo. Sources said that Ochakovo has already received an offer from Anheuser-Busch.


USA: Beer industry is at a "critical crossroads”, according to Miller CEO

The chief executive of Miller Brewing, Norman Adami, said on Monday, March 6 that the American beer industry is at a "critical crossroads," as it faces flat growth and surging competition from other alcoholic beverages, MarketWatch communicated.

Norman Adami said the industry has been "promoting sameness and increasingly going lowbrow. It is as if we (have been) promoting beer as the official beverage of the knuckleheads." In an interview with MarketWatch at the Nightclub & Bar show, Miller's Adami said the consumer has moved "in the exact opposite direction."

After decades of innovative marketing that brought beer's share of the market to about 61% in the mid 1990s, brewers fell into a pattern of "sameness in message, sameness in look and sameness in our products," Norman Adami told attendees at the annual Nightclub & Bar Show here.

Companies like Miller, a unit of SABMiller and archrival Anheuser-Busch were once among the country's "ideal marketers, right up there with the Nikes and the Apples," he added.

But as consumers began to look for more personalization and sophistication, Adami noted, the business failed to catch on quickly enough. Brewers stuck to the formulas that had worked before: mass-advertising campaigns with lots of bikinis ...
More Info

Malt News
EU: Major quantities of malt were shipped to Latin America

Malt exporters booked almost 200,000 tonnes export licences in February, major quantities were shipped to Latin America.

Total licence bookings are 77,000 tonnes behind the pace of last year. However, in 2005 spring and early summer export shipments were disappointing. If licence fixations shipments continued at the same pace in March-June as in July-February, EU exports may still come close to last year’s 2.2 million tonnes.

Barley News
Australia: ABB Grain Ltd announced barley pools unchanged

ABB Grain Ltd announced on March 7 it has reviewed its gross barley pool indicators for 2005/2006 and has left its price estimates unchanged.

ABB general manager marketing, Nigel Officer, said the company had substantially marketed most of its feed barley and now had a strong shipping program underway. “On the malting barley side, following the Chinese New Year, we are starting to receive renewed interest from the Chinese,” he said.

The current estimates for the No.1 malting pool in South Australia, which closed on January 24, is A$186/tonne, with the feed barley No.1 pool A$163/t. For the No.2 malting barley pool in SA, which opened on January 24, the estimate is A$168/t, with the feed barley No.2 pool at A$150/t.
A A$5/t premium applies to the Baudin and Sloop varieties, although this is the last season in which this premium will apply.

The current estimate for the Victorian No.1 pool, which closed on October 31, is A$191/tonne for malting barley and A$168/t for feed barley in the No.1 pool. In the east coast pool (Victoria, NSW and Queensland) the gross barley pool indicators for the No.2 pools, which closed on January 24, is A$186/t for malting barley, with the feed barley ...
More Info


EU: Malting barley prices went slightly down last month

Prices of malting barley had been sliding down slowly during the past months. According to market analysts, in late February there was a change of mood, after purchases of coops and traders in France and Denmark. It seems that France has little spring barley with a maximum protein content of 11.5 % left.

England is reported to be sold out in crop 2005, Scotland has a few cargoes left for export. Any larger new demand must be covered from Scandinavia, where stocks are large, but farmers stubbornly holding on to their barley. Prices recovered by EUR 2,- per ton from the lows.


Malting barley prices. French barley prices.
Nominal prices.

EURO = USD 1.2048 March 07, 2006 
 Crop year   2005   2006 
 Parity   FOB Creil   FOB Creil 
 Position   July 2005   July 2006 
Type   Variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  118.00  142.50  117.00  141.00 
2RS  Prestige  116.00  140.00  116.00  140.00 
2RS  Cellar  115.00  138.50  114.00  137.50 
2RS  Sebastien  114.00  137.50  114.50  138.00 
2RS  Astoria  114.00  137.50  114.50  138.00 
2RS  Cork   113.50  137.00  114.00  137.50 
6RW  Esterel   103.00  124.50  105.50  127.50 
Theoretical malt prices.

