Breweries Ltd Research Articles

Does Privatisation Improve Financial and Operating Performance of a Firm? The Case of Tanzania Breweries Ltd

Does Privatisation Improve Financial and Operating Performance of a Firm? The Case of Tanzania Breweries Ltd

Analysis of the effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility in brand marketing with AAKER Brand Equity and Daisy Wheel Models

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have a great capacity to influence society to create that good brand equity. In light of this, many organizations now have ardent reputation in promoting CSR activities in the interest of society. Through review of related studies and survey questionnaires to both staff and customers of Accra Breweries Ltd (ABL), this paper sought to broadly analyze the effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility on Brand Marketing with emphasis on the use of Aaker Brand Equity and Daisy Wheel Models. Specifically, the study aimed at identifying the factors that influence involvement in CSR activities by corporations; and the influence CSR grants have on the public perception and brand marketing. The study employed primary data and secondary data sources. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 20 senior/middle staff and 40 customers of ABL. The findings revealed that, CSR programmes are community-focus initiatives, involves programmes on education as well as health programmes in developing communities. The study therefore concluded that, CSR activities go a long way to build a solid brand identity and equity as in the case of ABL. It is therefore recommended that CSR initiative should engage all stakeholders who are mostly affected to help tailor CSR activities to solve societal needs.

Registered designs as source identifiers and availability of common law remedies during infringement proceedings—exposition of the law in India

While dismissing a series of suits filed by CROCS INC USA inCrocs Inc USA v Aqualite India Ltd and Anr,1 a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice Endlaw refused to impose costs on the plaintiff, reasoning: It cannot be said that the plaintiff was not bona fide agitating its rights on the ground of passing off. Law indeed on the subject was in a state of flux. All counsels have argued on the premise of Mohan Lal supra permitting an action for passing off in respect of a registered design. This indeed is the general impression held by nearly all. Clarity and certainty has emerged only from Carlsberg Breweries supra and from reading of reasons … for conclusions reached by majority in … Mohan Lal supra which are indeed widely worded. Thus, no costs. (Emphasis added). Most design attorneys, however, would feel rather constrained to agree with J Endlaw. To identify (and then justify) the finite contours of the ratio laid down by the five judges special bench of the Delhi High Court in Carlsberg Breweries A/S v Som Distilleries and Breweries Ltd,2 presents a miasma of a challenge.

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In 2000, Uganda instituted a tax rebate of 10 to 15% to industries willing to use locally sourced raw materials. This attracted Nile Breweries Ltd (NBL) to start using locally produced sorghum for beer production in 2002 and intervened in the sorghum value chain through mobilization of farmers into producer groups, established bulking centers and appointed buying agents. Despite these interventions, some farmers still sell their sorghum individually to open markets, hence limiting the volumes of sorghum sold through collection centers and eventually to the breweries. This study explored the marketing arrangements of sorghum farmers in Oyam district and their influence on marketable surplus. Using a cross sectional household survey, data were obtained from a random sample of 150 farmers in four major sorghum growing sub counties of Loro, Iceme, Acaba and Aber. T-tests and chi-square tests were used to determine the relationship between socio-economic and farm specific factors and marketing arrangements, and a two-step Heckman procedure was used to ascertain the determinants of collective marketing and the influence of collective marketing on marketable surplus. Chi-square results showed that gender of the household head, marital status, and road type significantly correlated with marketing arrangements while T-test results showed that distances to inputs and buyers significantly influenced marketing arrangements. From the two-step Heckman procedure, the Probit model showed that buyer distance and sales income significantly influenced the probability of collective marketing while the OLS model in the second step showed that marketable surplus significantly increased with input access, and selling price. Sorghum farmers in Oyam district can potentially increase their sorghum marketable surpluses and reduce rural poverty if they fully participate in collective marketing, access inputs and negotiate for better sorghum price with the breweries. Therefore, agri-businesses and policy makers should promote and enhance collective marketing to improve sorghum marketing in Uganda. Keys words: Sorghum farmers, socio-economic characteristics, collective marketing and marketable surplus.

Heineken's Acquisition of Asia Pacific Breweries: Accounting for Business Combinations and Changes in Ownership Interests

ABSTRACT On July 20, 2012, Heineken, a Dutch brewery offered S$5.125 billion (Singapore dollars; approximately US$4.1 billion) to buy Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd (APB; formerly, Malayan Breweries Limited) from its Singapore-based joint venture partner, Fraser and Neave, Limited. (F&N). At that point, Heineken and F&N had joint control over APB through the joint venture vehicle Asia Pacific Investments Pte Ltd (APIPL). Brewery business under the joint arrangement had moved on quite predictably from the time APB was formed in 1931. However, the calm changed to high drama when Thai Beverage, owned by one of Thailand's tycoons, made a bid for F&N and APB. Heineken was quick to respond by aggressively buying shares of APB, leading to a large control premium being paid in the final offer price. The bidding war was largely motivated by the Dutch and Thai beer giants, each wanting to own the iconic Tiger beer brand that was owned by APB and thus take control of APB's strong market share in the fast-growing market of Asia. The Heineken bid for APB presents an interesting case study regarding the motivations for acquisitions, the nature of control, and accounting for acquisitions. The case also presents rich issues in accounting for changes in ownership interests with and without gain of control.

