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Opinion divided on ACCC inaction

July 18, 2017 by Matt Kirkegaard

Not all small brewers have joined in the outpouring of anger at the ACCC’s finding tap contracts do not substantially lessen competition.

Category: Features Tagged: ACCC, contracts, Independent Brewers Australia, Mazen Hajjar, tap contracts

Contracts "unlikely to substantially lessen competition": ACCC

July 13, 2017 by Media Release

After a three-year investigation, Australia’s competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has found that tap contracts in the brewing industry are not anti-competitive.

Category: Features Tagged: ACCC, competition, contracts

Is the grass always greener?

April 30, 2013 by Matt Kirkegaard

As one medium-sized wine maker calls for the scrapping of the Wine Equalisation Tax ‘rort’ for distorting the wine market, it’s interesting to ponder whether there is such as thing as uniform good – or the colour of the grass – is determined by where you stand…

Category: Features Tagged: contracts, discussion, excise, WET

Killing beer softly…

February 15, 2011 by Matt Kirkegaard

Australia’s biggest brewers are so scared of losing market share they would rather see the beer market whither while tying hotels to exclusive tap contracts…

Category: Features Tagged: choice, competition, contracts, Fosters, James Squire, Lion Nathan National Foods, Matilda Bay, tap contracts

CUB claims the Reds, beer drinkers still get no choice

January 11, 2011 by Editor

Beer sponsorships don’t generally cause much of a stir at Australian Brews News, especially when it just involves one generic mid-strength lager substituted for another at the football. But Carlton & United Breweries’ snaring the sponsorship rights for the Queensland Reds, ending Lion Nathan/XXXX’s two decade association with Queensland Rugby, marks just how aggressive Australia’s… Read more →

Category: News Tagged: Carlton Mid, contracts, CUB, Fosters, Reds, sponsorships, tap contracts

Bruers Bright to hit the market

November 18, 2010 by Editor

It’s not been long since Pacific Beverage’s Bluetongue Brewery officially opened and a new beer has already hit the streets from the brewery. Called Bruers Bright, the beer is described as an “Australian style draught lager with a clean fresh aroma, a fruity individualistic palate and a soft bitter aftertaste”. It is a trial beer… Read more →

Category: News Tagged: Bluetongue, Bruers Bright, Coca Cola Amatil, contracts, Pacific Beverages, SABMiller

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