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E-Malt.com Newsletter 03b
January 14 - January 17, 2010
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Currency Rates
Base Currency: Euro, EUR
on 15-January-2010

1 EUR = 1.4513 USD
1 EUR = 0.8906 GBP
1 EUR = 1.494 CAD
1 EUR = 1.5619 AUD
1 EUR = 132.775 JPY
1 EUR = 2.5646 BRL
1 EUR = 42.7514 RUB
1 EUR = 9.9236 CNY
Base Currency: US Dollar
on 15-January-2010

1 USD = 0.6891 EUR
1 USD = 0.6137 GBP
1 USD = 1.0294 CAD
1 USD = 1.0762 AUD
1 USD = 91.4869 JPY
1 USD = 1.767 BRL
1 USD = 29.4567 RUB
1 USD = 6.8376 CNY
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Average Market Prices Change trend

January 15, 2010

Type Crop 2009 Crop 2010
2rs Barley EUR100.0-104.0 EUR125.0-129.0
6rw Barley EUR94.0-98.0 EUR113.0-117.0
2rs Malt EUR284.0-288.0 EUR313.5-317.5
6rw Malt EUR276.5-280.5 EUR298.5-302.5
Feed Barley EUR93.0-97.0 nq nq

Note: Just click on the price link and you will be led to our Market Price History. Average barley market prices are French and are estimated on FOB Creil basis. Average Malt Prices are theoretical and based FOB Antwerp being estimated on French malting barley. The changes are compared to last Newsletter's prices. Arrows indicate the direction of the change.


Top Industry News

Japan: Beer shipments drop by 2.1% in 2009 ...Click here
Denmark: Carlsberg had a good year 2009 - CEO ...Click here
Netherlands: Efes Breweries International reports a 3.1% decline in sales volume 2009 ...Click here
Japan: Asahi’s beer sales decline by 2.8% in 2009 ...Click here
Turkey: Anadolu Efes domestic beer sales grow 0.5% in FY2009 ...Click here
Netherlands & Mexico: Heineken to push its flagship brand through FEMSA’s distribution - CEO ...Click here
Romania: Heineken to close one of its Romanian breweries ...Click here
United Kingdom: Final barley production 2009 figure set at 6.77 mln tonnes ...Click here


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Japan: Kirin shares plans and targets for the current year ...More Info
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Belarus: Beer exports up 2.7% in 2009 ...More Info
Australia: Growers disappointed by decision to downgrade their malting barley to feed ...More Info
Switzerland: Heineken not Keineken ...More Info
Slovenia & Serbia: Slovenian brewer planning a plant in Serbia ...More Info
United States: New Anheuser-Busch beer to be available nationwide starting from February ...More Info
Japan & South Korea: Asahi beer enjoys increased demand from Korean customers in 2009 ...More Info
Australia: Victoria’s malting barley crop 2009-10 fails ...More Info
Zambia: Zambian Breweries Group needs excise duty decreased to boost beer sales ...More Info
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Japan: Beer shipments drop by 2.1% in 2009

Japan’s beer shipments fell 2.1% to 472.51 million cases in 2009, Dow Jones reported on January, 14.

The volume marked the fifth-straight year of decline. A shrinking population and weak economy continued to pull down domestic demand, while changing consumer tastes and poor weather during the peak summer season also dragged on beer sales.

Asahi Breweries Co. managed to maintain the top spot in domestic market share by shipping 177.2 mln cases in 2009 (37.5%). Kirin Holdings Co., with sales of 176.8 mln cases, had a 37.4% share of Japan’s beer market.

Suntory Holdings Ltd. retained third position in market share with 12.3%, followed by Sapporo Holdings Ltd. with 11.7%.

Shipments refer to the volume of beer on which tax authorities impose a liquor tax. One case is equivalent to 12.66 litres of beer.


Denmark: Carlsberg had a good year 2009 - CEO

Danish brewer Carlsberg had a good year in 2009 by focusing on costs, Chief Executive Jorgen Buhl Rasmussen was quoted as saying by the Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin magazine on January, 15.

"We have had a really good year, but with a somewhat different agenda that has been more focused on costs than on bringing a lot of new products to the market," Rasmussen said.

His remarks preceded the company's full-year results due on Feb. 23.

