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July 20 - July 22, 2015
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Canada: Craft beer category sees major growth across Canada
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Canada: Barley production to decline in 2015-16 to all-time record low of 6.9 mln tonnes
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USA, ID: Malt barley drives economic growth in Idaho
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USA, NY: Ithaca Beer Co. increases production by 30 percent with the recent expansion
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USA, AL: Fairhope Brewing expands its brewing capacity
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USA, CA: Lengthwise Brewing to move to a new location in Bakersfield in spring
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USA, CA: EDH Brewing Co. to launch a brewery in El Dorado Hills by the end of summer
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Belgium & USA: Breweries Duvel Moortgat and Firestone Walker Brewing Co. to combine operations
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USA, ME: Fore River Brewing to launch in South Portland in October
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USA, NM: Boese Brothers Brewery to launch in Albuquerque in August
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World: Global beer output falls by 11.8 mln hl in 2014
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UK: Bairds Malt revenue declines due to continuing downward trend in beer consumption
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China: Barley imports in July-May 2014/15 amount to 7.376 mln tonnes
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Germany: Winter barley crop seen lower this year, spring barley compares to 2014
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France & Germany: Vivescia agrees to purchase malting barley trader Interbrau GmbH
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World: SABMiller could attract larger AB InBev bid if it sells its stake in MillerCoors - analysts
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Russia & Belarus: Baltika Breweries to buy almost 27 thousand tonnes of Belarusian malt this year
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New Zealand & Brazil: New Zealand’s craft brewer Moa celebrating increase in shipments to Brazil
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Scientific Digest
So what is the difference between seeded and unseeded hops?
ABSTRACT
Most of the hops available today are unseeded. However in the UK you will still find male hop plants in the hop gardens. Brewers would like to know if the presence of seeds in hops has an impact on brewing characteristics (for the good or bad). This German team of researchers have now found that neither foam characteristics nor the hop oil composition was affected in brewing trials comparing seeded and unseeded hops, but what proved to be different was the beta-glucosidase activity (higher with unseeded hops). This might eventually have an impact on the aroma development overtime with the release of bound aroma compounds in the finished beers.
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1837 - Opening of London's first major railway station - at Euston
1868 - 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1903 - The Ford Motor Company ships its first car
1992 - Charles Schwab opens its "mutual fund supermarket," allowing investors to choose from hundreds of different funds without paying transaction fees, as it introduces its OneSource program
21 July
1955 - Ian Donald made his first investigation of the use of ultrasound in medical diagnosis
1969 - Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon
2011 - NASA's Space Shuttle program
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1872 - Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio
1961 - 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA
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Canada: Craft beer category sees major growth across Canada
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When reaching for a cold one, more Canadians are turning to craft beers, a category that has seen major growth across the country, The
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Canada: Barley production to decline in 2015-16 to all-time record low of 6.9 mln tonnes
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For 2014-15, Canada’s barley exports are forecast to decrease slightly due to the decline in total barley supply, below normal quality and a strong
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USA, ID: Malt barley drives economic growth in Idaho
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According to the Idaho Farm Bureau Association, Idaho ranks first nationally in barley production. Alan Slater, director of Anheuser-Busch’s North American barley operations, estimated that half of the company’s U.S. malting barley comes from Idaho, Rexburg Standard Journal reported on July 18.
Many of Idaho’s barley growers attended Anheuser-Busch’s Barley Grower Day on July 14, where growers were invited to enjoy a free lunch, tour the malt facility and learn about new technology.
“The reason we’re all here is because of quality,” Slater said.
Director of Global Barley Research Gary Hanning said there is a large yield benefit in Idaho.
Between eastern and southern Idaho, Slater guessed there are around 400-450 Anheuser-Busch’s barley growers.
“We have a big investment in this region,” said Lee Keathley, Anheuser-Busch’s Vice President of Procurement.
Keathley said about 40 percent of the company’s barley needs come out of this region.
Adam Griffith, Anheuser-Busch’s global director of raw materials, emphasized this area’s importance for the company.
“This area is so key to us, not just in the U.S.,” Griffith said. “This region is just born to breed barley.”
“While there are some farmers who choose not to grow barley for the beer industry, they are a small minority,” Slater said.
