Comments on: Heineken acquires Czech brewing group http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=780 What part of beer don't you understand? Mon, 13 May 2013 13:22:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Honza http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=780&cpage=1#comment-105672 Honza Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:05:21 +0000 http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=780#comment-105672 Well, Heineken bought Krusovice brewery last year. There is about 700 thousands hectos of free capacity now, there will be a new hightway to Prague this year, free space to make it much bigger, one of the new brewery, Louny, is about 40 kilometres only away, other two, Zlatopramen and Breznak(both in the same city of Usti nad LAbem) another one hour drive by car only... And the next competitor- Staropramen owned by Inbev is about 16 percent market share...so every percent make sense for Heineken in our country... Well, Heineken bought Krusovice brewery last year. There is about 700 thousands hectos of free capacity now, there will be a new hightway to Prague this year, free space to make it much bigger, one of the new brewery, Louny, is about 40 kilometres only away, other two, Zlatopramen and Breznak(both in the same city of Usti nad LAbem) another one hour drive by car only…

And the next competitor- Staropramen owned by Inbev is about 16 percent market share…so every percent make sense for Heineken in our country…

]]> By: The Beer Doctor http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=780&cpage=1#comment-104918 The Beer Doctor Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:31:13 +0000 http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=780#comment-104918 The question is: why bother?! I understand that Heineken is hemmorrhaging cash, as they have been steadily losing market share for years, but will it really make a difference to the bottom line to acquire 1 decent-size brewer and 3 regional breweries simply for a gain of 3% per year?! As usual, Heineken is out of touch with the beer industry and the beer drinkers of this world. It seems like everything they do is about 10 years too late. Keeping that in mind, they should be releasing a raspberry wheat ale in about 1-2 years... Drink Better Beer. The question is: why bother?! I understand that Heineken is hemmorrhaging cash, as they have been steadily losing market share for years, but will it really make a difference to the bottom line to acquire 1 decent-size brewer and 3 regional breweries simply for a gain of 3% per year?!
As usual, Heineken is out of touch with the beer industry and the beer drinkers of this world.
It seems like everything they do is about 10 years too late. Keeping that in mind, they should be releasing a raspberry wheat ale in about 1-2 years…
Drink Better Beer.

]]> By: Mike http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=780&cpage=1#comment-104862 Mike Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:26:40 +0000 http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=780#comment-104862 Maybe more Czech drinkers will force Heineken to improve on their beer. As I recently found out Heineken already captured the international space http://www.bierandbars.com/?p=6 Maybe more Czech drinkers will force Heineken to improve on their beer. As I recently found out Heineken already captured the international space http://www.bierandbars.com/?p=6

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