TOP 40 BREWERIES
Mergers & acquisitions
There was continued activity on the mergers and
acquisitions front. In Mexico, Modelo was taken
over completely by AB InBev. In China, market
consolidation increased sharply: Carlsberg won
complete control of the brewery group Chongqing,
and China Resources Snow Breweries (CRB)
took over Kingway, while AB InBev acquired the
Siping Ginsber brewery in spring 2014. As a result
of this takeover wave, the Chinese market is now also
highly consolidated; together, five brewery groups
(CRB, Tsingtao, Ab Inbev China, Yanjing and
Carlsberg) have a combined market share of 68 %.
Cervecería Regional (Venezuela), Warsteiner
(Germany) and Lan Bei Beer Co., Ltd. (China) have
now entered the list of the world’s top 40 breweries.
The world’s 40 biggest brewery groups as at 31 December 2013
Ranking
Brewery
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
AB InBev
SABMiller 1)
Heineken
Carlsberg
China Res. Snow Breweries (CRB)
Tsingtao Brewery Group
Molson-Coors
Yanjing
Kirin
BGI/Groupe Castel
Efes Group
Asahi
Gold Star
Diageo (Guinness)
Polar
San Miguel Corporation
Singha Corporation
Petropolis
Oriental Brewery
Saigon Beverage Corp. (SABECO)
Grupo Mahou - San Miguel
Radeberger Gruppe
Pearl River
CCU
United Brewery
Oettinger
Damm
Hite
Suntory
Obolon
Bitburger Braugruppe
Sapporo
Krombacher
Hanoi Beverge Corp. (HABECO)
Beer Thai (Chang)
Brau Holding International
Cervecería Regional
SiPing Ginsber Brewery
Warsteiner
Lan Bei Beer Co., Ltd.
Country
Belgium
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Denmark
China
China
USA/Canada
China
Japan
France
Turkey
Japan
China
Ireland
Venezuela
Philippines
Thailand
Brazil
South Korea
Vietnam
Spain
Germany
China
Chile
India
Germany
Spain
South Korea
Japan
Ukraine
Germany
Japan
Germany
Vietnam
Thailand
Germany
Venezuela
China
Germany
China
Beer output
2013 in mill. hl
Share of world
beer production
399.0
187.4
178.3
119.7
117.1
78.3
59.7
57.1
49.3
28.4
25.5
20.6
19.5
18.5
18.5
16.3
15.8
15.0
13.4
13.3
12.0
11.8
11.2
10.7
10.1
9.8
8.5
8.1
8.1
7.8
7.5
6.6
6.6
6.2
6.0
5.5
5.2
4.9
4.6
4.2
20.2 %
9.5 %
9.0 %
6.1 %
5.9 %
4.0 %
3.0 %
2.9 %
2.5 %
1.4 %
1.3 %
1.0 %
1.0 %
0.9 %
0.9 %
0.8 %
0.8 %
0.8 %
0.7 %
0.7 %
0.6 %
0.6 %
0.6 %
0.5 %
0.5 %
0.5 %
0.4 %
0.4 %
0.4 %
0.4 %
0.4 %
0.3 %
0.3 %
0.3 %
0.3 %
0.3 %
0.3 %
0.2 %
0.2 %
0.2 %
TOTAL
1,606.1
81.4 %
World beer production 2013
1,973.0
100.0 %
The data were taken from the
brewers’ own annual reports.
In other cases, the production
volume had to be estimated
after different sources had
reported differing figures, or
where no figures were available.
1) Not including the 57.4m
hl from shareholding in China
Resources Snow Breweries.
Hops 13/14
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