Sixty-seven percent of barley in Idaho
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USA, NY: Ithaca Beer Co. increases production by 30 percent with the recent expansion
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With a new era of growth at Ithaca Beer Co., a groundbreaking ceremony was held on July 16, Ithaca Journal reported the same day.
Ithaca Beer Co. broke ground on a 24,000-square-foot expansion in a ceremony attended by members of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, Tompkins County Area Development, Ithaca Tourism and state Sen. Barbara Lifton, D-Ithaca, capping off a year where Ithaca Beer Co. has seen a 30 percent increase in production.
The $2.6 million expansion (not including equipment costs) more than doubles the space the brewery gained in its 2012 expansion.
“We realized we were running out of space very quickly with the level of growth we were having,” founder Dan Mitchell said. “So two years ago, we set up the expansion we needed and how to go about it. “
The expansion’s main purpose is to increase the beer maker’s production and shipping capacities. The space will house new bottling lines and keg lines as well as provide space for offices, storage, maintenance, and barrel aging — an asset Mitchell said the company had been looking into.
The expansion, according to a news release, will allow the company to produce and ship up to 90,000 barrels a year, up from 24,000
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USA, AL: Fairhope Brewing expands its brewing capacity
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Fairhope Brewing Company has provided a look at their recent expansion that has vastly increased its capacity, AL.com reported on July 16.
Managing partners Brian Kane and Brewer Tim Heath explained the workings of the new equipment. The massive new stainless steel tanks and bottling equipment are at the heart of plans to grow the two-and-a-half-year-old brewery far beyond the limits of its start-up phase.
"We can produce as much beer over here in one day as we could do next door in a month," said Kane.
The company's original system, still a prominent presence in the taproom, generated 10-barrel batches. The new one is a 30-barrel system, but it represents no mere tripling of capacity. The output of the three 30-barrel brewing tanks can be directed to any of five 60-barrel fermentation tanks, and provisions have been made to add five more in the future.
Heath said that while the new system is bigger, it also features more automation. That's certainly not true of the bottling line. It consists of two small workstations at which bottles are washed, filled, capped and labelled, a case at a time.
Kane said that Fairhope Brewing's previous production was in the range of 600 to 700 barrels per
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USA, CA: Lengthwise Brewing to move to a new location in Bakersfield in spring
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Jeff Williams, co-owner of Bakersfield’s only currently operating brewery, confirmed on July 17 that the company has signed a lease on a new location for Lengthwise Brewing’s operations, The Bakersfield Californian reported on July 17.
Lengthwise Brewing will move from its 6,000-square-foot brew-pub at 6720 Schirra Ct. in Bakersfield, to a new home less than a mile away at 7700 District Blvd.
Baymarr Constructors will build a new, 15,000-square-foot “concrete tilt up” brewery and restaurant for Lengthwise Brewing on the new location, Williams explained in an email. The new facility is expected to open in April or May of 2016, Williams wrote.
“We are in the planning, design and permit phase now,” Williams wrote. The new space will have air conditioning and “tons of brewery space for expanding our barrel aged beer program and adding a few new tanks.”
Lengthwise Brewing has operated from the Schirra Court location since 2002.
Lengthwise Brewing added two additional restaurant locations in 2011 and 2012 and began bottling its beers in early 2014.
In May, Lengthwise Brewing began distributing bottles and kegs outside Kern County.
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USA, VA: Woodstock Brewhouse opens in Woodstock
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Woodstock Brewhouse has been open for a week but the new it is already a hot spot, WHSV reported on July 19.
"We've been pretty busy this first week and it looks like, from what we can tell, we'll be brewing once a week over the next period of four weeks," said Matthew Klus, a partner of the Woodstock Brewhouse.
The brewery is the first of its kind in Woodstock and is a partnership between Klus and several other people who all had an interest in the art of craft beer.
"There are a lot of wineries around here and we figured this would be just a nice place to hang out and also grab a meal," Klus said.
To make the Woodstock Brewhouse’s seven beers, there is a 10 barrel brewing system that involves several steps.
While the brewery is new, the building is not. It used to be a jean factory during World War II.
“Support from the community has been great and hopefully it will continue so they can keep business brewing,” said Klus.
