date:Aug 25, 2012
er business by 2014, and this week he described premium beer as anattractive growth opportunity.
He noted a beer EBIT pool of around AUS $1.4bn across the Pacific region (with major players SAB Miller/Carlton United Breweries and Kirin representing AUS $800m and AUS $500m respectively).
ABC will use the loan to help it acquire and expand a brewery in Griffith, New South Wales, into a 500,000 hectolitre annual capacity brewery.
CCA also proposes to acquire a Fosters owned brewery and distiller