Are big beer mergers good for craft brewers?
Speaking of Heineken’s purchase of FEMSA, Public Radio’s Marketplace had a story on how consolidation of brewing giants can help craft brewers.
Marketplace: Are beer mergers a good brew for biz?
Uli Bennewitz owns the Weeping Radish Farm Brewery in Jarvisburg, N.C. He also runs a butchery and an organic farm.
Everybody is wary of “where does this stuff come from?” There is clearly a move towards local, local, local. And I think that is an advantage for small breweries.
They also follow up with a bit of analysis on the Marketplace blog:
Maketplace Scratch Pad: One world, one beer company?
Paddy [Hirsch] recently visited Stone Brewing Company near San Diego, and they told him they loved it when the big companies merged. The mergers turn off beer-drinkers, perhaps in principle but also because something bad seems to happen to the flavor of a decent beer when it gets swallowed up by a mega-corporation. People start looking for alternatives.
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January 11, 2010 - 9:27 AM
Tags: american revolution, anheuser-busch inbev, auction, beer prices, canada, china, counterfeit, craft beer, europe, femsa, heineken, layoffs, loyalist, united kingdom
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A sixer of news items on beer that we spotted recently.
BBC News: Anheuser-Busch InBev to cut 800 European jobs
That’s about 10% of their European workforce and is ” a response to falling beer sales”. Well, if they made any products I’d want to drink…
Idaho Statesman: It’s been a good decade for craft beer
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Heineken bottle Christmas Tree
December 22, 2009 - 8:40 AM
Tags: beer bottle, china, christmas tree, heineken
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As seen on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China.
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December 12, 2009 - 7:00 PM
Tags: bahamas, heineken, kalik
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Beer-a-Day #346
It bills itself as the “Beer of the Bahamas” and is brewed by Commonwealth Brewery, a subsidiary of Heineken International.
Clear pale yellow. Aroma is slightly floral with a little of that lager “funk”. Taste is, well, typical of a European-style light lager. I’ll gladly have some time next time I’m in the Bahamas [...]
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July 23, 2009 - 9:54 PM
Tags: heineken
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Taking a break from domestic macro lagers, it’s time to try one from Europe. Might as well go with the biggest.
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The difference between men and women
January 27, 2009 - 12:00 PM
Tags: commercial, heineken, video
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I’m not a fan of Heineken, as you must know by now, but this is a pretty amusing illustration of the difference between men’s and women’s priorities.
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Beer drinkers try to derail InBev / Anheuser-Busch deal
September 25, 2008 - 12:00 PM
Tags: anheuser-busch, inbev, merger
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Just when I though I wasn’t going to write any more about InBev’s acquisition of Anheuser-Busch…
Apparently, ten regular drinkers of Anheuser-Busch products filed suit in St. Louis to block the deal on antitrust grounds.
Beer Drinkers Challenge InBev-Anheuser-Busch Deal
The suit, filed in Anheuser-Busch’s hometown of St. Louis, does not seek financial damages but asks a judge [...]
George Will: Beer is essential
July 21, 2008 - 12:00 PM
Tags: anheuser-busch, Beer, civilization, essential, george will, inbev, merger
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In his Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post two weeks ago, George F. Will used the (at the time) as yet unaccepted offer from InBev for Anheuser-Busch as seen in Investor’s Business Daily as a lead-in to meander from beer as a staple, to beer as essential to civilization, to beer and its role in [...]
It’s official: Anheuser-Busch InBev
July 14, 2008 - 8:26 AM
Tags: anheuser-busch, inbev, merger
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$50 billion and you can become the world’s largest beer manufacturer.
Anheuser-Busch Agrees to Be Sold to InBev
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Anheuser-Busch sells out at $70 a share
July 13, 2008 - 12:00 PM
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It is being widely reported this weekend that InBev has increased their offer to $70 per share for Anheuser-Busch, and that the A-B Board of Directors is prepared to accept the offer.
InBev had recently begun a campaign to unseat the current Board. But, apparently confident the deal will go through, InBev has already begun setting [...]
InBev is a persistent suitor
July 1, 2008 - 8:43 AM
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Maybe they need someone to take the role of Cyrano de Bergerac.
InBev Remains Committed to $46.3 Billion Anheuser Bid
InBev NV, whose bid for Anheuser-Busch Cos. was rejected by the Budweiser maker, repeated that it’s committed to its offer of $65 a share and would prefer a friendly takeover.
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February 11, 2010 - 9:26 PM
I tend to agree. We should discuss over a craft beer.
I wonder where the middle guys fit into this. I am talking about your Sam Adams, Brooklyns and Sierra Nevadas.