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Change trend

21 August - 23 August 2006
Crop 2005
2rs Barley €116.0-118.0   
6rw Barley €104.0-106.0   
2rs Malt €256.0-258.0   
6rw Malt €241.0-242.0   
Crop 2006
2rs Barley €128.0-130.0   
6rw Barley €110.0-112.0   
2rs Malt €264.5-266.5   
6rw Malt €241.5-243.5   

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1 EUR = 2.7431 BRL
1 EUR = 34.3533 RUB
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1 USD = 1.312 AUD
1 USD = 116.26 JPY
1 USD = 2.1352 BRL
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Equities of the Largest Breweries

Top Industry News
USA: Craft beer sales jump into double digits, 1H 2006 sales up 11%... Click here

Finland: Beer sales stagnated at 2,105 million hl, sales of non-alcoholic beverages increased by 32,000 hl... Click here

Czech Republic: Pivovar Ostravar to start shipping beer to Italy... Click here

Mexico: Grupo Modelo SA to distribute China's Tsingtao beer in Mexico... Click here

UK: Diageo sold Guinness Brewery site to property developer... Click here

EU: Barley export licences stand at 47,000 t against 713,000 t year-on-year... Click here

Australia: ABB Grain Ltd reviewed gross barley pool estimates for 2005/06 and increased by AU$5/tonne its malting barley pool estimates... Click here

USA: 2006 barley balance sheet cut by 7 million bushels to 183 million bushels... Click here

USA & EU: European hop growers are uncertain about hops' alpha content, draught affects less American hops because of drip irrigation... Click here

More News
USA: Procermex Inc., the U.S. arm of Grupo Modelo, shuts corporate headquarters in San Antonio and merges with Chicago-based Constellation Brands, Gambrinus Co. out of picture ... More Info

Sierra Leone: Heineken-owned Sierra Leone Brewery Limited recorded a net loss of SLL 3.7 billion in 2005 against a net loss of SLL6.8 billion year-on-year ... More Info

World: Barley intervention stocks to 13/08/06 give a theoretical net position of 1.49 million t ... More Info

Kenya: East African Breweries Limited (EABL) used cross listing to improve the acceptability of its products across the region ... More Info

Mexico: Grupo Modelo SA to appeal antitrust ruling against exclusivity contracts ... More Info

Canada: Big Rock Brewery Income Trust announces monthly distribution ... More Info

Ukraine: 987,000 tons of new crop barley were contracted for export ... More Info

India: SABMiller ready to compete with UB Breweries to be the most respected brewer in India ... More Info

UK: Scottish & Newcastle launches Foster’s Twist with £6 million campaign ... More Info

China & Australia: Barley purchases continued with 150,000 t in 14 days, prices expected to upgrade ... More Info

Ukraine: Export barley prices range within UAH/t 560-610 CPT, barley market populated by more export operators ... More Info

Mexico: Fomento Economico Mexicano SA (Femsa) enters ready-to-drink spirit market ... More Info

UK: Barley yields range from 5 to 7.5 t per hectare fom more than 50% of the cut harvest ... More Info

Nigeria: Sona Breweries Plc to earn US$3 million from export of Maltonic brand ... More Info

USA: Governor of Ithaca, New York, allows brewers to give drinks free samples to those 21 and under ... More Info

Denmark: Carlsberg to strike £32 million 4-year sponsorship deal with England team ... More Info

Japan: Suntory beer sales dropped 8% in 2005, brewer turns to low-alcohol fruit cocktails ... More Info

USA: Miller Brewing to reposition Icehouse beer trough online ads ... More Info

Slovak Republic: Pivovar Popper Brewery output increased by 1.5% to SKK 103.9 million ... More Info

China & Germany: Filling and packaging group KHS to enter Chinese market ... More Info

UK: Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries reached £1 million sponsorship agreement with England cricket team ... More Info

Thailand: Boonrawd Brewery Co. expects economy to pick up after general elections ... More Info

UK: Shepherd Neame acquired Plough and Horses pub in Hampshire ... More Info


Brewery News

2 USA: Craft beer sales jump into double digits, 1H 2006 sales up 11%

The Brewers Association reported August 22 that the volume of craft beer sold in the first half of 2006 rose 11 percent compared to ...
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2 Finland: Beer sales stagnated at 2,105 million hl, sales of non-alcoholic beverages increased by 32,000 hl

Beer sales in Finland during the first half of the year remained at the same level as in the previous year - a total ...
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0 Czech Republic: Pivovar Ostravar to start shipping beer to Italy

Pivovary Staropramen-owned Pivovar Ostravar is to emerge Italy as the second EU export market, after the brewery started exporting beer in UK in late 2004, selling its beers in more than 1,000 outlets.

