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Change trend

15 Jan - 17 Jan, 2007
Crop 2006
2rs Barley €207.0-209.0   
6rw Barley €185.0-187.0   
2rs Malt €404.0-406.0   
6rw Malt €376.0-378.0   
Crop 2007
2rs Barley €157.0-159.0   
6rw Barley €142.0-144.0   
2rs Malt €330.0-332.0   
6rw Malt €310.5-312.5   

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E-malt.com Newsletter 03a
January 15 - January 17, 2007

Quote of the week

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit
German Proverb


Currency Rates
Base Currency: Euro, EUR
on 17-January-2007

1 EUR = 1.2944 USD
1 EUR = 0.659 GBP
1 EUR = 1.5134 CAD
1 EUR = 1.6522 AUD
1 EUR = 155.953 JPY
1 EUR = 2.7803 BRL
1 EUR = 34.3713 RUB
1 EUR = 10.0956 CNY
Base Currency: US Dollar
on 17-January-2007

1 USD = 0.7727 EUR
1 USD = 0.5091 GBP
1 USD = 1.1692 CAD
1 USD = 1.2765 AUD
1 USD = 120.489 JPY
1 USD = 2.148 BRL
1 USD = 26.5545 RUB
1 USD = 7.7996 CNY

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Equities of the Largest Breweries

Top Industry News
Germany: Beer consumption in Germany rose in 2006 for the first time in six years... Click here

Czech Republic: Velke Popovice has become one of the three biggest brewers in the country... Click here

UK: SABMiller beer volumes has grown 10%... Click here

Russia: Beer preferred instead of vodka... Click here

Lithuanaia: Lithuanian beer exports shrank in 2006... Click here

Czech Republic: Budvar exported record-high 556,000 hl of beer in 2006... Click here

Ethiopia: Lone Malt Factory ceased operations because of barley lack... Click here

USA: Barley crop down 15%... Click here

More News
Latvia: Aldaris increased its beer sales by 16 pct in 2006 ... More Info

UK: Scottish & Newcastle sells Courage beers to Wells & Young ... More Info

Sweden: Systembolaget’s sales grew thanks to strong beer ... More Info

USA: Bankruptcy for Pittsburgh Brewing could be avoided ... More Info

Australia: Colin Carter joins Foster's Board of Directors ... More Info

Australia: SABMiller brings O&M back for Foster's brand ... More Info

Russia: Natalia Batyuk is SUN InBev’s new Marketing Director ... More Info

Ukraine: Fewer companies will pretend for barley export licenses/quotes ... More Info

USA & UK: Rainey Kelly has won the Bud Bucks promotion ... More Info

Vietnam: Vietnam brewery acquired a 5 pct stake in a bank ... More Info

USA: Saint Arnold Brewing Company reports record production in 2006 ... More Info

Australia: Coopers Brewery to release a special beer can for World Police & Fire Games ... More Info

Bulgaria: Breast-enhancing Boza beer gains popularity in EU ... More Info



Brewery News
Germany: Beer consumption in Germany rose in 2006 for the first time in six years

Beer consumption in Germany rose in 2006 for the first time in six years, mainly as a result of the football World Cup and an unusually hot summer, Deutsche Presse-Agentur announced on January 16.

The German Brewers Association said Germans drank an average of 117.8 litres of beer last year, about the same quantity as 2003 and 2 per cent more than 2005.

Beer consumption has been steadily declining in Germany since 1976 when consumption in then West Germany was 151 litres per head.

After unification in 1990 consumption dropped from 142 litres in 1992 to below 120 litres in 2003.

Last summer saw temperatures soar above 30 Celsius for weeks on end in June and July. The World Cup in Germany also led to an increased demand for beer by soccer fans, the brewers association said.


Czech Republic: Velke Popovice has become one of the three biggest brewers in the country

Velke Popovice produced 1527 million hl of beer in 2006 which is the best result the company has ever had, media announced on January 15.

This made Velke Popovice one of the three biggest brewers in the country. In the last 4 years, the company’s beer production has risen by 40%, the most consistent grow trend in the domestic industry. These results were reached due to production modernization sustained by 50 million crones in investments.

Velke Popovice was founded in 1874 when it produced 18000 hl of beer. Today, the brewer is a member of Plzensky Prazdroj Holding, the biggest beer producer in Europe and also the biggest beer exporter in Czech Republic. The most important Holding’s brands are Kozel, Gambrinus, Pilsner Urkvell and Radegast.

In the same time, Plzensky Prazdroj is owned by SABMiller – the 2nd world’s biggest beer producer.


UK: SABMiller beer volumes has grown 10%

Global brewing giant SABMiller announced it sold 10 percent more beer in the third quarter as it expanded in emerging markets including China and India and said its financial performance was in line with its own expectations, Reuters reported on January 17.

