Brewing Company Research Articles

Strategic expansion – Guinness Nigeria, management accounting information and upper echelons

ABSTRACT Research based on upper echelons theory has examined characteristics of top managers and their effects on accounting choices. In this paper, we show that management accounting information may influence the relationship between top manager characteristics and organizational outcomes. We draw on the historical case of the Guinness brewing company expanding operations to Nigeria in the 1960s. Our analysis of the case reveals some top manager characteristics of the Guinness board members signaled potential for a strategic choice to expand into Nigeria. However, the case also shows that the strategic choice to open a bottling plant was altered based on accounting information to instead build a brewery in Nigeria. This suggests a moderating role of management accounting information within the general framework of upper echelons theory.

Proposal for an epidemiological surveillance program for the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases in workers exposed to carbon dioxide (CO2) at a Venezuelan brewing company

Introduction: in manufacturing companies, specifically in the brewery, there are processes that involve the handling and use of chemical agents, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), this is the reason why workers are exposed to this agent. In the studied company, an accident was caused by exposure to this substance. Objective: to propose an epidemiological surveillance program for the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases in workers exposed to carbon dioxide (CO2) in a Venezuelan brewery. Methods: a qualitative-quantitative, field, descriptive, feasible project-type research was carried out, with the epidemiological surveillance program as the unit of analysis. Documentary review, direct observation and the interview were used as data collection techniques, and the observation guide, the sociodemographic form and the field diary were used as instruments. Results: the machine room has 18 workers, which shows that the workforce is composed of men over 40 years of age. Among the main causes of consultation of workers to the medical service are headache with 24,1 %, followed by fatigue with 20,6 % and then dizziness with 13,7 %. Conclusion: we propose an Epidemiological Surveillance Program aimed at machine room workers exposed to Carbon Dioxide (CO2), since there is no system that collects complete information on the working conditions and health of its workers, thus failing to comply with the legal framework governing the subject

Prevent Workers from Injuries in the Brewing Company via Using Digital Human Modelling Technology

A large percentage of musculoskeletal disorder cases occur in brewing companies. The aim of this research study is to evaluate the risk of injuries for workers in the local brewing industry by integrating the actual human motion, which was captured by the Xsens MVN Awinda motion tracking system, with the JACK Siemens ergonomics tools. This proposed fusion technology greatly overcomes the time-consuming issue in the traditionally full-body simulation and the posture sensitivity issue in the current digital human modelling (DHM) technology. In this study, the subjects performed a series of daily lifting tasks utilizing 72 kg kegs. The forces exerted on the lower back of brewery workers were fully analyzed. The maximum load applied on the hands for each of the tasks was also estimated to prevent workers from injuries. Additionally, the key factors that highly correlate to lower back injuries were emphasized. Due to the heavy load applied by the kegs, large spinal forces were exerted on the lower back of workers. Moreover, reducing trunk and hip flexion is also important to prevent workers from injuries. The results of this study can greatly improve the implementation of training techniques, environmental modifications, and assistive device design, which aim to eliminate injury risk and increase the productivity of workers within the breweries.

Dispatches from Kolob

Dispatches from Kolob

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Capitalism, Protectionism, and Beer Wars in Rock Island, 1880–1900

Capitalism, Protectionism, and Beer Wars in Rock Island, 1880–1900

Immigrant Birds

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“Using information to shape perception”: tobacco industry documents study of the evolution of Corporate Affairs in the Miller Brewing Company

BackgroundThe Miller Brewing Company (MBC) was wholly owned by Phillip Morris (PM), between 1970 and 2002. Tobacco industry document studies identify alliances between the alcohol and tobacco industries to counter U.S. policies in the 1980s and 1990s. This investigation sought to study in-depth inter-relationships between MBC and PM, with a particular focus on alcohol policy issues. We used the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents library to trace the evolution of corporate affairs and related alcohol policy orientated functions within and between MBC and PM.ResultsMBC was structured and led by PM senior executives from soon after takeover in 1970. Corporate Affairs sought to influence public perceptions of alcohol to align them with business interests. Alcohol education was specifically designed to prevent the adoption of policies inimical to those interests (e.g., raising excise taxes). Strategic consideration of alcohol policy issues was integrated within company-wide thinking, which sought to apply lessons from tobacco to alcohol and vice versa. PM directly led key alcohol industry organisations nationally and globally, which have successfully delayed the adoption and implementation of known effective policy measures in the U.S. and worldwide.ConclusionsPM has been a key architect of alcohol industry political strategies. This study builds on earlier work on alcohol companies in the tobacco documents, and offers historical data on how tobacco companies have used commercial involvements in other sectors to influence wider public health policy. We are only beginning to appreciate how multi-sectoral companies internally develop political strategies across product categories. Global health and national governmental policy-making needs to be better protected from business interests that fundamentally conflict with public health goals.