Pivovar Ostravar has an annual capacity of 500,000 hl of beer and is located in northern Moravia

The brewery is based in Ostravar, northern Moravia, and produces around 500,000 hectolitres of beer a year. InBev-owned Pivovar Staropramen controls nearly 14% of the Czech beer market and competes on the domestic market with Plzensky Prazdroj which has the largest beer sales in the Czech Republic and exports beer to almost 50 countries all over the world.


2 Mexico: Grupo Modelo SA to distribute China's Tsingtao beer in Mexico

Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo SA said August 18 that it plans to start distributing China's Tsingtao beer in Mexico by the end of the ...
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0 UK: Diageo sold Guinness Brewery site to property developer

The former Guinness Brewery in London has been bought by property developer Brixton Plc for 47 million pounds and will be converted into industrial units and warehousing, The Scotsman learned August 21 from Brixton Plc.

Brixton is buying the Park Royal site in northwest London from Diageo and plans to develop more than 500,000 sq ft of commercial space from 2007.

"This is just the type of scheme that Brixton has been looking to re-invest into post the 500 million pounds of sales earlier this year," said Brixton Chief Executive Tim Wheeler.

Brixton sold 84 properties to Dunedin Property Ltd for 460 million pounds in May.

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of alcohol beverage brands across spirits, wine and beer categories. These brands include: Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Baileys, J&B, Captain Morgan, Cuervo, Tanqueray, Crown Royal and Beaulieu Vineyard and Sterling Vineyards wines.

Barley News

2 EU: Barley export licences stand at 47,000 t against 713,000 t year-on-year

Total barley free market refunds granted for 2006/07 campaign are zero, the AgriNews Feedgrain Report of August 17 stressed. Total intervention sales equate zero. ...
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0 Australia: ABB Grain Ltd reviewed gross barley pool estimates for 2005/06 and increased by AU$5/tonne its malting barley pool estimates

ABB Grain Ltd has reviewed its gross barley pool indicators for 2005/2006 and has increased by AU$5/tonne its malting barley estimates, and has also increased its estimates for new season (2006/2007) malting and feed barley, the company announced August 22.

ABB Grain’s General Manager Marketing, Nigel Officer, said extremely hot and dry conditions in Europe and North America, besides a continuing “major uncertainty” about the forthcoming Australian barley crop, had led to the increase in estimated pool returns.

“It’s been an extremely hot and dry summer in Europe, and the consequent increase in barley prices and malt prices has pushed competitor values in China, our major destination for malting barley, higher,” Mr Officer said. “Freight rates also remain high and this has added to our competitive position as the spread in freight rates between EU and Australia has widened.

“Meanwhile, the Canadian harvest has only recently begun, but their crop has been reduced to an estimate of less than 10 million tonnes – down from an earlier forecast of 11.3 million tonnes. It’s expected that significant volumes of Canadian barley will now go over the border to the U.S, which has had its smallest barley crop since 1936. This in turn means less ...
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0 USA: 2006 barley balance sheet cut by 7 million bushels to 183 million bushels

Local barley prices ranged from unchanged to ten cents lower the week ended August 20, Idaho Barley Commission released August 17.

USDA reported barley exports of 0.5 thousand metric tons for Mexico. No sales were reported for the week.

USDA made a few adjustments to the U.S. barley balance sheet this month: they cut 2006 production by 7 million bushels (152.407 t) to 183 million bushels (3.9 million t), lowered domestic feed usage by 5 million bushels (108,862 t) to 40 million bushels (870,900 t) and cut U.S. ending stocks by 2 million bushels (45,540 t) to 96 million bushels (2.09 million t). World barley production was cut by 0.7 million metric tons this month due to smaller crops in the U.S., Canada and E.U., partially offset by a larger crop in the Ukraine.

World barley production is projected to increase by 4% to 142.9 million t, with consumption outpacing production for the second consecutive year. US production is pegged to decline 14% to 3.98 million t.

World barley supplies are estimated to decline slightly to 171.2 million t, while US supplies are now pegged to decline 14% to 6.3 million t.