SABMiller, the world's second-biggest brewer and maker of Miller Lite, Peroni and Castle, added its underlying beer volumes for its financial year to date, or nine months to end-December 2006, increased by 9.5 percent.

The London-based group's third-quarter (Oct-Dec 2006) trading statement included figures from South American brewer Bavaria, which it purchased in October 2005. The 10 percent third-quarter rise in beer volumes compared with a 9 percent rise in its first-half (April-Sept 2006).

"The group's financial performance has been in line with our expectations outlined at the time of the interim results announcement, despite the headwinds experienced at Miller and in South Africa, and the comparatively weaker South African rand/U.S. dollar exchange rate prevailing in the quarter," the group said.

In its South African beer business, that brews Carling, Hansa, and Castle and earns just over 30 percent of group profits, third-quarter volumes and nine-month beer volumes showed a rise of almost 1 percent.

In South America, beer volumes rose 12 percent, ...
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Russia: Beer preferred instead of vodka

Vodka will lose its title of Russian national drink, the analysts said on January 16. During last several years the vodka consumption has been decreasing gradually, replaced by wine and cocktails. In the next five years the sales of vodka will decrease by a quarter and that of wine will grow 3 times.

According to specialist the sales of vodka and wine have decreased substantially: those of wine with 7.5% till 10.25 million hl and those of vodka with 3.9% till 17.56 hl.

The vodka consumption is decreasing continuously according to Euromonitor and fell 15% from year 2000. It also foresees a 3.9-4.9% decrease each year registering 20% by 2011.

As for beer, the sales grew 10.4% in 2006 and by 2011 it’s expected a 24.3% growth. In order to stop the vodka sales’ shrink, market operators try to promote the expensive vodka brands.


Lithuanaia: Lithuanian beer exports shrank in 2006

In 2006, members of the Lithuanian Association of Breweries exported 1.23 mln dal of beer or 300,000 dal less than in 2005 (1.52 mln dal), Baltic Business News reported January 12.

According to brewers, the largest beer exporter last year was Kalnapilio-Tauro Grupe which overtook Svyturys-Utenos Alus, export leader in 2005.

Svyturys-Utenos Alus was also overtaken by Gubernija, which previously ranked third in terms of exports. Last year, it exported 457,000 dal of beer (377,000 dal in 2005).

Last year, Svyturys-Utenos Alus exported 245,000 dal of beer. Two years ago, when the group was top exporter in Lithuania, its exports were 664,000 dal.


Czech Republic: Budvar exported record-high 556,000 hl of beer in 2006

Czech state-owned brewery Budejovicky Budvar increased its beer exports by 7 percent to 556,000 hectoliters in 2006, spokesman Petr Samec told CTK January 15.

Budvar raised exports above all to its key markets in Germany, Great Britain, Slovakia, and Austria. It sold beer to 50 countries of the world.

"We appreciate the result the more that competition in these countries is extremely fierce and demand for beer is stagnant or even falls slightly," said Budvar sales director Robert Chrt.

Budvar also raised beer output, by 5 percent to 1.151 million hectolitres, in 2006. The brewery came third among Czech beer exporters, trailing Plzensky Prazdroj and Pivovary Staropramen.

Exports to Germany grew by 5 percent on the year to 190,000 hectolitres and sales to Britain added 11 percent to 106,000 hl. Budweiser Budvar was also the only Czech product included in the prestigious CoolBrands list for this year.

Demand for beer in Germany and Britain is falling slowly, which makes the figures more valuable, said Chrt. "It has turned out that our strategic decision to sell beer to these markets through our own subsidiaries was correct," said Samec.

Sales to Slovakia rose by 10 percent to 60,000 hl of beer, while exports to Austria jumped 23 ...
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Malt News
Ethiopia: Lone Malt Factory ceased operations because of barley lack

Farmers more encouraged by what the market offers for their barley than by what they receive from a factory has led the state owned Assela Malt Factory to cease production for over four months, Addis Fortune reported on January 16. The local brewery industry thus has been forced to depend on imports of malt.

The state owned, lone malt processing industry, Assela Malt Factory, has ceased production as of September 2006, due to farmers in the area who are unwilling to supply the factory barely.

Located in the town of Assela, 167Km southeast of Addis, the factory supplied mainly the state owned breweries. The Factory has the capacity of producing 150,000 quintals of malt that requires an input of 230,000 quintals of barely. When first established in 1984, the Factory was thought to have received its barely supplies from the state owned farms in Arsi and Bale. Economic changes in the early 1990s forced these state farms to switch their main products to wheat, which was believed to have a better market. The Factory had to depend on farmers in the Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, for its supplies ever since.

