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Interesting Times: Changes for Brewing

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“May you live in interesting times” may have no authentic Chinese heritage, despite it being referred to as the Chinese Curse. Nonetheless it is a very apposite descriptor of the current state of the world’s brewing industry. At one extreme we have the mergers of major brewing concerns to become truly global operators, led by Anheuser-Busch InBev and SAB-Miller. At the other pole there is a multiplicity of small brewing companies springing up, almost daily in some countries, rejoicing in the umbrella terms “craft” or micro-breweries.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK

    Ignazio Cabras (Reader in Economics, Business and Management) (Reader in Economics, Business and Management)

  2. Newcastle University Business School, UK

    David Higgins (Professor in the Accounting and Finance Division) (Professor in the Accounting and Finance Division)

  3. university of Teesside, UK

    David Preece (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  4. university of Portsmouth, UK

    David Preece (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  5. university of Coventry, UK

    David Preece (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  6. university of Bradford, UK

    David Preece (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  7. university of Leeds, UK

    David Preece (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

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Bamforth, C.W., Cabras, I. (2016). Interesting Times: Changes for Brewing. In: Cabras, I., Higgins, D., Preece, D. (eds) Brewing, Beer and Pubs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137466181_2

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