A 200 percent increase in beer excise taxes in the important Russian market from Jan. 1 poses a new challenge for Carlsberg, the world's fourth biggest brewer and market leader in Russia.

"In the short term, this will be negative," Rasmussen said. "The market will be negatively affected when this big tax is imposed regardless of our price strategy."

"The total (Russian) market will fall in terms of volume in 2010 - by more than it would otherwise," he said, according to the magazine.

He declined to spell out how Carlsberg would deal with the Russian tax hike, but indicated that price increases could not be avoided, the magazine said.

"But with the operations we have, the brands we have and the strengths that we have, I think we can take market share ...More Info


Netherlands: Efes Breweries International reports a 3.1% decline in sales volume 2009

Efes Breweries International N.V. (“EBI” or “the Company”) announced on January, 13 its sales volume figures for the year ended 31.12.2009.

In FY2009, EBI’s consolidated sales volume was 13.6 mln hl, indicating a decline of 3.1% compared to the previous year.

Organic sales volume (By excluding i) January – February 2009 sales volume of JSC Lomisi in Georgia, which EBI acquired in February 2008 and started full consolidation starting from March 1st 2008, ii) the sales volume of Efes Serbia, which is excluded from EBI’s financials after the end of 1H2008) declined by 2.2% in the period.

Despite continued challenges in the operating geography, the consolidated sales volumes in the last quarter of 2009 decreased only slightly by 0.6% compared to the same period of the previous year. This was achieved through focused, innovative and memorable but cost effective marketing activities leading EBI to outperform the operating markets, as well as the low base of last year, the Netherlands-based international division of Turkey’s Anadolu Efes said.

In Russia, EBI’s FY2009 sales volume was 10.7 mln hl, indicating a decline of 3.6% over the previous year.

Resulting from the global financial crisis, pressures on consumer demand in Russia continued in the last quarter of ...More Info


Japan: Asahi’s beer sales decline by 2.8% in 2009

Asahi Breweries said on January, 15 its total beer sales dropped last year by 2.8% to 2.24 mln kl (or 177.2 mln cases).

The company’s domestic beer sales totalled 1.53 mln kl, down 6.4% on 2008. Sales of happoshu (low-malt beer) declined by 13.4% to 319 thousand kl, whereas sales of malt-based new genre brews grew by 29.7% to 391 thousand kl.

In December 2009, Asahi’s beer sales showed a slight increase of 0.3% to 271 thousand kl as compared to the same month in 2008.

The brewer’s popular Clear Asahi brand continued to enjoy consumers’ demand in 2009 (+36.9 in the full year, and + 25.9% in December). Sales of Style Free beer increased by 3% in the full year and by 3.3% in December.


Turkey: Anadolu Efes domestic beer sales grow 0.5% in FY2009

Turkish brewer Anadolu Efes said on January, 14 its total beer sales volume in the year to December 31, 2009 fell by 1.9% to 22.1 mln hl.

The brewer’s fourth quarter total beer sales volume declined by 1.7%.

In FY2009, Anadolu Efes’ sales volume of its Turkey beer operations reached 8.5 mln hl, with 0.5% growth in domestic market compared to the previous year.

The company said domestic sales volume declined by 1.5% in the fourth quarter, in line with its expectations, due to the high base of previous year as well as the first time effect of smoking ban and inventory management.

Despite the macro economic challenges and higher prices to reflect excise tax increase in April, Turkey beer operations managed to grow its sales volume in 2009 over the previous year by the contribution of the initiatives to increase availability and visibility of beer in Turkey through effective marketing activities, Anadolu Efes said.

Anadolu Efes’ international beer operations are conducted by Efes Breweries International N.V.(“EBI”), incorporated in the Netherlands and listed on the London Stock Exchange. EBI is a 73.5% subsidiary of Anadolu Efes and currently manages 9 breweries and 4 malting plants in 4 countries. In addition EBI is the ...More Info


Netherlands & Mexico: Heineken to push its flagship brand through FEMSA’s distribution - CEO

Heineken NV, the brewer that agreed to buy Mexico’s second-largest beer producer, will increase its share in that market in part by pushing the flagship Heineken brand, Chief Executive Officer Jean-Francois van Boxmeer was quoted as saying by Bloomberg on January, 12.

