HOT
TRUB
March 8, 2001
Edited by: Peter LaFrance (peter.lafrance@beerbasics.com)
Presented by: American Brewer
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Vol. 2 No. 10
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Czech Budweiser Enters US Market
Reuter’s Prague reporter filed the following early this morning… “A Czech daily newspaper reported today that Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar is taking on Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. in the U.S., launching its version of the Budweiser Budvar beer there under a new name to circumvent A-B's rights to the trademark.”
(I just heard the same news at 0900 this morning on WQXR-Radio Station of The New York Times.)
Reuters reports that the business daily Hospodarske Noviny said the state-owned brewer has begun shipping small amounts to the United States under the name "Czechvar."
The Reuters report went on to say that, “The brewery declined to comment on the report, which quoted Petr Bohacek from Czech Beer Importers Inc, Budvar's representative in the United States. Budvar spokesman Martin Dolezal said the company was planning a news conference to present its new U.S. strategy at the end of March. He declined to give details.
The More Things Stay The same… Britons still sweet on roast beef and a pint
A recent report from the Reuters office in London, England confirms that “Britons downed more beer, indulged a sweet tooth and shrugged aside mad cow disease's sweep through Europe last year.”
Home beef and veal consumption jumped 12 percent in 2000 over 1999. Only alcoholic drinks and confectionery products showed more of a growth the National Food Survey said.
Beef buying recovered to exceed levels hit in 1995 -- just before mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), was linked to a human brain wasting disease that has killed more than 80 people in Britain and France.
"Purchases of alcoholic drinks for consumption at home rose by 13 percent in 2000, mainly due to year-on-year increases of 22 percent and 26 percent in the third and fourth quarters, respectively," the survey showed. For the year, beer purchases rose 10 percent, lagers and continental beers by 22 percent and wine by nine percent.”
NB – This report came out one day before the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease.
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