ABC Smart Coffee Maker: A Young Techno Start-Up

A team of three young entrepreneurs formed the Auroma Brewing Company (ABC) in November 2014 right after their graduation from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Their first product was a smart coffee maker which could brew coffee with high precision, allowing users to experiment with variations in the brew. After successfully raising funds online in January 2016, they moved to Shenzhen, China, to manufacture the device. The initially promised shipment date was August 2017, but—as of October 2017—the backer and pre-order buyers were still waiting for their smart coffee maker. The team had faced several obstacles in outsourcing parts to various manufacturers, which caused several delays in shipping the device to the backers who had supported their project through the crowdfunding platforms. After the first delay, about one-tenth of the backers withdrew their supports. After successive delays, the remaining backers became more agitated and questioned the team’s ability to deliver the smart coffee device successfully. Detecting the market potential of ABC’s device, a large company had proposed to acquire ABC’s technology. The team wondered whether they should accept the offer or if they should explore other opportunities.

MODEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MICRO FOUNDATIONS OF CSR IN CZECH BREWERY

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a term that is being defined very diversely. The goal of this research is to show how corporate social responsibility (CSR) is actually implemented and managed in business practice by the Czech brewery. The special emphasis is placed on employees, because they are the key to the company. The method chosen for the research is the micro-level analysis of employee perceptions, reactions, and attitudes towards the company’s CSR together with their determinants. The Model of psychological micro-foundations of CSR is used and, furthermore, the level of administrative employee CSR engagement in the CSR of a Czech brewing company is analyzed. The results show the determinants of this engagement or disengagement, the respondents’ perceptions and evaluation of the company’s CSR and finally, what are the outcomes of their reactions to the CSR of the company.

Research on Sustainability Reporting of Belarusian Brewing Company: On the Example of Alivaria Brewery

As sustainable development has been widely recognized as an essential topic in the continuous advancement of human history, a wide variety of organizations around the world, including companies, have integrated sustainability into their development paths. A typical example of the integration of sustainability with a company's growth path is the company's sustainability report (SR). However, notwithstanding more and more companies are joining the sustainability reporting cohort, the standards for reporting are not uniform and the quality of reporting is uneven, which ultimately affects the quality of the organizational sustainability and the sustainability of the world as a whole. The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature and extent of sustainability reporting practices of a brewing company located in Minsk, Belarus. Data were collected from the company’s latest 2019 SR. Deductive content analysis was used to analyse the data, and the coding scheme used for content analysis was developed based on indicators from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The results indicate a lack of disclosure of the SR of Belarusian brewing companies in terms of the content of biodiversity conservation and environmental complaint mechanisms. The results provide several practical implications for Belarusian brewing companies, regulators, and policymakers This study is one of the first to investigate the nature and extent of sustainability reporting practices in Belarusian brewing companies.

Structural Integrity of Polymeric Components Produced by Additive Manufacturing (AM)-Polymer Applications.

In the work presented herein, the structural integrity of polymeric functional components made of Nylon-645 and Polylactic acid (PLA) produced by additive manufacturing (Fused Deposition Modelling, FDM) is studied. The PLA component under study was selected from the production line of a brewing company, and it was redesigned and analyzed using the Finite Element Method, 3D printed, and installed under real service. The results obtained indicated that, even though the durability of the 3D printed part was lower than the original, savings of about EUR 7000 a year could be achieved for the component studied. Moreover, it was shown that widespread use of AM with other specific PLA components could result in even more significant savings. Additionally, a metallic hanger (2700 kg/m3) from the cockpit of an airplane ATR 70 series 500 was successfully redesigned and additively manufactured in Nylon 645, resulting in a mass reduction of approximately 60% while maintaining its fit-for-purpose. Therefore, the components produced by FDM were used as fully functional components rather than prototype models, which is frequently stated as a major constraint of the FDM process.