“It has been submitted to a slight erosion and that pattern should be reversed,” Van Boxmeer said in an interview. “The brands are very strong.”

Amsterdam-based Heineken, which sells 25,000 hectolitres of its namesake brand annually in Mexico, agreed earlier this week to buy the beer unit of Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB in an all-stock transaction worth about $7.7 billion.

FEMSA Cerveza, the acquired unit, is second to Grupo Modelo SAB in the country. Its third-quarter market share fell to 42 percent from 44 percent a year earlier, while Modelo rose to 58 percent from 56 percent. FEMSA Cerveza sold 27.4 million hectolitres of beer in Mexico in 2008, the latest data available. It is also Brazil’s third-largest beer maker.

Heineken will use FEMSA Cerveza’s distribution to 350,000 outlets to push the Heineken brand, Boxmeer said. He declined to estimate sales growth for the Heineken brand in Mexico.

The company expects to achieve cost savings of 150 million euros ($217 million) over five ...More Info


Romania: Heineken to close one of its Romanian breweries

Dutch brewer Heineken announced earlier this week it would close its facility in Romania’s western province of Hateg, consolidating production in its four other breweries in the country, Brewers’ Guardian reported on January, 14.

“The decision to transfer production from Hateg Brewery to the company’s other breweries has been taken after a very thorough review of all options, with the interest of the whole company, and all its employees in mind,” said Heineken Romania general manager Jan Derck van Karnebeek.

Heineken has pledged to provide “substantial financial compensation” to the 98 workers facing unemployment as a consequence of the closure, as well as training and support in applying for available EU funds.

The plant plant was commissioned in 1978 and is home to Heineken’s Hategana brand, with excess capacity occasionally being used to produce the Bucegi and Golden Brau brands. Production will be taken over in the Miecurea Ciuc, Targa Mures, Craiova and Constanta plants.

Heineken’s Total Cost Management programme has resulted in a spate of brewery closures across Europe in recent months. Last September the axe fell on three Romanian malting plants.

Van Karnebeek added: “We are here to stay, to further invest in our business and brands ...More Info


Barley News

United Kingdom: Final barley production 2009 figure set at 6.77 mln tonnes

UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs released on January, 12 their final estimates of UK cereals and oilseeds production for 2009.

There has been only a minor alteration to the estimated barley area to put total production at 6.77 mln tonnes, 22 thousand tonnes higher than first estimates and 0.63 mln tonnes higher than 2008.

The average yield is unchanged at 5.8 t/ha, slightly lower than 6.0 t/ha in 2008, with the highest regional yield in Yorkshire and the Humber at 6.4 t/ha (previously estimated at 6.2 t/ha).

Scientific Digest

Flow Cytometry for Age Assessment of a Yeast Population and its Application in Beer Fermentations

Michal Kurec, Martin Baszczynski, Radek Lehnert, André Mota, José A. Teixeira and Tomáš Brányik

J. Inst. Brew. 115(3), 253–258, 2009 ABSTRACT
An expeditious method of yeast age estimation was developed based on selective bud scar staining (Alexa Fluor 488-labelled wheat-germ agglutinin) and subsequent fluorescence intensity measurement by flow cytometry. The calibration curve resulting from the cytometric determination of average bud scar fluorescence intensities vs. microscopically counted average bud scar numbers of the same cell populations showed a good correlation and allowed routine cell age estimation by flow cytometry. The developed method was applied for yeast age control in traditional batch and continuous beer fermentations. At the pitching rates used in industrial beer fermentations, our results support former findings by locating a gradient of increasing yeast age from the top to the bottom zone of the fermenter cone. The results also indicate that in continuous beer fermentation, the increasing bud scar fluorescence of immobilized cells could help to schedule the replacement of aged biomass, prior to loss of viability or deterioration of process performance and product quality. Key words: aging, beer, bud scar, flow cytometry, staining, yeast.
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Barley Prices
EURO = USD 1.4513 January 15, 2010  
 Crop year   2009   2010 
 Parity   FOB Creil   FOB Creil 
 Position   July 2009   July 2010 
Type   Variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  104.00  151.00  129.00  187.50 
2RS  Prestige  103.00  149.50  128.00  186.00 
2RS  Cellar  102.00  148.50  127.00  184.50 
2RS  Sebastien  101.00  146.50  126.00  183.00 
2RS  Tipple  101.00  146.50  126.00  183.00 
2RS  Henley  101.00  146.50  126.00  183.00 
6RW  Esterel   96.00  139.50  115.00  167.00 

