Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Leading beer brands In spite of the major consolidation taking place in the global beer market, there are still a variety of major contenters who sell very popular brands.  But make a distinction between sales by volume, which this chart notes, and total gross sales in terms of income. Here US, Japan, and Europe-based companies have a major advantage, in that they charge far higher prices than breweries in markets like Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines, Venezuela, and China.   Top 2003 Beers by volume Rank Brand Country (main) Brewer Million barrels 1 Budweiser USA Anheuser-Busch 38.1 2 Bud Lite USA Anheuser-Busch 37.1 3 Skol Brazil InBev 27.2 4 Corona Mexico Grupo Modelo 23.0 5 Heineken Netherlands Heinken 18.8 6 Coors Light USA Coors 16.6 7 Asahi SuperDry Japan Asahi 16.0 8 Miller Lite USA SAB Miller 15.9 9 Brahma Chopp Brazil InBev 13.9 10 Polar Venezuela Cerveceria Polar 12.3 11 Tsingdao China Tsingdao 10.2 12 Amstel Netherlands Heineken 9.4 13 Carlsberg Denmark Carlsberg 9.2 14 Guinness Stout Ireland Diageo 8.9 15 San Miguel Philippines San Miguel 8.8 16 Kirin Tanrei Japan Tanrei 8.6 17 Natural Light USA Anheuser-Busch 8.3 18 Baltika Russia Baltic Beverage Holding 8.3 19 Stella Artois Belgium InBev 8.2 20 Kaiser Brazil Coors (molson) 7.6 Source: Anheuser-Busch site, based on IMPACT survey 2:53:17 PM

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