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Dutch brewer Heineken has apparently discovered a neat trick: In the face of falling beer sales, raise prices and cut costs. Voila! Bigger profits. We’ve seen it before from other big brewers in St. Louis, London…

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SABMiller’s lager volumes will remain flat in the current year, the chief executive of the London-based brewing giant said Friday. SABMiller is the world’s second-biggest brewer by volume after Anheuser-Busch InBev, and competes with Belgium-based ABI all…

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SABMiller chief executive Graham Mackay said he’s prepared to make acquisitions and forecast the beer industry will recover from the global recession at a sluggish pace.

SABMiller, the biggest competitor…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that London-based SABMiller, the world’s second largest brewer,  posted flat sales volume in its fiscal first quarter. The economic downturn hampered consumer demand, particularly in Eastern Europe.

SABMiller said its core lager volume, which strips out the…

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Bloomberg is reporting that SABMiller’s executive pay was criticized by a British pension adviser, which said the brewer’s $10 million compensation for chief executive Graham Mackay and other top managers was “excessive.” From the story:

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Dan Kopman is best known as the chief operating officer of St. Louis Brewery Inc., the maker of Schlafly beer. But as a young lad, before the Schlafly adventure began in 1991, he worked in Edinburgh’s Fountain Brewery  and Young’s Brewery…

Seeking to cut costs in the U.K. market, Anheuser-Busch InBev plans to close the famed Stag Brewery in Mortlake, which is located in west London, according to media reports.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the new company created out of the merger between Belgian brewer InBev and St.…

We have to admit, this caught our eye. SABMiller of London, the world’s second-largest brewer behind Anheuser-Busch InBev, is planning to invest millions of dollars in a brewery in southern Sudan.

As you lager heads might know, Sudan has suffered civil war…

The New York Times has a cool interview with the seemingly omnipresent Jim Koch, founder of Boston Beer (the company that makes Sam Adams beer). Jim is one of the founders of the mainstream craft beer movement in America. No less a marketer…

The Independent, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, reports that Anheuser-Busch InBev “looks set to cull hundreds of jobs in the UK” where responsibilities overlap. Something like this was to be expected, since InBev and Anheuser-Busch made no secret of planning…