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USA, CA: EDH Brewing Co. to launch a brewery in El Dorado Hills by the end of summer
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EDH Brewing Co. is expected to open at 875 Embarcadero Drive in El Dorado Hills by the end of summer, according to owner Dennis Dovala, Sacramento Business Journal reported on July 17.
The 1,500-square-foot business will serve beer and wine. Dovala, who lives in El Dorado Hills and is an avid home-brewer said he'd like to establish the area as a hub for craft beer in El Dorado Hills. "That would be the dream," Dovala said.
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Belgium & USA: Breweries Duvel Moortgat and Firestone Walker Brewing Co. to combine operations
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Duvel Moortgat and Firestone Walker Brewing Co. will combine their U.S. operations, USA Today reported on July 17.
“Many breweries team up to make collaboration beers, but Duvel Moortgat and Firestone Walker Brewing are making a full-scale, long-term collaboration by combining, but not integrating their organizations,” Duvel Moortgat USA president Simon Thorpe said in a statement accompanying the announcement.
Paso Robles-based Firestone Walker Brewing will continue to make its own beers and operate independently under founders David Walker and Adam Firestone. The companies signed an agreement earlier this week and the transaction is expected to close later this year. Both firms are privately-owned; no financial details were disclosed.
"The Firestone Walker Brewing and Duvel Moortgat families have combined forces to broaden their capacity and scope as brewers," said Duvel Moortgat and Firestone Walker Brewing in a joint statement. "Long admirers of each other's beers, culture and breweries, the two teams saw the perfect fit for an alliance. The partnership will allow Firestone Walker Brewing to develop our capacity across the US in a conservative and thoughtful way by consummating a lifelong tie with this family-owned international craft brewer, who continues their commitment to participating in the American Craft Revolution."
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USA, ME: Fore River Brewing to launch in South Portland in October
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Alex Anastasoff, John LeGassey, and T.J. Hansen will soon join the robust ranks of microbrewers in Southern Maine with their new brewery - Fore River Brewing Co. - located at 45 Huntress Ave. in South Portland, Bangor Daily News reported on July 17.
The large barn-like space near the northern end of Main Street in South Portland is still under construction.
Anastasoff owns the property and used to store up to 1,600 tons of salt during the winter. After selling his business and repurposing the space, the garage will eventually serve as the brewing area, he said.
“The intention is to create an open, relaxing tasting room with visual access to the brewing facilities,” LeGassey said.
When the idea of opening a brewery first began taking shape, South Portland stood out prominently due to its almost complete lack of breweries.
“With how much is going on in Portland,” Anastasoff said, “building a brewery in South Portland is long overdue.”
“In addition to South Portland, Fore River Brewing will focus on distributing in Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough, communities that are “neglected” in the beer market,” Anastasoff mentioned.
As they get their footing with the operation, LeGassey anticipates room for growth and flexibility. “We want our selection to
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USA, NM: Boese Brothers Brewery to launch in Albuquerque in August
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Partners George and Sam Boese are finally prepared to begin production in their new downtown brewery, Boese Brothers Brewery, that should open by August, Albuquerque Journal reported on July 18.
The brewery received its certificate of occupancy last week, and George Boese said the crew should start the beer-making process on its new 15-barrel brewing system in the next few days.
Though no official opening date has been set, the goal is to open in August.
The brothers, raised in Roswell, have spent more than six months readying their new place — an old brick building at 6th and Gold SW in New Mexico, that was most recently used as a parking garage.
George Boese said most of the available properties that fit their size requirements were around the Brewery District, but were more industrial than what they wanted.
“We kind of completely switched our search,” Boese said. “We found this building that was a real fixer-upper but kind of perfect as far as what we were looking for.”
George Boese, an Air Force Academy graduate, has previously worked for Santa Fe Brewing Co. but said Sam has more commercial brewing experience both in and outside of New Mexico and will steer the production effort
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USA & UK: Alltech purchases two UK brewers
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Alltech, the Nicholasville, Kentucky-based global nutritional giant, announced on July 16 a major expansion of its brewery division into the European market, Business Lexington reported.
The company said it had purchased The Station Works Brewery in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, and Cumberland Breweries Ltd. in Great Corby, Cumbria, England. Officials said it is the first major expansion of Alltech’s brewing division outside the U.S.