French Feed Barley Prices. Nominal prices
EURO = USD 1.4513 January 15, 2010
Crop year 2009
Parity FOB Creil
Position July 2009
Type EURO USD
Feed Barley 95.00 137.87


Theoretical Malt Prices

  EURO = USD 1.4513 January 15, 2010 
Crop year  2009 
Parity  FOB Antwerp 
Position  Jan 2010 - Sept 2010 
Conditioning  Bulk   In bags  Bulk containers Bags, containers
Malting barley variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  288.50  418.50  319.50  463.50  312.00  452.50  326.00  473.00 
2RS  Prestige  287.00  416.50  318.50  462.00  310.50  450.50  325.00  471.50 
2RS  Cellar  286.00  414.50  317.00  460.00  309.50  449.00  323.50  469.50 
2RS  Sebastien  284.50  413.00  316.00  458.50  308.00  447.00  322.50  467.50 
2RS  Tipple  284.50  413.00  316.00  458.50  308.00  447.00  322.50  467.50 
2RS  Henley  284.50  413.00  316.00  458.50  308.00  447.00  322.50  467.50 
2RS   Average price  286.00  414.50  317.00  460.00  309.50  449.00  323.50  469.50 
6RW  Esterel   278.50  404.00  309.50  449.50  302.00  438.00  316.50  459.00 
Asia Malt 70/30  283.50  411.50  315.00  457.00  307.00  445.50  321.50  466.50 
**  Asia Malt 50/50  282.00  409.50  313.50  454.50  305.50  443.50  320.00  464.00 


EURO = USD 1.4513 January 15, 2010 
Crop year  2010 
Parity  FOB Antwerp 
Position  Oct 2010 - Sept 2011 
Conditioning  Bulk   In bags  Bulk containers Bags, containers
Malting barley variety  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD  EURO  USD 
2RS  Scarlett  317.50  461.00  349.00  506.50  341.50  495.00  355.50  516.00 
2RS  Prestige  316.50  459.50  347.50  504.50  340.00  493.50  354.50  514.00 
2RS  Cellar  315.50  457.50  346.50  502.50  339.00  491.50  353.00  512.50 
2RS  Sebastien  314.00  455.50  345.50  501.00  337.50  490.00  351.50  510.50 
2RS  Tipple  314.00  455.50  345.50  501.00  337.50  490.00  351.50  510.50 
2RS  Henley  314.00  455.50  345.50  501.00  337.50  490.00  351.50  510.50 
2RS   Average price  315.50  457.50  346.50  502.50  339.00  491.50  353.00  512.50 
6RW  Esterel   300.50  436.00  331.50  481.50  324.00  470.00  338.50  491.00 
Asia Malt 70/30  311.00  451.00  342.00  496.50  334.50  485.00  348.50  506.00 
**  Asia Malt 50/50  308.00  446.50  339.00  492.00  331.50  481.00  345.50  501.50 

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

Prices Evolution

Prices evolution

Table of the Week

Czech Hops Production and Acreage 2000 - 2009
  Production (t)
Variety/Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Saaz 4532 6269 5992 4959 5407 6816 4718 4563 5563 5395
Sladek 168 153 217 256 195 471 364 488 549 568
Premiant 124 153 194 273 151 366 245 424 479 484
Bor 19 26 17 16 17 29 14 5 11 7
Agnus - - 6 16 52 125 87 120 114 124
Rest 22 20 16 6 16 24 27 30 37 38
Total 4865 6621 6442 5526 5838 7831 5453 5631 6753 6616
  Acreage (ha)
Variety/Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Saaz 5913 5860 5639 5574 5519 5231 4926 4840 4748 4627
Sladek 82 92 152 163 378 202 222 215 239 275
Premiant 70 88 141 149 305 153 181 249 267 293
Bor 17 19 19 18 20 17 17 10 13 13
Agnus - - 3 19 69 52 51 51 51 58
Rest 13 16 13 19 21 17 17 24 26 39
Total 6095 6075 5967 5942 6311 5672 5414 5389 5344 5305
Source: Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic
Graph of the Week


Source: FAS USDA

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