THE BRANDED ARENA: UGANDAN ‘TRADITIONAL’ DANCE IN THE MARKETING ERA

ABSTRACTBrand marketing in its latest global advances offers ideologies of public participation and the audience–‘provider’ relationship that many in the developing world are finding compelling, even when consumer capitalism fails to produce its promised rewards immediately. Strategies of ‘branding’ are being explored in combination with older performance strategies, with new syncretic branded arenas emerging as a result. In Africa, music and dance have always been important for establishing certain arenas and mediating transactions within them. In the era of post-independence nationalism, ‘traditional’ dances were itemized and made more disciplined and spectacular to give new states an aura of inclusiveness, rigour and historical depth. As the image of a powerful African state declines, these same dance traditions are being hitched to commercial brands, and to the globalized consumerist/entreprenurial dream. This article considers the Senator National Cultural Extravaganza, an annual traditional music-and-dance competition sponsored by East Africa Breweries Ltd, which requires participants to compose ‘local’ songs and dances in praise of Senator Extra Lager. It focuses on the spatial and temporal architectures of events and the way these channel, and are complicated by, the energies and significances of dance. The ‘textbook’ brand–consumer relationship does not, it is argued, survive wholly intact.

Collective bargaining: a tool for industrial harmony in Ghanaian industrial settings

Collective bargaining has been recognised in almost all industrial settings as the most civilised way of resolving industrial conflicts and disagreements. The main objective of this paper is to determine the extent to which collective bargaining can effectively minimise industrial conflicts in Ghana, with particular reference to the brewery industry in Ghana. It is a means of helping to foster cordial management-labour relationships towards industrial harmony. The study was carried out with a focus on Ghana Breweries Ltd. The results of the study show that collective bargaining is a powerful and effective tool that can be used to minimise industrial conflicts and disagreements in industrial establishments. It is therefore recommended that employers should encourage the formation of trade unions to promote collective bargaining. It is further recommended that both management and labour should recognise collective bargaining as an effective tool for resolving conflicts and disagreements at the workplace.

Conversation with Juha Partanen

Conversation with Juha Partanen

Hegedis v Carlton & United Breweries Ltd and Another

Hegedis v Carlton & United Breweries Ltd and Another

5585271 Yeast agglutination genes and yeast containing them : Watari Junji; Takata Yoshihiro; Ogawa Masahiro; Penttila Merja; Onnela Maija-Leen; Keranen Sirkka Yaizu, Japan Assigned to Sapporo Breweries Ltd; Oy Panimolaboratorio-Bryggerilaboratorium

5585271 Yeast agglutination genes and yeast containing them : Watari Junji; Takata Yoshihiro; Ogawa Masahiro; Penttila Merja; Onnela Maija-Leen; Keranen Sirkka Yaizu, Japan Assigned to Sapporo Breweries Ltd; Oy Panimolaboratorio-Bryggerilaboratorium

Effects of brewery effluent on agricultural soil and crop plants

The physico-chemical properties of effluent from Mohan Meakin Breweries Ltd, Ghaziabad, UP, India (MMBL) have been determined, and its effects, directly on fertile soil and indirectly on wheat Triticum aestivum and pea Pisum sativum crops, have been studied. The effluent was found to be acidic in nature, and had high BOD and COD due to the presence of large amounts of solids. The effluent was rich in ammonia-nitrogen, nitrate-nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, so that its application to the soil increased the values of available nutrients in the soil. The upper soil had high values of N, P, K and organic matter compared with the lower soil in the pots used. The highest perturbance was observed in the available potassium of the soil, when 100% effluent was used for irrigation followed by 75%, 50% and 25%, and the values of organic matter, ammonia-nitrogen and phosphorus also increased significantly. The pH of the soil decreased gradually with increasing concentration of the effluent. Depletion was noted in the CaCO 3 content of the soil irrigated with 100% and 75% effluent, while it increased with 50% and 25% effluent. The germination of pea and wheat seeds was restricted to 80% and 90%, respectively, when 100% effluent was used for irrigation; whereas germination was quick with 50% and 25% effluent. The growth of the plants was slow with 100% effluent while it was enhanced by using 50% effluent for irrigation.

Capital allowances on plant and machinery in buildings

So much has been written in recent years about industrial buildings allowance that it would be a rare thing if anyone involved in property overlooked them. It is less widely realised, however, that a significant part of the expenditure on most modern buildings, both industrial and commercial, qualifies for capital allowances on plant and machinery. 1982 saw two important decisions of the House of Lords — Cole Brothers Ltd v Phillips and CIR v Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd — in which the scope of what is included in the term ‘plant’ was reviewed (reports of these cases appear in this issue) and these and other interpretations by the courts will be considered here.

Diagnostic Skills Training and Action Learning

During the last 18 months a novel approach to developing production and engineering managers within their own jobs has been created jointly by the Beer Division of Allied Breweries Ltd and the Food Drink and Tobacco Industry Training Board. The approach has been developed by providing formal training in diagnostic skills with in‐company training based on action learning principles. The aim of the training programme is to allow greater plant utilisation and to help to reduce the cost of downtime on each of its operating company sites by encouraging the production and engineering managers who attended the programme to train their own staff.

Diagnostic Skills Training and Action Learning

During the last 18 months a novel approach to developing production and engineering managers within their own jobs has been created jointly by the Beer Division of Allied Breweries Ltd and the Food Drink and Tobacco Industry Training Board. The approach has been developed by providing formal training in diagnostic skills with in‐company training based on action learning principles. The aim of the training programme is to allow greater plant utilisation and to help to reduce the cost of downtime on each of its operating company sites by encouraging the production and engineering managers who attended the programme to train their own staff.