  EURO = USD 1.2048 March 07, 2006 
Crop year  2005 
Parity  FOB Antwerp 
Position  Mar 2006-Sept 2006 
Conditioning  Bulk   In bags  Bulk containers Bags, containers
Malting barley variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  247.50  298.50  262.00  315.50  262.00  315.50  264.50  318.50 
2RS  Prestige  245.50  295.50  259.50  312.50  259.50  312.50  262.00  315.50 
2RS  Cellar  244.00  294.00  258.50  311.00  258.50  311.50  260.50  314.00 
2RS  Sebastien  242.50  292.50  257.00  309.50  257.00  309.50  259.50  312.50 
2RS  Astoria  242.50  292.50  257.00  309.50  257.00  309.50  259.50  312.50 
2RS  Cork   242.00  291.50  256.50  309.00  256.50  309.00  259.00  312.00 
2RS   Average price  244.00  294.00  258.50  311.50  258.50  311.50  261.00  314.50 
6RW  Esterel   228.50  276.00  243.50  293.50  243.50  293.50  246.00  296.50 
Asia Malt 70/30  239.50  288.50  254.00  306.00  254.00  306.00  256.50  309.00 
**  Asia Malt 50/50  236.50  285.00  251.00  302.50  251.00  302.50  253.50  305.50 

NB: Prices published are theoretical malt prices including financial cost, THC (for bulk and bags container) and all administrative costs. This prices may fluctuate according to the quantity per delivery and technical specifications.

* - 70/30 = 70% Average two Rows Spring and 30% Six Rows Winter
** - 50/50 = 50% Average two Rows Spring and 50% Six Rows Winter

Theoretical malt prices for crop 2006 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
Jul 01, 2005
Feb 21, 2006
 France   701,134  661,772  774,761  674,140  458,550 
 Germany   468,314  408,063  422,047  295,876  154,425 
 Belgium   296,368  287,850  317,292  418,344  329,190 
 U.K. 350,621  294,995  443,501  201,892  134,201 
 Finland   91,890  100,758  114,165  64,986  27,205 
 Denmark    96,812  94,791  90,452  74,743  39,227 
 Sweden   101,000  76,916  78,369  88,840  79,500 
 Netherlands   51,310  66,219  80,703  49,128  58,280 
 Ireland   35,145  31,140  38,900  56,924  7,001 
 Austria   8,840  8,620  60,211  16,954  14,169 
 Spain   2,400  5,640  10,000 
 Greece   1,744  1,306  979  130 
 Portugal   221  85  695  850  680 
 Italy  
 Czech Republic       34,340  82,062  44,947 
 Poland       7,604  32,084 
 Hungary       2,830  85,792  15,978 
 Slovakia       1,000  76,916  42,830 
 Total EU   2,205,799  2,038,157  2,477,849  2,219,661  1,406,182 

  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 –February 21, 2006   2,672 
   
  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 - February 21, 2006   15,779 
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Agenda

March 2006:
China Drinktec - China International Exhibition on Beverage, Brewery and Wine Technology
Florida Brewers Guild Beer Festival. Beerfest 2006
Nightclub & Bar/Beverage Retailer Beverage & Food Convention and Trade Show
The 10th China International Exhibition on Beverage, Brewery and Wine Technology
Ale Street News' Ultimate Belgian Tasting
WORLD GRAIN CONFERENCE BANGKOK.
WorldFood / AgroWorld Uzbekistan International Exhibition 'Food Industry and Agriculture.
Brew and Beverage Industry - Beer Auction International Trade Fair
93 INTERNATIONAL BREWING AND ENGINEERING CONGRESS
MBAA Brewery Packaging Technology Course

April 2006:
2006 Australian International Beer Awards
Helsinki Beer Festival 2006
Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America 2006
BEER. WINES & DRINKS International Beer, Wine and Spirits Manufacturing Exhibition. Belarus
Wine & Spirits Asia International Exhibition of Wine, Spirits and Beer
Hevelius International Beer Festival - Beverages and Gastronomy Devices Fair
4TH BREWING RAW MATERIAL SEMINAR (ROHSTOFFSEMINAR)
World Beer Cup Competition Judging
BREWER 2006
World Beer Cup Gala Awards Dinner
Spring Beer & Wine Festival

May 2006:
THE 4 th EUROPEAN BEER AND HEALTH SYMPOSIUM
10th Annual Boonville Beer Festival
TwinTrack Brewing Microbiology Program
ALCO + SOFT International Specialized Exhibition of Drinks
Beer International Brewing Technology Exhibition
Iran food and drink tec International Food, Drink and Packaging Technology Trade
Mondial de la Biere Windsor Station & Courtyard


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