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- Share HighEnd Wine Category on the Rise
- Craft beers also show surge In a good trend for craft and specialty brewers, high-end wines are booming, according to marketing information company ACNielsen Sales of wines in the $11 and higher category have risen almost 20 percent over last year the company said. Wines costing $7 to $11 ha ...
- Share Redhook Shipments Down 2 in First Quarter
- Redhook Ale Brewery, Incorporated announced a net loss of $732,000, or $0.09 loss per share, for the 2005 first quarter, compared to a net loss of $921,000, or $0.15 loss per share for the 2004 first quarter. Shipments were down 2.0% in the same period. The Company benefited in the 2005 first quart ...
- Share Saint Arnold Expands
- Texas’ oldest craft brewers has record year After a record breaking year of sales in 2004, Texas’ oldest microbrewery, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, is adding equipment and personnel to increase capacity by one third. The six-figure investment will include a new bright beer tank, extra refri ...
- Share AB Takes Another Tumble
- Company reports second quarter sales down by 3.7% Anheuser-Busch Cos. reported a 3.7% drop in second quarter domestic beer sales as the company continues to struggle with slumping U.S. beer sales and increased cost pressures in the major brand segment. The second quarter decline leaves A-B dow ...
- Share Full 039Tilt039
- Anheuser-Busch releases raspberry-flavored caffeinated malt drink Anheuser-Busch Co. has rolled out another caffeinated malt beverage – this one aimed to be even less beer-like than B-to-the-E, which debuted nine months ago. Tilt, a raspberry-flavored drink, targets 21- to 27-year-old m ...
- Share Health Notice
- Alcohol companies in Great Britain have struck a deal with the Department of Health to print health warnings on nearly all cans and bottles containing beer and spirits. The industry hopes to avoid legislation to force it to introduce stark health warnings similar to those on cigarette packets. By ...
- Share 8216Big Ad8217 Big Deal
- Carlton Draught’s Big Ad tapped into modern technology to live up to its “big” claim, with millions of copies of the ad being downloaded in August as links appeared on thousands of Internet blogs. The ad features computer-generated armies of men wearing robes running toward each o ...
- Share Coopers Faces Takeover
- Lion Nathan plans takeover bid for Aussie craft brewer Australian beer company Lion Nathan Ltd. announced today it plans to make a takeover bid for South Australia-based Coopers Brewery Ltd., valuing the unlisted company at $266 million. “Coopers has a number of quality brands, including ...
- Share Got Beer Milk
- French farmer invents milk-based drink with 2% alcohol A French dairy farmer has invented a product he calls milk beer. “Everyone thought I was crazy to try to make a milk-based alcohol,” said Marcel Besnard. He said low prices and strict quotas had led him to look for other ways to ...
- Share 8216Bone Head8217 Judges Honor Denver Brewery
- SandLot Brewery at Coors Field set a Great American Beer Festival record by capturing seven of the 206 medals awarded in the Professional Panel Blind Tasting competition. The brewery, owned by Coors, also generated one of the loudest cheers during the awards ceremony Saturday in Denver when the nam ...
