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European Spirit-Makers Agree To Calorie Content Labels

Europe’s spirit-makers recently announced plans to list the number of calories and ingredients in spirit drinks, as businesses and regulators step up...

Carlsberg Maintains 2019 Profit Outlook After Strong Start To Year

Carlsberg A/S has reported a 9% jump in first-quarter sales, with the Danish brewer maintaining its full-year guidance for 2019. Sales came in at 13.89...

Heineken Sees Beer Volumes Up 1.6% In Europe In Q1

Heineken has posted a 1.6% increase in beer volumes in Europe in the first quarter of its financial year, despite the later timing of Easter, the group sai...

AB InBev Adds Citi, BAML To Banks Working On Asian IPO

The world's biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, has added Citigroup and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to the team of banks working on the sale of its Asi...

AB InBev's UK Operations Unveil New Identity

AB InBev's UK operations have been rebranded as the Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I, with the business also announcing the opening of a new London hea...

Italy's Birra Peroni Sets New Production Record In 2018

Italian brewery Birra Peroni closed 2018 with a 6.4% of growth in production compared to the previous year, to six million hectolitres. Over t...

In Paris, British Punters Drown Sorrows With 'Brexit Beer'

If Prime Minister Theresa May or any other Briton needs some Dutch courage to see them through the fraught final countdown to Britain's departure from the...

Italy Sets New Beer Consumption Record In 2018

Beer purchases in Italy set a new record last year, hitting the €1 billion sales mark for the first time. In addition, beer consumption per head is...