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on 15-May-2009

1 EUR = 1.3589 USD
1 EUR = 0.8971 GBP
1 EUR = 1.5952 CAD
1 EUR = 1.8025 AUD
1 EUR = 129.829 JPY
1 EUR = 2.8674 BRL
1 EUR = 43.8304 RUB
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1 USD = 0.6601 GBP
1 USD = 1.1739 CAD
1 USD = 1.3264 AUD
1 USD = 95.5292 JPY
1 USD = 2.1101 BRL
1 USD = 32.2539 RUB
1 USD = 6.8337 CNY
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Equities of the Largest Breweries

Equities of the Largest Breweries

Average Market Prices Change trend

May 15, 2009

Type Crop 2008 Crop 2009
2rs Barley EUR102.0-106.0 EUR144.0-148.0 2.82%
6rw Barley EUR99.0-103.0 EUR132.0-136.0 3.88%
2rs Malt EUR314.5-318.5 EUR357.5-361.5 1.41%
6rw Malt EUR310.0-314.0 EUR342.0-346.0 1.93%
Feed Barley EUR99.0-103.0 4.12% 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.


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World: SABMiller reports results for the year ended March 31 ...Click here
CIS: Efes Breweries International says consolidated sales volume slightly decreased in Q1 2009 ...Click here
Denmark: Carlsberg to cut more costs that expected, but not so ‘brutally’ as AB InBev ...Click here
Mexico: Femsa to cut costs, put on hold investments and see a small dip in the current quarter - CEO ...Click here
Germany: Consumers turn to a relative newcomer Oettinger, analysts forecast another good month for beer sales ...Click here
Australia: Foster’s completes purchase of a stake in Fiji and Samoa brewing operations ...Click here
Poland: SABMiller acquires full ownership of its Polish brewing subsidiary ...Click here
South Africa: South African Breweries Ltd reports a 2% drop in lager sales in the twelve months to end March 2009 ...Click here
Canada: Western Canada may seed more barley than expected ...Click here




United Kingdom: SABMiller’s UK operation delivers best annual results in its history ...More Info
Canada: Molson Coors Brewing not to shift focus from its most successful Coors Light beer ...More Info
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Russia: Russians lose taste for imported beer in Q1 ...More Info
United States & Canada: Molson Coors increases quarterly dividend by 20% unlike other companies ...More Info
Nigeria: Diageo’s Guinness Nigeria nearly doubles net profit in its third quarter ...More Info
Ukraine: Slavutich Carlsberg Group not to pay dividend on lack of profit ...More Info
Japan: Asahi’s new genre beer leads in sales both in April and in the first four months of this year ...More Info
Romania: Successful financial year results allow Ursus Breweries to compete for market leadership with Heineken ...More Info
Australia: Victoria Bitter loses chare despite Foster’s marketing efforts ...More Info
United States: Latest Nielsen’s report shows consumers will drink beer mostly at home when the economy recovers ...More Info
Ukraine: Excise duty on beer to be increased by 74% ...More Info
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Brewery News

World: SABMiller reports results for the year ended March 31
SABMiller plc, the world’s second-largest brewer, reported on May, 14 its preliminary (unaudited) results for the twelve months to 31 March 2009.

SABMiller’s group revenue ...More Info

CIS: Efes Breweries International says consolidated sales volume slightly decreased in Q1 2009

Efes Breweries International N.V. (EBI) announced on May, 14 its consolidated unaudited financial results for the three months period ended 31 March 2009 in accordance with IFRS.

In 1Q 2009, EBI’s consolidated sales volume reached 2.5 mln hl, recording a decline of 4.2% over the previous year. On an organic basis*, sales volume declined by 2.8% year‐on‐year. Sales volume decline was due to the continued effect of the economic slowdown in the region combined with the strong base of 1Q 2008, when total and organic sales volume was up by 12.0% and 9.5%, respectively, Efes said.

The downward trend in the Russian beer market continued in the first quarter of 2009 as expected, due to the deteriorating consumer demand as a result of the global financial crisis. In this challenging environment, EBI once again managed to outperform the beer market by realizing 2.0 mln hl sales volume.

The decline in EBI’s sales volume in Russia stood at 5.3% vs. the estimated market decline of 7%. EBI’s market share in Russia was 9.3% in 1Q 2009, slightly over the 9.2% market share it has attained in 1Q 2008. (AC Nielsen).

In Kazakhstan, sales volume grew by 32.3% in 1Q 2009 vs 1Q 2008 and reached ...More Info


Denmark: Carlsberg to cut more costs that expected, but not so ‘brutally’ as AB InBev
Carlsberg A/S, the largest brewer in the Nordic countries and Russia, will surpass previous savings forecasts after last year’s joint takeover of Scottish & ...More Info

Mexico: Femsa to cut costs, put on hold investments and see a small dip in the current quarter - CEO
Femsa, Latin America's largest brewer and bottler, plans to cut $250 million in costs this year to better handle the economic slowdown, which is ...More Info

Germany: Consumers turn to a relative newcomer Oettinger, analysts forecast another good month for beer sales
Last year European governments imposed smoking bans on restaurants, pubs and bars, which led to a large number of closures, especially in the UK. ...More Info

Australia: Foster’s completes purchase of a stake in Fiji and Samoa brewing operations
Foster's Group Limited announced on May, 15 it has completed the purchase Fijian Holdings Limited's 29.0% shareholding in Foster's Group Pacific Limited.

The company said ...More Info

Poland: SABMiller acquires full ownership of its Polish brewing subsidiary
SABMiller plc announced on May, 14 that it has agreed to acquire the outstanding 28.1% minority interest in its Polish subsidiary, Kompania Piwowarska S.A., ...More Info

South Africa: South African Breweries Ltd reports a 2% drop in lager sales in the twelve months to end March 2009
Following the release of SABMiller plc's preliminary results for the period to end March 2009, the South African Breweries Limited (SAB) has announced on ...More Info

Barley News

Canada: Western Canada may seed more barley than expected
The area seeded to barley by producers in Western Canada may actually be higher than anticipated despite cash bids for the commodity remaining depressed, ...More Info
Scientific Digest

A Semi-Quantitative Method for the Detection of Trace Amounts of Native Collagen in Beer

Kathleen Hofman, Kim Bulling, Susan Marshall1 and Terry Chadderton

Abstract:
J. Inst. Brew. 114(3), 257–261, 2008 Concerns about the potential allergenicity of collagen proteins remaining after beverage fining have necessitated development of methods to detect collagen in beer at very low concentrations. We have developed a semi-quantitative SDS-PAGE/densitometer method suitable for use in brewer’s laboratories, for detection of residual native collagen at levels as low as 0.03 ppm (depending on the beer). The method is based on the fibril-forming properties of collagen molecules at elevated ionic strength. It will not detect denatured collagens so cannot be used on pasteurised beers. For a quantitative reference that compensates for significant differences in beer composition, and the different fining agents, a known amount of the acid-soluble fraction of the fining agent is added to the test beer to set limits of detection for the test. Densitometer results from the SDS-PAGE gels can vary with sample volume, depending on background interference but this can be reduced by careful selection of gel loading volumes. Fining out of the added collagen occurs in some beers, so less collagen is detected in the reference samples than expected. However, as long as densitometer readings for the sample are below those of the spiked reference, then collagen levels can be declared with confidence as being less than those of the reference. Key words: Beer, collagen, fining... Load full article, 5 pages, 6520 Kb, PDF file

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* - 70/30 = 70% Average two Rows Spring and 30% Six Rows Winter
** - 50/50 = 50% Average two Rows Spring and 50% Six Rows Winter

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