Carlsberg Group, a Danish brewing company with international presence, will shut down its Fribourg brewing unit in Switzerland by June 2011, and will make its Rheinfelden brewery as its base for beer production in the country.
SABMiller subsidiary company Southern Sudan Beverages (SSBL) has said that it is doubling the size of its existing brewery operations in Juba and has introduced a soft drinks range and bottled water product into the country.
Craft Brewers Alliance, an Oregon-based independent craft brewing company, has reported net sales of $37.2m for the second quarter of 2010, up 4% compared to $35.6m for the same quarter last year.
North American Breweries (NAB), a New York-based portfolio company of KPS Capital Partners (KPS), has acquired Vermont-based Independent Brewers United (IBU) through an indirect subsidiary. The parties did not reveal the financial terms of the agreement.
MillerCoors has reported net sales of $2.134bn for the second quarter of fiscal 2010, a decrease of 0.1% compared to $2.136bn in the last year quarter.
Efes Breweries, a brewing company in Russia, has reported increase in consolidated sales volumes by 14.8% for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 outpacing the volume growth of 10.5% in the first quarter of 2010.
