Frankfurtvr4
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I am trying to prove that a combination of current legislation and organizations like InBev and SAB Miller control the market making it harder for US brewers to follow a model like Germany where there are multiple local breweries.
I outline how major brewing corporations were built here:
Brewing industry is marked by tremendous consolidation and the merger of brewing companies worldwide means that 55 percent of the 1.55 billion hectoliters came from just ten companies according to a 2009 study.
The largest brewing company in the world is Anheuser-Busch InBev. The Interbrew Company in Belgium had a flagship brand known as Stella Artois. The first acquisition of a brew company was Labatt. They then bought Becks in Germany as well as Bass and Whitbread in the United Kingdom. Interbrew soon merged with AmBev the Brazilian conglomerate to form Inbev. Inbev then acquired Aheuser-Busch in 2008 making them far and away the largest brewing company in the world. The number two is SAB Miller, South African Breweries acquired Miller from Phillip Morris formed the company that is headquartered in London, England.
Coors recently merged with Molson in Canada forming Molson-Coors. Even more recently Coors and Miller merged their US brewing interested to form Miller-Coors. There is an SAB Miller, and Molson-Coors but now they have merged their US interests into Miller-Coors. In Mexico Modello brews beer. Anheuser-busch owns a large portion of that company as well.
My legislation outline is here:
Taxation is a major contributor to production costs of beer around the world. In the US there are three layers of government levying taxes on beer. In 1862 Congress placed the first excise tax on beer. The Federal rate is 18 dollars a barrel since the tax was doubled in 1990 after lobbying by anti-alcohol advocates. The Tax levied by states varies greatly across the US. The current average is 18.25 cents per gallon. Sales taxes also apply most states. In Wyoming the taxed rate is around 2 cents a gallon compared to Alaska at 1.07. The tax levies make a huge contribution to all levels of government and has a huge economic impact on the US.
I need to find some way of getting data on how difficult it was for craft brewers to start-up. Any ideas?
I outline how major brewing corporations were built here:
Brewing industry is marked by tremendous consolidation and the merger of brewing companies worldwide means that 55 percent of the 1.55 billion hectoliters came from just ten companies according to a 2009 study.
The largest brewing company in the world is Anheuser-Busch InBev. The Interbrew Company in Belgium had a flagship brand known as Stella Artois. The first acquisition of a brew company was Labatt. They then bought Becks in Germany as well as Bass and Whitbread in the United Kingdom. Interbrew soon merged with AmBev the Brazilian conglomerate to form Inbev. Inbev then acquired Aheuser-Busch in 2008 making them far and away the largest brewing company in the world. The number two is SAB Miller, South African Breweries acquired Miller from Phillip Morris formed the company that is headquartered in London, England.
Coors recently merged with Molson in Canada forming Molson-Coors. Even more recently Coors and Miller merged their US brewing interested to form Miller-Coors. There is an SAB Miller, and Molson-Coors but now they have merged their US interests into Miller-Coors. In Mexico Modello brews beer. Anheuser-busch owns a large portion of that company as well.
My legislation outline is here:
Taxation is a major contributor to production costs of beer around the world. In the US there are three layers of government levying taxes on beer. In 1862 Congress placed the first excise tax on beer. The Federal rate is 18 dollars a barrel since the tax was doubled in 1990 after lobbying by anti-alcohol advocates. The Tax levied by states varies greatly across the US. The current average is 18.25 cents per gallon. Sales taxes also apply most states. In Wyoming the taxed rate is around 2 cents a gallon compared to Alaska at 1.07. The tax levies make a huge contribution to all levels of government and has a huge economic impact on the US.
I need to find some way of getting data on how difficult it was for craft brewers to start-up. Any ideas?