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Russia’s biggest beer maker Baltika Breweries announced on January, 11 that it has licensed the right to use its trademarks Baltika and Nevskoe to Derbes, a Kazakh subsidiary of Carlsberg Group.
The license was granted until 2029 for a fixed fee of €90 million.
Furthermore, Derbes must make quarterly royalty payments of 4.5% of their net profits from any production and sales of beer under the above trademarks.
Carlsberg, the owning company of Baltika and Derbes, is considering a reorganisation in order to unite Derbes Brewery and Baltika’s Kazakh division Baltika-Almaty.
13 January, 2010
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