Sentences with phrase «biggest brewer in»

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There's a big hurdle standing in the way of every brewer who wants to blend pot and beer, though: the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

The world's biggest beer makers have been angling to tap rising interest in the craft category, which generated $ 19.6 billion in retail sales last year and now accounts for 11 % of the total beer market, according to industry trade group the Brewers Association.

Carlsberg The Danish brewer reduced its forecast this summer: It now expects sales in Russia, where it is the biggest brewer — the company says it commands 39 % of the country's beer market and operated 10 breweries — to full 6 % to 7 %.

The companies that make those beers, Boston Beer (sam) and Molson Coors (tap - a) respectively, have found themselves in a war of words after The New York Times published an op - ed by Boston Beer founder Jim Koch in which the brewer lamented the effect Big Beer mergers have had on the craft beer industry.

The Heineken - Lagunitas link - up is part of a broader trend of the world's biggest brewers scooping up full or controlling stakes in craft beer rivals.

While Brazil's poor performance dragged down AB InBev's 2016 results, the big brewer said it did see growth in other key markets, including a double - digit revenue gain in Mexico.

You'd be hard - pressed to find a more divisive issue in the craft beer community than Big Beer's recent shopping spree for small brewers.

On Tuesday, Lagunitas, another big California brewer, announced it had sold a 50 % stake in the company to Germany's Heineken, in a move to greatly boost its distribution.

AB InBev, the world's biggest beer brewer, has acquired a significant stake in one of China's best known craft brewers, in a move that shakes up the country's tiny but booming craft beer scene and, the slumping beer giant hopes, its own bottom line.

Craft beer lovers can take comfort: The Brewers Association reports that there are now more than 4,000 active breweries in the U.S., so Big Beer buyouts can't possibly match the pace of new businesses.

The market share within craft has grown from 1 % to over 3 % over that period within the U.S. Heineken's beer volume growth, like other big brewers, is far slower, rising 3.6 % in the Americas in the first half of 2015.

Maintaining that small, micro-brew feel is part of Big Rock's marketing presence, and the brewer continues to place an emphasis on the Prairies in its new labels and advertising.

How three mighty mites have managed to carve out niches in the face of competition from brewers big and small, Amazon, and SAP's Ariba software unit.

So is it any surprise big brewers are making a practice of either buying microbreweries outright (as Sleeman did with Quebec's Unibroue in 2004, only to be swallowed by Sapporo in 2006) or, more recently, by launching their own «craft breweries» (as Moosehead did when it launched Brampton, Ont.

Bummed by flat sales of their easier - drinking, ice - cold lagers, the world's biggest brewers have begun sweating small suds in a big way.

The strong sales in the U.S. bode well for big industry players like Diageo (deo), Pernod Ricard (pdrdy), and Brown - Forman (bfb), as well as the emerging, fast - growing craft spirits industry that is mirroring the success craft brewers had in the beer world.

The Brewers Association has launched a new suite of materials to help retailers activate the independent craft brewer seal in their businesses and differentiate authentic independent craft beer from Big Beer acquired brands.

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The Justice Department review comes at an awkward time for AB InBev as it is seeking to buy No. 2 SABMiller Plc SAB.L for more than $ 100 billion in what would be the biggest - ever merger of brewers.

AB InBev posted weaker - than - expected fourth quarter earnings as slowing sales in Brazil hit the bottom line of the world's biggest brewer.

There's a huge debate in the craft world about us, all big brewers, because we're like the enemy.

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Craft beer is also big business, having an economic impact in Ohio of $ 238.1 million in 2012, according to the Brewers Association.

Brewers in the US with a bigger partner with a stake of below 25 per cent still retain their status as a «craft» brewer under the Brewers Association rules.

Eric Ottaway, CEO of Brooklyn Brewing, the 11th biggest craft brewer in the United States which also has a licensing agreement in Australia with Coopers Brewery, said on Thursday that Brooklyn had focused on tap beer first in Australia to build up its brand in part because of the power of the two big retailers.

The world's biggest beer company, AB InBev, has swallowed craft brewer Pirate Life in its second craft beer buy - up in Australia in two months.

Helped by its sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup, Anheuser - Busch InBev, the world's biggest brewer, increased beer volumes by 2 % in its second quarter and by 1.5 % in the first half of 2010.

Lion boss Stuart Irvine, who was in Geelong on Monday morning to launch the nation's biggest brewer's new Little Creatures brewery, said his company's lightening purchase of a 10 per cent stake in takeover target WCB two months ago would deliver it a «seat at the table» and influence over the direction of the outcome.

Heineken, Big Drop back Club Soda's Mindful Drinking Christmas Festival Heineken's 0.0 beer, along with low - alcohol craft brewer Big Drop, will sponsor a mindful drinking festival in London this mont...

With more than 100 microbreweries and craft brewers now dotting the map in Southern California, traveling to each and every one could prove difficult for even the biggest of beer fans.

«It's a bit of departure from winter's typical big brown porters and stouts,» says head brewer Mike Hiller, who notes that March marks sunnier, more spring - like weather in Richmond.

Here's how big America's brewing scene has ballooned: Even if you visited one brewery daily, it'd take 11 - plus years to hit the country's 4,269 beer makers — the highest number in American history, according to the Brewers Association.

Baker notes: «The explosion of craft beer segment along with on - premise consumption will drive more small brewers to open their outlets in cities as traditional distribution channels are crowded with big brands.

The campaign seeks to draw attention to the lack of transparency and growing disparity in marketplace influence between small and independent brewers and «Big Beer».

So in October the BA launched its own tongue - in - cheek crowdfunding campaign to raise $ 213bn to purchase Anheuser - Busch InBev, the world's biggest brewer.

But bugaphobes can take comfort in knowing that with the revitalized Indians drawing bigger crowds, the situation may now have improved slightly over last season, when Brewers coach Larry Haney was able to offer this explanation of why Cleveland led the league in bugs: «There's no one in the stands to kill them.»

In addition to the re-signing of third baseman Kevin Seitzer, the Brewers» leader and best player, Bando's other big off - season move was to acquire centerfielder Chuck Carr from the Marlins to bat leadoff.

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Then the big brewers and Coke and Pepsi convinced their customers that it wasn't their responsibility, and we now pay for it in our taxes, in our landfills, in the warehouses full of the plastic bottles and containers that the members of American Chemistry Council are so happy to fill and that Nestle is so happy to sell.

Similarly, «[t] he micro-brewery trend started in the mid-1970s in response to the «homogenization» of the American beer market by the big brewers.