In 1989, President Yoweri Museveni liberalized the beer industry, and indigenous players crept forward.
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Answer: Over the past decade or so Carlsberg has failed to prepare itself financially for the modern era of beer industry consolidation.
For the fourth year in a row, the beer industry has continued its declines and lost 1.9% to total 2.8 billion cases.
The beer industry praised the agency for acknowledging that labels should take into account variations in the concentration of alcohol content in different products.
The ruling would allow the labels to declare alcohol content as a percentage of alcohol by volume, the approach favored by the beer industry.
While candy is getting more beer-like, beer is getting more candy-like, as the craft beer industry, which first took root in the 1980s, matures.
McClain said the beer industry is pleased that the ruling provides "substantial flexibility" in terms of the format and placement of the disclosure on packaging.
Teri Fahrendorf, a pioneer female brewmaster in the 1990s and founder of the Pink Boots Society for women in the beer industry, estimates 99% of brewmasters are men.
Such a move would be opposed by all wine, distilled spirits, and beer producers most vehemently by small production wineries and distillers, and the growing craft beer industry.
But craft brewers argue that their products are being pushed off the shelves as beer industry consolidation has given market leaders AB InBev and MillerCoors more control over wholesalers and retailers.
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In contrast to automakers, look at how the beer industry responded to activist groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, which began targeting the alcoholic beverage companies about three decades ago.
If the deal is permitted to go through, the U.S. beer industry will become that much less competitive and give ABI even more control over beer prices for Americans, the suit argues.
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Suffice to say, the American beer industry fascinates me, not least of all because until quite recently it was dominated by a handful of very big corporations making a very limited, and subpar range of brews.
Schmuan was among 100 or so major league and minor league executives at the Winter Meetings in Nashville listening to a talk from beer industry veteran Matt Borgard, director of venue sales for Crown Imports, the importer of Corona.
The way the Justice Department tells it, Grupo Modelo acts as a check on price increases by ABI, which usually come in concert with higher prices from the other heavyweight in the U.S. beer industry, MillerCoors (a joint venture between Molson Coors and SABMiller).
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Then, in 2006, Allagash founder Rob Tod flew to Brussels along with a few beer-industry colleagues, filled a journal with tasting notes and designed his shack.
The man in the street tends to be deeply attached to his favourite pint, making beer an industry in which small local brands can continue to prosper.
He previously called for summits to expand the yogurt industry and to help beer and wine sales but not to address this issue.
They have also said they will be careful not to take decisions that harm the country's tourist industry, which depends on beer-drinking, beach-going and sometimes bikini-clad Westerners.
The price to book multiple, generally a more conservative measure, has Boston Beer trading at 5x, just under the industry average of 5.3x.
Microsoft's push into video gaming is small beer compared with its dominance of the global software industry.
He says the pizza industry is experiencing the same transformation as beer and bread manufacturers, a move toward authentic, hand-crafted food.
Cutting duty on beer while increasing it on spirits punishes the UK spirits industry for its success in this harsh economic climate.
Industry consultant Tom Pirko of Bevmark notes Bud Lite is the most popular beer in America.
All this led to the beer business consolidating into a large-scale national, and more recently, international industry.
Grupo Modelo, the last major independent Mexican beer producer, has been acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, continuing a trend of industry consolidation.
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The result is likely to be a slimmed-down industry with fewer workers, and it is unlikely that consumers will benefit from significantly cheaper beer.
From there beer weathered a Revolution, Prohibition and a right turn at Albuquerque before positively exploding with deregulation of the industry through the early 1980s.
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