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    Industry Shipments: 2007 vs 2006
    Major Supplier Shipments and Share:2006 vs 2005
    Industry Shipments and Trends, 1996-2007
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    Top Brands Shipments and Share: 2004-2006
    Small/Specialty Brewer Shipments, 2002-2006
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    Costco Decision: Big Win! Appeals Court Reverses Lower Court for Most Part

    US Appeals Court sez "we reverse the judgment" of Dist Court that "held most of Washington's restraints on the sale of beer and wine were hybrid restraints subject to preemption under the Sherman Act." That's a big win for state and distribs. But Appeals Court affirms that Wash "post and hold" scheme is a "hybrid restraint" that is "not saved by the state immunity doctrine or the Twenty First Amendment." And also affirms rejection of Costco's challenge to retailer-to-retailer sales ban. Click here to read the full decision.

    • Mandatory Carding For Beer Scaled Back in Tennessee



    Gov. Phil Bredesen signed a bill into law which scales back Tennessee's mandatory carding of anyone purchasing beer regardless of their age. Tennessee was first and only state in US to require carding of any purchaser at retail. Bars and restaurants were excluded from provision. New law now only requires retailers to ask for ID from people "who appear to be younger than 50 years old," reported AP. Oddly, liquor and wine sales were never regulated by stringent law as they are regulated by the state while beer is regulated by local counties and towns.

    Consumer Beer Prices Tracking Inflation So Far in 08



    Consumer price index for beer up 4% Jan-Apr, according to govt data. That's just behind 4.1% increase in CPI for all items. We report 4-month avg; month-to-month increases just slightly higher Jan-Feb than Mar-Apr for both indexes. Meanwhile, wine and spirits price lagging inflation. Consumer prices for spirits up just 1.8% for 4 mos. Wine prices up 2.7%.

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    Beer Marketer's INSIGHTS Coors Gained 1 Mil Bbls in US Apples-to-Apples in 07; STRs Up “High Singles” in Early 08 (02-25-2008)
    Beer Marketer's INSIGHTS Heineken/Carlsberg Buy of S&N Is Biggest Global $$ Deal Yet; Massive Landgrabs Since 02 (02-11-2008)

    INSIGHTS Express A Brief History of AB and High End (04-01-2008)
    INSIGHTS Express Now Craft Begins to Slow as Prices Escalate; Imports Stay Sluggish (03-24-2008)

    Alcohol Issues INSIGHTS Alcohol Policy 14; Messages are Mixed and Diffuse, Changes Small and Local (02-15-2008)

    Beer Biz Snapshot: 2007 Shipments Review - Top Suppliers

    Click here for our current estimates of 2006-2007 US beer industry shipments by the top 6 suppliers.

     

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