Beehive Brews: A Heady History of the Becker Brewing and Malting Company

Beehive Brews: A Heady History of the Becker Brewing and Malting Company

Chirotherium is a beer

The Lymm Brewing Company, UK, produces a beer named after the Triassic trackway Chirotherium Kaup, an unusual distinction for a trace fossil. On the brewery website Chirotherium is referred to as a dinosaur, whereas it is likely the spoor of a pseudosuchian archosaur. Further, rather than illustrating a track or trackway, the beer’s label shows a restoration of the producing archosaur.

The use of unconventional organic waste for vermicomposting in Surgut greenhouses

The paper discusses the use of non-traditional types of organic waste in vermicomposting in greenhouses on the territory of the middle taiga forest zone of Western Siberia. Experimental studies were carried out in the laboratories of the scientific and educational center and the center for collective use of the Institute of Natural and Technical Sciences of Surgut State University in 20012020. The main objects of the study were brewers grains, waste from the production of the Kristal brewing company in Surgut and wastewater sludge from the treatment facilities of the Gorvodokanal in Surgut. Additionally, the composition of complex composts included sand, office waste paper, waste coffee, food waste, leaf and grass litter, bird droppings and the microbiological additive Tamir. The compost worms of the Eisenia foetida Prospector species were used as vermiculture. 10 juveniles were launched in the first series of experiments and 50 juvenile worms were launched in the second series. The resulting vermicomposting is more effective in quality than the original substrates. The use of the hybrid Prospector can be effectively used in the disposal of non-traditional organic waste. Complex composts mature more efficiently when microbiological additives are added. In the studied substrates the content of heavy metals was reduced to MPC norms.

ОЦІНКА ВПЛИВУ КОРПОРАТИВНОЇ РЕПУТАЦІЇ НА КОНКУРЕНТОСПРОМОЖНІСТЬ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА

The article presents the conceptualization of corporate reputation and its connection with related concepts of corporate identity and image. According to our research, the reputation is the result of established long-term collective judgments of stakeholders about the company, formed on the basis of its unique characteristics in order to ensure the competitiveness of the enterprise. The purpose of the present research is to develop an analysis of the relationship between competitiveness and corporate reputation on the example of a brewing company in Ukraine. The empirical component of the study is the analysis of the relationship between corporate reputation, according to the national rating on corporate reputation management, and enterprise competitiveness on the example of one of the leading companies in the Ukrainian brewing industry — Carlsberg Ukraine, which belongs to the Danish brewing group - Carlsberg Group. The assessment of the impact of corporate reputation rating on the competitiveness of enterprises was determined on the basis of the author's models of correlation-regression relationship. And for the analysis of reputation, the data of the Ukrainian national rating on quality of management of corporate reputation “Reputational Activists” were used. The results of the analysis allowed us to check the level of autocorrelation, determined using the Darbin-Watson test, which shows that autocorrelation is quite moderate. The pairwise correlation coefficient indicates an insufficiently close relationship between corporate reputation and enterprise competitiveness. According to calculations, the dynamics of the company's competitiveness can be explained by the dynamics of corporate reputation by 24.86%. Such results are evidence that corporate identity and corporate reputation have significant reserves of theoretical and practical nature of development and improvement to influence the efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises and products.

Singing Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multimodal Analysis of the 2018 Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial

The 2018 Super Bowl Commercial of the Budweiser Beer is entitled “Stand by You” and revolves around the pluriannual Water Donation Program of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company. The video features images of the employees of the Budweiser Cartersville, GA brewery organizing the emergency drinking water delivery with the help of American Red Cross, its partner in such disaster-relief efforts over the past 30 years. The images are accompanied by a cover of the 1961 Ben E. King iconic song “Stand by me”. Adopting a socio-semiotic multimodal perspective, the paper aims at analyzing the meaning-making construction of the video in its YouTube contextualization. In detail, the focus of the paper is to understand how the sound and the lyrics of the cover, with their cultural, linguistic and semiotic layers of meaning, constitute the semiotic entry point in the narration and create the soundscape for the framing of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Devils Backbone Brewing: Integrated Independence?

