E-Malt: The 40 beer giants of the world for 2003

The 40 beer giants of the world for 2003

Rank	Brewery	Country	Beer production in million hl	Percentage of world beer production
1	Anheuser-Busch	USA	152.0	10.3 %
2	SAB-Miller	South Africa/USA	137.8	9.3 %
3	Heineken	Netherlands	99.0	6.7 %
4	Interbrew	Belgium	97.9	6.6 %
5	Carlsberg	Denmark	88.8	6.0 %
6	AmBev	Brazil	67.4	4.6 %
7	Modelo	Mexico	41.9	2.8 %
8	Coors	USA	38.6	2.6 %
9	Tsingtao	China	32.6	2.2 %
10	Scottish&Newcastle	United Kingdom	31.8	2.2 %
11	Asahi	Japan	25.9	1.8 %
12	Femsa (Cuauhtemoc)	Mexico	24.6	1.7 %
13	Santo Domingo (Bavaria)	Columbia	23.5	1.6 %
14	Kirin	Japan	23.1	1.6 %
15	Yan Ying	China	22.3	1.5 %
16	Molson	Canada	21.0	1.4 %
17	Baltika	Russia	16.1	1.1 %
18	Schincariol	Brazil	15.0	1.0 %
19	San Miguel	Philippines	14.8	1.0 %
20	Diageo/Guinness	United Kingdom/Ireland	13.0	0.9 %
21	Foster’s	Australia	12.7	0.9 %
22	BGI/Castel	France	12.6	0.9 %
23	Efes	Turkey	11.8	0.8 %
24	Harbin	China	11.7	0.8 %
25	Chang	Thailand	11.1	0.8 %
26	Polar	Venezuela	11.0	0.7 %
27	Lion Nathan	New Zealand/Australia	10.6	0.7 %
28	Mahou–San Miguel	Spain	10.3	0.7 %
29	Hite	South Korea	10.0	0.7 %
30	Gold Star	China	9.4	0.6 %
31	Chong Qing	China	9.1	0.6 %
32	Zhu Jiang	China	8.8	0.6 %
33	Holsten	Germany	8.8	0.6 %
34	Sapporo	Japan	8.5	0.6 %
35	Radeberger	Germany	7.6	0.5 %
36	Brau und Brunnen	Germany	7.2	0.5 %
37	Suntory	Japan	6.8	0.5 %
38	Damm	Spain	6.1	0.4 %
39	Ochakovo	Russia	6.0	0.4 %
40	Bitburger	Germany	5.8	0.4 %
1-40	Total (1-40)		1,173.0	79.3 %
World beer production 2003			1,478.5	100.0 %

Source: Joh.Barth

21.07.2004