“We want to be one of the top 50 craft brewers in the world,” Alltech founder and CEO Pease Lyons, who was born in Ireland, said in a statement announcing the acquisitions.
Alltech’s main business is related to animal nutrition and, increasingly, farm and livestock management. But the company has leveraged the company’s bedrock knowledge and expertise working with yeast, a main component of its feed products, into a leading role in the burgeoning craft brewing and distilling scenes.
Alltech produces a variety of beer and spirits, including Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale and Town Branch Bourbon. With the new purchases come several new labels, including Finn Lager and Foxes Rock Ale.
“These new purchases will allow us to develop already established European brands while at the same time introducing our Kentucky Ale range to new markets,” said Lyons.
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World: Global beer output falls by 11.8 mln hl in 2014
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Beer production in 2014 fell by 11.8 mln hl, or -0.6 %, worldwide compared with output volume in 2013. This result was influenced by
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UK: Bairds Malt revenue declines due to continuing downward trend in beer consumption
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The "continuing downward trend in beer consumption" in the UK and Europe has contributed to a fall in revenues at Essex-headquartered Bairds Malt, Insider
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UK: Beer sales value increases in 2014 thanks to popularity of craft beer
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The success of the craft beer industry in the U.S. is starting to be repeated across the Atlantic, Bloomberg reported on July 21.
The value
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China: Barley imports in July-May 2014/15 amount to 7.376 mln tonnes
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China’s customs-clearance of barley in May was for 726,000 tons, the total of 11 months in 2014/15 now amounts to 7.376 mln tons, of
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Germany: Winter barley crop seen lower this year, spring barley compares to 2014
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DRV, the German Raiffeisen Association, expects a barley crop of 8.6 mln tons of winter barley, Coceral 8.2 mln tons, which is well below
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France & Germany: Vivescia agrees to purchase malting barley trader Interbrau GmbH
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The French Vivescia Group announced on July 16 it has entered into an agreement with the Swiss company Ameropa AG in view of acquiring its subsidiary Interbrau GmbH, based in Hamburg.
Interbrau is a world leader in international malting barley trading and logistics.
The agreement evidences the ambition of Vivescia — a cooperative group specialized in cereal grains — to play a major role in the barley value chain, internationally, and in particular to respond to growing demand on the part of its brewer and distiller customers.
The Managing Director of Vivescia, Alain Le Floch, recalls that malting barley trading is a growth market worldwide and that Europe, the largest barley producing and exporting region, is expected to grow in importance.
“Vivescia is among the major players in malting-barley origination in France and numbers among the world’s leaders in the malt industry. The acquisition of Interbrau would enable Vivescia to take advantage of the opening of barley markets internationally, increase its own malting barley production, and broaden its offering to its customers in the barley-malt-beer value chain.”
Alain Le Floch adds “The acquisition of Interbrau would open the possibility of promising synergies between barley trading and origination. Vivescia knows barley production and is familiar
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World: SABMiller could attract larger AB InBev bid if it sells its stake in MillerCoors - analysts
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In the flurry of speculation over a possible acquisition of beer giant SABMiller by fellow brewing behemoth Anheuser-Busch InBev, many analysts assumed AB InBev would have to sell SABMiller’s stake in MillerCoors to make the deal palatable to regulators, St. Louis Business Journal posted on July 21.
But not if SABMiller beats them to the punch.
That idea was recently put forth by Harry Schuhmacher of Beer Business Daily. In a recent note, long time beverage industry analyst Caroline Levy of investment banking firm CLSA describes the idea of a pre-emptive sell-off of MillerCoors by SABMiller as “interesting” and writes that it could help the brewer negotiate a better price for itself if AB InBev ever does come calling with an offer.
SABMiller owns a 58 percent stake in MillerCoors, the second biggest beer player in the U.S. market. A tie up with AB InBev, owner of the Budweiser brands, would combine the two largest U.S. players, which is why common wisdom has held that SABMiller’s stake in MillerCoors would have to be sold.
But as Levy describes Schuhmacher’s thinking, if SABMillers sells its stake on its own, "it would have better leverage to negotiate an attractive price than in the forced sale that
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Russia & Belarus: Baltika Breweries to buy almost 27 thousand tonnes of Belarusian malt this year
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Russia’s Baltika Breweries intends to purchase almost 27 thousand tonnes of Belarus-made malt, naviny.by reported on July 21.
