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Hey Delt....you're slacking off
The Great American Beer crisis
The great American beer crisis. By Daniel Gross When the economy is booming, we pound a six-pack of Bud with our buddies and watch the game. When the economy is lousy, we pound a six-pack of Coors with our buddies and watch the game. When the economy is flat, we pound a six-pack of Miller with our buddies and watch the game. This is why companies that make beer—like those that make diapers, electricity, and cereal—have countercyclical stocks. When the economy hits a soft patch, investors take refuge in them. But now there's a fear in our beer. Last week, two leading beer companies reported disappointing results. Anheuser-Busch, which claims more than half the U.S. beer market, announced it was suffering from falling demand and rising costs. The volume of Bud and Michelob sold in the U.S. fell 2.7 percent from the year-ago quarter. Newly merged cross-border beer powerhouse Molson Coors reported a loss, with net sales in the U.S. down 2 percent, and U.S. operating income off by nearly one-third. The most recent trading statement of Miller, the No. 2 U.S. beer brand now owned by SABMiller, showed marginal growth. In the past two years, according to Gary Hemphill, managing director of Beverage Marketing Corp., beer volume has risen at a meager 0.5 percent annual rate. Why are brewers crying in their beers? In part, they're facing the same difficulties as other manufacturers. Costs for raw materials and energy are rising, and they're having difficulty passing costs along to consumers. But beer companies are also butting up against some powerful demographic and cultural trends that may flatten sales for years to come. |
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05-07-2005, 10:26 PM | #2 |
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Personally,I think more and more beer drinkers are just realizing that those beers mentioned really do suck.
**edited to add** Just one beer drinkers opinion.
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Yeah - those "brewers" (and I use that term loosely) are going to see their profits continue to flatten as more and more people realize they've been consuming pisswater for the past century.
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05-07-2005, 11:03 PM | #5 |
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Seens like several of the premium brands have stepped up their marketing efforts in the last few years. Wonder if that has much to do with it.
I definitly seems like people are drinking premiums and micros at bars more often these days. Hell at most places its not much difference in price either. Chip in the extra quarter and you can drink something that doesnt suck. |
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05-07-2005, 11:06 PM | #6 | |
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05-08-2005, 05:41 AM | #9 |
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No response by Endelt all night...He must have been out "working overtime" trying to correct this problem....
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As I have been deployed for the last earnings period, I take full responsibility for this decline. I will correct this oversight immediately upon my return to the States...JUST UNDER TWO WEEKS TO GO!!
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05-08-2005, 09:10 AM | #12 |
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I can't remember the last time that I actually drank a macro-brewery product.
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05-08-2005, 04:09 PM | #15 |
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I didn't realize when I stopped drinking it would cost them so much..
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