As the World Drinks: AB InBev's Carlos Brito

Almost two years ago global brewing powerhouse InBev bought U.S.-based Anheuser-Busch for a staggering $52 billion, creating AB InBev, which now controls about a quarter of the world's beer market.Carlos Brito, the company's CEO tells Big Think that “One of the beauties of this merger was to really enable Budweiser to become our global flagship brand.”...

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A thousand year of hairstyles

Hair design contest launched to celebrate Hanoi’s great anniversary , VietNamNet Bridge - A hair design contest entitled “A thousand year of hairstyles” featuring Hanoi’s hairstyles for the last 1000 years, has been launched in Hanoi.  The contest will give people a chance to have a clear view of the changes Vietnamese hairstyles have...

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From Spain, Big Reds That Are Well Balanced

RIBERA DEL DUERO is a paradoxical region, ancient yet thoroughly modern. Its wines embrace the mainstream characteristics that seem so popular around the world. They are plush, opulent, flamboyantly fruity and powerfully oaky. Yet while some unavoidably stray into the homogenized international style, the best remain identifiably Spanish. What makes...

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Billionaire Mallya's UB Group-india to Buy Heineken Venture, Alcohol Maker Stake

Billionaire Vijay Mallya’s UB Group will buy a stake in an Indian alcohol maker and merge its breweries, including a venture with Heineken NV, with United Breweries Ltd., the owner of the nation’s biggest beer brand.United Breweries, the Bangalore-based maker of Kingfisher beer, rose as much as 2.9 percent to 448 rupees in...

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Pepsi has the advantage in Hindi

NEW DELHI — Coca-Cola Co. offered to buy a refrigerator for Rajesh Yadav's store if he would sell only the company's drinks.Yadav kept his part of the bargain: Lines of Coke and Diet Coke cans glisten behind the glass screens of the fridge. A red-and-white banner with a Bollywood film star chugging a bottle adorns his storefront.Yet Yadav doesn't...

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Coca Cola's largest China bottling plant to open in October

Coca Cola, the world's largest beverage maker, will begin operations at its largest bottling plant in China, a 900-million-yuan (132-million-US dollar) investment in Luohe City of central China's Henan province, by the end of October this year."We are very positive and committed to our growth here in China," said Glenn Jordan, president of Coca Cola...

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New Jersey's wine market is aging well

Winemaker Larry Sharrott 3d looked through a kaleidoscopelike instrument called a refractometer, measuring the sugar content of a just-pressed batch of chardonnay grapes. He liked what he saw.This summer's hot, dry weather has produced the best grape harvest in South Jersey in years, growers say - high in sugars and full in flavor. "Napalike," Sharrott...

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Brewers Association Announces 2010 Great American Beer Festival Competition Winners Competition Continues to Grow; 2010 Entries up Nine Percent

BOULDER, Colo., Sep 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The 2010 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition drew an impressive field of competitors, with 2010 topping last year's entries by nine percent. GABF remains the largest commercial beer competition in the world, with 3,523 beers vying for medals (compared to 3,308 entries in 2009).View the 2010...

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Wine distribution options at stake Proposed law would eliminate dualing practice By Bill O'Brien

TRAVERSE CITY — Northern Michigan winemakers worry that a bill in the state Legislature will slash their distribution options and stunt wine-industry expansion. The deep-pocketed Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association backs the proposed law, which would eliminate a practice known as dualing that allows wineries to use more than one distributor. It...

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