Japanese beer maker Asahi Group said it will take on EUR7.4bn in bank loans to finance its purchase of SABMiller's former Central & Eastern European beer assets. Asahi said its board agreed to the loan, from Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui and ...
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Asahi Group has agreed to acquire a group of Eastern European beer brands from Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) for €7.3bn. As per the deal, the Japanese beverage giant will purchase the beer brands and their operations in Czech ...
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A new research has revealed that the number of UK breweries has increased by 8% to nearly 1,700 over the past year due to the continuous surge in popularity of craft beers. The research from UHY Hacker Young has found that the number of ...
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According to the latest research conducted by business and financial advisory firm Grant Thornton UK, after a strong first quarter deal activity in the food and beverage sector has declined this quarter, due to market uncertainty in the ...
South African competition commission has given conditional approval of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $100bn acquisition of SABMiller. The Commission has given to the recommendations to the Competition Tribunal following an investigation ...
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper spoke at a Teamsters rally outside of the MillerCoors brewery in Eden, North Carolina. MillerCoors announced plans to close the Eden brewery in September 2015, just two days before merger talks ...
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Belgian beverage giant AB InBev says it will allow a Chinese Government owned company to acquire SABMiller’s Chinese beer business if AB InBev itself can acquire SABMiller. AB InBev last week revealed it will allow China Resources ...
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Can-Pack Group, the manufacturer of aluminium beverage cans, has launched its new Dh200m ($54.4m) manufacturing plant at Dubai Investments Park, Dubai. The 150,000ft2 facility, the group's second manufacturing plant in the area, is ...
Marks and Spencer Group plc (M&S), one of the leading British multinational retailers, has appointed Helen Weir CBE to its Board as its Chief Finance Officer (CFO). Helen is currently the CFO at the John Lewis Partnership. She joined John ...
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KAPIRI Glass Factory is set to revive operations in July next year following the successful recapitalisation of the firm. The glass factory, which will operate under a new name called Kapiri Glass Manufacturing (KGM) Limited, is expected ...
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The unique beer bottle created last year to celebrate the 170th birthday of the original Pilsen lager beer Pilsner Urquell, has won the current award WorldStar 2014 at the international competition WorldStar Packaging Awards 2014. This ...
A male contraceptive could be on the horizon after a discovery of a novel way to block the transport of sperm during ejaculation, Australian researchers say. Lead researchers, Dr. Sab Ventura and Dr. Carl White of the Monash Institute of ...
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Brewing major SAB Miller has posted group revenues of $17.56bn in its first half (H1) ended September 2013, compared to $17.47bn in the corresponding period last year. These revenues were driven by lager volume growth of 1% on an ...
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Kapiri Glass Factory is set to reopen its operations in July next year under a new local investor Chimsoro Milling Company Limited. This follows the recapitalization and re-investment into latest machinery and technology at the once ...
Ohio-based Republic Steel, a subsidiary of Mexican Simec SAB de CV has contracted with United State Steel Corporation(USSC) to supply maximum of 450,000 tons of tube rounds for USSC's tubular products from its new installed Electric Arc ...