This case presents a scenario wherein Hayes Humphreys, the Chief Operating Officer of Devils Backbone Brewing Company (DBB), has just attended a quarterly summit held by Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) for all 12 of the North American craft breweries in its High End business unit. It is the summer of 2018, and Humphreys has had over a year and a half to observe DBB's evolution since its acquisition by Belgium-headquartered ABI in 2016. Through interviews with Humphreys and other members of DBB's management team, the case introduces students to ABI's selective approach to integrating the Virginia-based craft brewery into the High End over the first 20 months following the corporate integration, while also asking them to consider the High End's strategic direction and future. Following this introduction to the ABI-DBB integration, the cases asks students to consider the following: Where did DBB feel the most changes due to ABI's ownership? Where did DBB benefit the most from being an ABI brewery, and where did it feel the pain of bureaucracy most acutely? What new strengths and opportunities did DBB most benefit from thanks to ABI, and where would challenges exist in the future? Excerpt UVA-OM-1616 Jan. 22, 2020 Devils Backbone Brewing: Integrated Independence? [The Anheuser-Busch InBev acquisition will give us] strategic knowledge and information and help...to continue to grow our brewery in the direction that we have always wanted to grow...[Devils Backbone Brewing will maintain] a high level of autonomy and continue its own authentic DNA within [ABI's High End unit]. —Steve Crandall, founder, Devils Backbone Brewing Hayes Humphreys, chief operating officer of Devils Backbone Brewing Company (DBB), was traveling home to Charlottesville, Virginia, in June 2018, from the most recent quarterly summit held by Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) for all 12 of the North American craft breweries in its High End business unit. Humphreys, who had joined DBB in 2011 and witnessed the company's evolution following its acquisition by Belgium-headquartered ABI in 2016, reflected on the progress that had been made in integrating the Virginia-based craft brewery into ABI's High End business unit over the past 20 months. Indeed, during his first year in the ABI universe, the focus of the quarterly summits for ABI's craft breweries seemed to be strictly on integrating the businesses into the ABI ecosystem; but in recent months, with the bulk of integration behind them, the focus had changed to the High End unit's strategic direction and the future. . . .

Craft Beer's Unlikely Alchemist

In 1965, Frederick (Fritz) Maytag III began a decades-long revitalization of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California. This was an unexpected venture from an unlikely brewer; for generations, Maytag's family had run the Maytag Washing Machine Company in Iowa and he had no training in brewing. Yet Maytag's career at Anchor initiated a phenomenal wave of growth in the American brewing industry that came to be known as the microbrewing—now “craft beer”—revolution. To understand Maytag's path, this article draws on original oral histories and artifacts that Maytag donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History via the American Brewing History Initiative, a project to document the history of brewing in the United States. The objects and reflections that Maytag shared with the museum revealed a surprising link between the birth of microbrewing and the strategies and culture of mass manufacturing. Even if the hallmarks of microbrewing—a small-scale, artisan approach to making beer—began as a backlash against the mass-produced system of large breweries, they relied on Maytag's early, intimate connections to the assembly-line world of the Maytag Company and the alchemy of intellectual curiosity, socioeconomic privilege, and risk tolerance with which his history equipped him.

Advertising for Beer: Local Identity and the Klondike Brewery, 1900–1920

First published advance onlineOctober 1, 2019Yukon entrepreneur Thomas O’Brien opened the O’Brien Brewing and Malting Company, better known as the Klondike Brewery, in Klondike City in 1904, after the population of Dawson City had dramatically declined following the end of the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899). O’Brien’s decision to open a new business following the gold rush reflected his hope that Dawson would continue to develop and modernize, and O’Brien intended to be part of this growth. The Klondike Brewery operated from 1904 to 1919 and was the first brewery in northern Canada. Local newspapers—the Yukon Sun and the Dawson Daily News—frequently reported on the progress and activities of the brewery during its construction and operation, and O’Brien took advantage of the media to advertise his products. He used both his brewery and its promotion to highlight not only what was special about his products, but also what he believed Dawson’s future could be. These ads emphasized the beer’s homegrown origins, they celebrated Klondike beer using Klondike cultural imagery, and they emphasized the brewery’s modern nature. O’Brien not only sold beer, but he sold an idea to those who remained after the rush. We argue that the ways in which O’Brien branded and marketed his products, specifically his beer, tapped into a developing sense of local cultural identity among the post-gold-rush settler population in Dawson City, and that O’Brien used his brewery to shape his idea of Dawson’s potential future.