Last year, the largest Russian beer maker
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India: A brief outlook of India’s craft breweries
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India's first microbrewery, Doolally, opened in Pune in 2009. In its wake, it brought a slew of small-scale Indian craft beers to Mumbai, Bangalore and Gurgaon; everything from the traditional stout, IPA, porter etc. to more unusual varieties. And although the craft beer industry is still rather nascent, there's already a barrage of microbreweries offering the perfect quaff, NDTV Food reported on July 20.
Thirsty Mumbai residents were long used to making the drive to Pune for a taste of Doolally's craft beer. No more. In the last two years, a flood of microbreweries have contributed to raising the city's spirits, the very first one being The Barking Deer, a brewpub that launched in 2015 in Lower Parel. The first taste of craft beer this city had was the Barking Deer's robust India Pale Ale; the more gentle-flavoured wheat beer, Bombay Blonde; and the broodier, heavier Flying Pig Belgian Wit. Their long list of other beers from around the world is equally compelling.
Not very far away from it, The White Owl's microbrewery serves up its own home brews – the caramel-flavoured, light Diablo; Halcyon, a wheat beer; the robust Shadow; and the boldest, bitterest brew, an American Pale Ale called Torpedo.
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New Zealand & Brazil: New Zealand’s craft brewer Moa celebrating increase in shipments to Brazil
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A former AC Milan footballer is helping Brazil become a major growth market for New Zealand craft beer brewer Moa, Stuff.co.nz reported on July 19.
Moa has traditionally focused on New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Asian markets but Brazil has become a star performer for New Zealand's only NZX-listed brewer.
Moa chief executive Geoff Ross said so far seven shipping containers carrying 200,000 bottles of Moa have been exported to Brazil.
Moa's first exported to Brazil in 2012 but demand was now gathering pace with four containers sent since May.
And the firm can thank former AC Milan footballer Marconi Albuquerque for the sales growth in what is South America's most populous country.
Albuquerque's company, Oceania Group, acts as the Brazilian distributor for Moa.
"He's hiring some young sales guys to hit the streets and he's getting some good wins," Ross said.
Ross said Albuquerque was well connected and well funded.
It was almost bemusing when the first container was sent to Brazil, he said.
"But when it turned into seven containers it got our attention and we realized it was a proper distribution relationship."
Moa had granted Albuquerque the rights to trade as Moa Brazil giving him greater credibility when selling to customers, Ross said.
Albuquerque said he
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China: Heineken UK’s marketing director promoted to the post of managing director of Heineken China
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Heineken has promoted UK marketing director Jacco van der Linden to the post of managing director of Heineken in China, Marketing Magazine reported on July 17.
Van der Linden will take on his new role from mid-August. Heineken said that a successor to handle UK marketing would be announced in due course.
The Dutch national took up the UK marketing role in January 2012, having been marketing director and executive member of the board of directors at Heineken's Nigerian Breweries. He joined Heineken in 1999 and held various roles in sales and marketing.
David Forde, Heineken’s UK managing director, said: "We are delighted for Jacco and wish him well in this exciting new role.
"His appointment is a reflection of his achievements over the last three-and-a-half years, and contribution to the wider success of our UK business.
"Under his marketing leadership, Heineken has strengthened its UK cider and beer portfolios, significantly increased our innovation programme and transformed our customer marketing organisation."
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World: SABMiller working on PET bottle that can increase beer shelf life
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Since September 2012, beer maker SABMiller has engaged with Trinity College Dublin to pursue research on a new type of PET bottle that can increase the shelf life of beer and keep it ‘fresh’, CCFGroup.com reported on July 21.
Although the technology is being developed, the brewer believes commercialization will take another five years.
Further, the brewer has also roped in CRANN – a nanoscience institute at the university to develop a new nanomaterial. The nanomaterial can stop oxygen ingress and the escape of CO2 which can prolong the shelf life of beer in plastic bottles.
When this nanomaterial is added to plastic bottles, it makes them more impervious. This also aids in cost saving in terms of quantity of material required for manufacturing, and reduces the environmental impact of PET bottles.
PET bottles for beer has been well received by customers due to its ease of use, lightweight and reclosable.
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