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