World barley trade is expected to fall 4% to 17.4. ...
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Hops News

2 USA & EU: European hop growers are uncertain about hops' alpha content, draught affects less American hops because of drip irrigation

The latter half of July brought with it above average temperatures on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, this slowed ...
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Scientific Digest
Towards understanding the genetic basis of adaptation to low rainfall environments

Jason K. Eglinton1,
Michael Baum2,
Stefania Grando2,
Salvatore Ceccarelli2,
Andrew R. Barr1.
1 Department of Plant Science, Waite Campus, The University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, South Australia, 5064.
2 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), PO Box 5446, Aleppo, Syria.

ABSTRACT
Water deficit is one of the most important constraints to cereal production in the Mediterranean-type dryland cropping environments of the world. The present project aims to identify and develop barley with improved adaptation to low rainfall environments, and to develop molecular markers for key traits associated with drought stress tolerance. While markers for these traits will find application within current breeding germplasm, this work also targets the identification of novel alleles from wild and landrace barley.

A population was developed from a cross between a Syrian landrace barley and an improved ICARDA line. The two parental lines are well adapted to low rainfall conditions, exhibit similar maturity, and also represent significant genetic diversity. In 1999/2000, this population was evaluated at two low rainfall sites in Syria and four sites in Jordan. The sites experienced significant drought stress and a number of lines out-yielded the parental lines and well adapted local varieties, and the differences in yield were not associated with maturity effects. A range of traits associated with performance under drought stress were measured including growth habit, early vigor, tiller number, leaf chlorophyll content, plant height, days to heading, biomass, kernel weight, grain yield and harvest index. A molecular map has been constructed with 247 molecular markers (73 SSR, 174 AFLP) used to genotype 94 RIL’s from this population.

Tolerance to drought stress has been a difficult trait to characterise and quantify, and our current understanding is largely based upon comparative physiology. The application of molecular genetics strategies in conjunction with physiology and field evaluation promises to deliver significant advances in both our understanding of stress tolerance, and our ability to positively select for stress tolerance in crop improvement.
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** - 50/50 = 50% Average two Rows Spring and 50% Six Rows Winter

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Table of the week

The Top 40 brewery groups in the world as of 31 December 2005

Graph of the week
EU Malt Export Licence Fixation

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Agenda
August 2006:
GBBF Great British Beer Festival
IHGC Hop tour
10th International Berlin Beer Festival 2006
Toronto’s Festival of Beer is Canada’s premier beer festival
Agrokomplex 2006 , Slovakia. International Fair of Agriculture and Food Industry
Midwest Specialty Grains Conference, Minneapolis.
Bank Holiday Weekend and International Beer Festival , UK.
Northern Crops Institute Course 2006 Barley Malt Quality Evaluation


September 2006:
8th BELGIAN BEER WEEKEND The Belgian Brewers’ association
World of Food China - 2006. International Exhibition and Conference for the Food
Beverages - 2006,Belgorod, Russia.Specialized exhibition.
CHINA BREW & BEVERAGE International Brew and Beverage Processing Technology and Equipment
International Brewery and Soft Drinks Industry Exhibition
Riga Food 2006.
The Great Canadian Beer Festival
2nd Bruxellensis Festival
Jean De Clerck Chair XII: Flavours in Beer , a post academic training
Fine Food Australia. Australia's largest exhibition for the food and beverage industry...
TecnoBebida Latin America International Exhibition of Technologies for the Beverage Industry
EXPO Food & Drinks - 2006, Armenia. The 4th Interhational specialized exhibition.
AtyrauFood - 2006, Kazakhstan.5-th North-Caspian Regional Exhibition
Munich Oktoberfest.The world's biggest beer festival.
World Grains Summit: Foods and Beverages San Francisco, California U.S.A.
International Beer Competition 2006 Japan.
FoodWeek Uzbekistan - 2006.11th Annual International Exhibition of Food and Drinks.
Northern Crops Institute Course 2006 Grain Procurement Management for Importers
World Food Moscow - 2006.The 15th International exhibition "All world of food".
The 15 AllUkrainiane forum of food-processing industry - 2006.
Great American Beer Festival® September 28 - 30, 2006.
Farmer of Kazakhstan - 2006.The 4th Kazakhstan international exhibition.


October 2006:
International Beer Summit 2006, Japan.
World Beer Festival, USA
Food And Beverages, Novi Sad Fair, Serbia & Montenegro.
MBAA Brewing and Malting Science Course
Lighthouse International Beer Festival, USA.
Belgian Beer Festival. website:www.beerfestival.be
Belgian Beer Fest - Sunday Brunch, USA.
World Food Ukraine / Ingredients Ukraine International Food and Drinks Exhibition


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