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Danish brewer Carlsberg, the world’s fourth- largest beer maker, cut its full-year sales forecast, saying the Russian market will contract more than it expected this year.

That news comes courtesy of Bloomberg, which dives into the company’s…

Most top global brewers are selling less beer these days. But the big companies’ share prices have mostly gone up in recent months. What gives?

Trade publication Beer Marketer’s Insights has an interesting item on this odd dynamic. Global brewers’ revenues and…

Danish brewer Carlsberg is the world’s fourth-largest beer maker, but we bet you didn’t know that. The company is pretty quiet in the U.S. Lager Heads admits that we have been somewhat less than manic in digging into Carlsberg’s business.

But this caught our…

Sure, it’s only three months. But Anheuser-Busch InBev impressed some folks with Thursday’s announcement that it increased its global beer sales by about one percent in the first quarter (measured in liquid). It doesn’t sound like much, but in the…

Will beer companies’ sports marketing keep rolling through a recession?

That’s the question that reporters from Forbes and Reuters pondered in a couple of recent articles. Basically, the takeaway seems to be that lots of marketers are pulling back on marketing spending -…

The Associated Press thinks it has spotted a trend: economic weakness causing beer sales to slip worldwide. It cites the recent results of SABMiller, the London-based brewer that ranks as the world’s second-largest beer seller behind Anheuser-Busch InBev. SABMiller has encountered…