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Coca-Cola Femsa Keeps Heineken Beer Distribution Contracts In Brazil

Coca-Cola Femsa SAB de CV and Heineken NV have announced the end of an arbitration on contracts of beer distribution in Brazil favourable to Fems...

Italy To Retain Top Spot In Global Wine Production, Study Finds

Italy will retain its global leadership in wine production in 2019 despite a 16% decline in production, the latest report from the Wine Observatory&nb...

Canadian Group Buys Stake In Portugal’s Cerveja Quinas

Canadian holding company Société d'Investissements Cabral has purchased a 15% stake in Domus Capital, the owner of Portuguese beer brand Cerv...

Greene King Sales Improve Ahead Of Proposed Takeover

Brewer Greene King Plc said on Friday comparable sales at its pubs rose 1.5% over the last seven weeks, as it prepared for a proposed £4.6 billion (&...

Constellation Brands Acquires Minority Stake In Durham Distillery

Constellation Brands, the owner of Corona and Modelo beer brands, has acquired a minority stake in the North Carolina-based Durham Distillery. The inves...

UK Brewer Greene King Agrees To €5bn Hong Kong Offer

British brewer and pubs operator Greene King has agreed to a £4.6 billion (€5.02 billion) bid from a Hong Kong-listed company founded by the ter...

Warsteiner Appoints Interim Managers As Divisional Heads

Germany's Warsteiner brewery has appointed André Hilmer as the sales director of its catering division, reports rundschau.de. Elsewhere, Oliver J...

Portugal Sees Highest Beer Consumption In Decade

The beer category recorded €1.46 billion worth of sales in Portugal in the half-year to June 2019, with 473 million litres sold in the period, accordi...