Barely accounts for 13pc of cereals grown in Ethiopia, and it is ...
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Barley News
USA: Barley crop down 15%

Barley production is estimated at 180 million bushels, unchanged from the Small Grains 2006 Summary but down 15% from last year, according to the USDA, SNS News reported on January 12.

Average yield per acre, at 61.0 bushels, is the same as the previous estimate but 3.8 bushels below 2005. The area harvested for grain is estimated at 2.95 million acres, unchanged from September but 10% below a year ago.

Planted area, at 3.45 million acres, is unchanged from the previous estimate but 11% lower than in 2005. Area harvested for grain is the lowest since 1885, while production is the lowest since 1936. Harvested area is down in most States, including the four States with the largest acreage.


Malting barley prices. French barley prices.
Nominal prices.

EURO = USD 1.2944 January 17, 2007 
 Crop year   2006   2007 
 Parity   FOB Creil   FOB Creil 
 Position   July 2006   July 2007 
Type   Variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  210.00  272.00  160.00  207.50 
2RS  Prestige  209.00  270.50  159.00  206.00 
2RS  Cellar  208.00  269.50  158.00  204.50 
2RS  Sebastien  207.00  268.00  157.00  203.50 
2RS  Astoria  207.00  268.00  157.00  203.50 
2RS  Cork   206.00  267.00  156.00  202.00 
6RW  Esterel   186.00  241.00  143.00  185.50 

Prices for Danish malting barley are available on site www.e-malt.com/MarketPrices

Theoretical malt prices.
  EURO = USD 1.2944 January 17, 2007 
Crop year  2006 
Parity  FOB Antwerp 
Position  Jan 2007-Sept 2007 
Conditioning  Bulk   In bags  Bulk containers Bags, containers
Malting barley variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  407.50  527.50  430.50  557.00  424.50  549.00  435.00  562.50 
2RS  Prestige  406.50  526.00  429.50  555.50  423.00  547.50  433.50  561.00 
2RS  Cellar  405.50  524.50  428.00  554.00  421.50  546.00  432.50  559.50 
2RS  Sebastien  404.00  523.00  426.50  552.50  420.50  544.50  431.00  558.00 
2RS  Astoria  404.00  523.00  426.50  552.50  420.50  544.50  431.00  558.00 
2RS  Cork   402.50  521.50  425.50  550.50  419.50  542.50  430.00  556.50 
2RS   Average price  405.00  524.50  428.00  553.50  421.50  545.50  432.00  559.50 
6RW  Esterel   377.00  489.50  401.00  519.00  394.50  511.00  405.50  524.50 
Asia Malt 70/30  397.00  513.50  419.50  543.50  413.50  535.50  424.00  549.00 
**  Asia Malt 50/50  391.50  507.00  414.50  536.50  408.00  528.50  418.50  542.00 

* - 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 2007 are available on site www.e-malt.com/MarketPrices

Table of the week

World Barley Production

Local Marketing Years, Thousand Metric Tons
Country 2002
2003
2003
2004
2004
2005
2005
2006
2006
2007 Dec
2006
2007 Jan
Algeria 416 1,220 1,314 400 1,450 1,450
Australia 3,865 10,387 7,708 9,869 4,200 4,200
Belarus 1,681 1,800 2,000 1,800 1,350 1,350
Canada 7,489 12,328 13,186 12,481 10,000 10,000
China, Peoples Republic of 3,322 2,717 3,222 3,400 3,500 3,500
Ethiopia 1,200 1,410 1,575 1,785 1,800 1,800
EU-25 56,509 54,826 61,727 52,769 54,863 54,817
India 1,500 1,410 1,310 1,080 1,400 1,400
Iran 3,085 2,900 2,900 2,900 2,900 2,900
Iraq 1,000 1,150 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250
Kazakhstan, Republic of 2,200 2,100 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500
Morocco 1,669 2,620 2,760 1,102 2,500 2,500
Russian Federation 18,700 18,000 17,200 15,80 18,500 18,100
Turkey 7,200 6,900 7,400 7,600 7,200 7,200
Ukraine 10,364 6,850 11,100 9,000 11,800 11,800
United States 4,940 6,059 6,091 4,613 3,920 3,920
Others 9,707 10,229 11,951 10,643 10,545 10,615
World Total 134,847 142,906 154,194 137,992 138,678 138,302
Source: USDA
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1928 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented

January 16
1868 Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, NYC)

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Agenda
January 2007:
2007 Barley Improvement Conference, USA.
IFBM (The French Institute for Brewing and Malting) Advanced Course In Malting Technology


February 2007:
Singapore international beer festival.
WBA International Diploma in Brewing Technology Program Chicago
Grainworld 2007, Canada.


March 2007:
Beer Day, Iceland.
WorldFoodUzbekistan - 2007.
World Barley Malt & Beer Conference.
The 2nd International Trading Summit: Grains & Oilseeds, Turkey.




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